how's it going you guys it's Scott with everyday home repairs now today I'm going to be installing a smart sub panel specifically called the smart panel 2 from ecoflow I really haven't seen many panels like this in the past and it has some really cool features specifically I think this might be one of the best ways to get into solar and start offsetting your monthly power bills without spending 20 3040 or $50,000 especially because we're being bringing solar in and also have battery capacity storage that we could use at night during a power outage there's some really neat things and I'm going to have my buddy Joel Walman from Jefferson Electric out of Indianapolis Indiana walking us through how to install this because although you know I love DIY I do most things by myself DIY on this install most of us would turn to a trusted partner in our area so let's jump through it we'll go through the install quickly Joel will be tying this into a 200 amp squd qo main panel and then I'll show you all the cool features at the end and really why I'm installing this at the house which I'm really excited to get up and running now kicking things off you'd want to know what circuits you want to bring over to the sub panel these would probably be your critical circuits that you'd want to power in pretty much any scenario you can see a bunch of white spaghetti wires going everywhere in my main Square dqo panel that is an Emporia energy monitoring system and it basically indicates the circuits that I want to bring over so once you know that you can start to get the plan on where do we want to locate the sub panel which Joel's putting in here and connecting with an inch and a qu PVC at the bottom that will be bringing in our main conductors to feed 100 amps from the main panel to this smart panel too and then he's just starting to relocate those he's bringing the Romax out for the four 120 volt circuits and then the two two 240 volt circuits so this is not a critical loads panel where you pass the wires to the critical loads panel and you pass them back this one we're actually just going to be landing these circuits 410s and 2240s over in the smart panel to to do this you can see the two metal junction boxes those are 4x4s and 4 and 1116 deep so they have some capacity in there and Joel's putting in the cable clamps and then starting to land those circuits that we just pulled out of the main panel Landing those in one of the two different junction boxes then once he has those all landed he'll start to cut out our holes that will install clamps in at the top because this is a weather sealed subpanel you have to cut the holes in it so there are no Knockouts in the top of this so we'll cut six holes in the top and then put six corresponding cable clamps one for each of the circuits nice thing is this also gives me some additional capability later on if I want to bring in 1 2 3 four more circuits to fill out this entire smart sub panel I will have that because I can double up on each of these cable clamps so now you'll start to see Joel really Landing those wires into the sub panel and then bringing those back up to the junction box where we'll tie those into the existing wires that were already in place this is going to be the majority of your work and you actually want to plan of attack it's nice obviously you see we're going from kind of a spaghetti mess on the main panel and Joel's actually taking his time and really doing a professional job routing the different circuits within the panel and he'll also be doing a great job routing it within the panel just keeping everything clean which is is by far the way you'd want to go now for Breakers the breakers here you have Flex flexibility you can use pretty much any of the top brands you cannot use squ dql I will be using squd homeline this is a big Advantage I think this is a huge advantage of this this system where you're not using like an ecoflow proprietary uh component you have flexibility to buy off the shelf now once you have your Breakers you can start to cut your wires to length your neutrals and grounds Landing those we're going to drill out here and this is going to be the generator Inlet so you'll see that gray flexible tube goes to this 30 an generator Inlet from the outside and then that will just be the liquid tight tube that will bring it it through the top of that smart panel remember this can be both fed from 100 amps from grid so it's going to be 100 amp subpanel but it also can be fed from a generator that generator can provide Power to your home or it can charge your batteries if the batteries are providing the power so it is a super flexible system and extremely handy to have especially in a power out scenario last up we'll go ahead and land those largest of conductors and that's going to bring in the final circuit and that circuit is the 100 amps coming from the main panel feeding over to the sub panel so Joel's basically complete on the installation you saw all those different components really it's about as simple as a sub panel that you would install without the brains of the smart panel 2 from eof flow now one of the key benefits is really integrating this into the Delta Pro Ultra unit and the Delta Pro Ultra units capability to bring up to 5.6 KW worth of solar power now I don't have that much installed but I do have six panels already installed let me show you that installation just so you can compare it if you're considering something that your house as well so the setup on this property I have six 360 W Helen panels mounted on this detached garage roof this detached garage is actually off grid I'm powering that with two Delta Pros in the Dual voltage Hub and just doing a bunch of different projects on everyday solar now I do have inch and a half PVC conduit sunk 24 in in the ground and running over to this side of the property where goes into the house so I have the inch and a half coming out to an lb where I could pull the solar wires through and then going into the basement that location is right at the Smart panel 2 and then I bring those PV wires down into mc4 connectors and that goes into the high voltage side of the Delta Pro Ultra and as we talked about from Eco Flo's perspective this should really be left up to the professionals now it's up to you obviously where you live and your skill level if you want to take this on as a DIY project honestly again it's about the level of a subpanel some people would tell you that is completely in the Pro camp and others are comfortable doing that DIY so I'll leave that decision up to you but I do want to get Joel's feedback a number of you are going to need to get this installed so I want to get his feedback on how long he thinks this would take so you can base pricing that you get from your local service provider to what Joel just experienced installing the smart panel 2 so you guys saw Joel jumping around installing a bunch of wires this is Joel from both Jefferson Electric out of Indianapolis Indiana and electric Pro Academy I'm sure you guys probably saw his YouTube channel before Joel's been on everyday home repairs about four times in the past and has done some great work so what did you think overall you're just finishing up the install about how long does it take what would somebody expect so they can base some like pricing off of it I'm incredibly happy at how straightforward this says I spent about 10 minutes looking over the instruction manual for the first time this is my first run with the panel like you said just like a standard sub panel three tools to install Plug and Play that's kind of ecoflow for you it's a no-brainer DIY friendly solution yeah if you're just big Advantage with the breakers right so now you're not dealing with like proprietary relays on the smart panel one now you can go down Home Depot lows maybe have a nards in your area and get the circuits that you need for those so that to me that's a huge Advantage it's fantastic it's fantastic just to install the panel you're probably looking at about three labor hours to relocate your circuits maybe four or five if you're filling up all 16 spaces you might run into a little extra time required if you're flush mounting the panel which is capable of with a 14 1/2 in standard width which would fit in any 16 on Center stud bit that's a great design feature uh if you have got to relocate the battery box maybe an hour or two generator Inlet depending on what you're doing with solar so we just have some PV wires coming in here depending on what that set up that can be different for everyone obviously so yeah so full days work one man that's right okay yep full day one man start to finish all your sources of power it's pretty great so all in really we don't know quite yet i' say from a hardware perspective with smart panel 2 and the eof flow Delta Pro Ultra you're probably in the $1 to 11,000 range and then what do you think on labor that obviously varies around the country but stack on another 2,000 3,000 on top of that yeah typically electricians are going to want to make anywhere from 1,000 to $2,000 per day with all the incidental materials that they may be providing you know the bits and pieces y so she looks pretty on the wall but we haven't really done anything yet so let's go ahead and connect up the Delta Pro Ultra so we we have battery capability and we landed some 240 circuits here one is the condenser unit outside for a Mr Cool Unit A Duct unit I installed not too long ago and then one's the 15 amp unit for the air handler inside so we can load this up right now and see how much we can actually put through that battery and then we'll show you some of the features it might not be clear quite yet but you have quite a few different things you can do here you got grid tide 100 amp grid tide you have a generator in with an interlock am I feeding from the generator side or am I feeding from my main panel and grid power and then obviously the battery part of it do I want to supply power to those circuits from the battery or do I want it from the Grid or do I want it from the generator so a lot of stuff going on a lot of flexibility I say we get everything hooked up and powered up that sounds great so now we have everything plugged up and I'm actually running the HVAC system off the ecoflow Delta Pro Ultra down here here the way you connect it up is a proprietary cable from ecoflow that goes directly from the output of this top section which is the smarts the inverter and all your inputs and outputs that will connect up to one of the three inputs of the smart panel to expandability on the system is impressive so I have one battery underneath the top section that battery has 6 kilowatt hours you can stack a total of five batteries under each one of these just know this thing's pretty darn heavy you're talking about 880 lb for the top section and 116 lb for each of these bottom battery sections so at 30 kilowatt hours isn't enough for you you could expand it don't forget you have two more ports so technically this unit here The Spar panel 2 can bring in a total of 90 kwatt hours of capability if you wanted to expand out all the way to the extent of the system now it just got dark out so my solar is basically at zero but I am producing about 17 00 WT and I'm providing the power to the HVAC system currently for this system I really want to exercise it now at this rate this system would only last about 3 hours of battery power now I can charge it right from the grid if I wanted to so you have a bunch of capabilities with this system to adjust it maybe you want to feed the power from Battery during a time of day where you're getting charged higher rates for electricity you have that capability here and it's really all just configured through throughout your phone so on the app we can see what are we bringing from the grid which is zero what are we feeding from our battery that's a 87% and that is 1.66 Kow and basically then providing that all to the home that's shown on the right hand side and then below you'll get some different charts over time to see historically what have we been doing in terms of the whole homes consumption what came from the grid what came from the battery and then even the generator if we're using the generator you can flip over to the circuits page and that's really going to give you your breakdown of how we configured this so during the setup and during the commissioning of your smart panel 2 you'll combine 120 circuits if you have a 240 circuit in there like my Mr Cool air handler or my Mr Cool condenser and then that gives you your configuration and that's how you monitor the system in terms of each of the circuits what are we putting out currently for power and then you can also look across historically as well now there are a ton of more features on the actual ecoflow app and I won't dive into all those today that will be a separate video where we'll show all the different features but just know you can configure different tasks different times of day does it repeat weekly does it repeat daily do I want it coming from battery do I want it coming from the grid there's a lot of configuration there that you can do so we can adjust it to each of our applications now if you want to know a lot more about the ultra unit it's myself I did a deep dive over on everyday solar my other YouTube channel so check out this video right here and you'll see all the specifications and some of the use cases for the ultra it is a really cool unit if you need more details on the smart panel 2 installation Joel has that video over on his channel electric Pro Academy and you can check that one out right here so thanks for joining me on this video and we'll catch you on one of those two videos take care