Inverter or inverter/charger

[PhilT]

I see SolarEdge have an all-in-one Inverter/charger available, very interesting, what are people's views on the pros and cons vs separate units?

[PeterW]

4 minutes ago, PhilT said:

I see SolarEdge have an all-in-one Inverter/charger available, very interesting, what are people's views on the pros and cons vs separate units?

only normally used for island installs and things such as boats etc as it is designed for lead acid stacks

[PhilT]

54 minutes ago, PeterW said:

only normally used for island installs and things such as boats etc as it is designed for lead acid stacks

R u sure? This is the link I saw https://www.solaredge.com/uk/products/ev-charger#/

[PeterW]

Ok that’s an EV charger - thought you meant battery charger - and a different beast to what they used to sell - also needs a car that will talk to it, and also some element of minimum charge as a lot of the EVs need about 1.5kW from memory to even start charging. 

[PhilT]

It makes the "future proofing" decisions harder, as getting just the inverter first would allow the addition of a V2x device later. Hopefully we won't have to wait to much longer for that!