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\"Potatoes

If only home batteries were this simple<\/p><\/div>\n

Today’s post explains that no matter how hard you pedal, if you take two wheels off your tricycle, it won’t go anywhere.<\/p>\n

In other words, a single-phase battery won’t power a three-phase appliance.<\/p>\n

So whether you have a large ducted air conditioner<\/a>, medium-sized bakery machinery or small industrial roller door, the most common battery backup systems simply can’t run a synchronous 3-phase load.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there are always some exceptions I’ll detail later…<\/p>\n

What The Hell Is Three Phase?<\/h2>\n

You may have heard people mention electricity in phases<\/em>.<\/a> They’re talking about whether you have 1, 2 or 3 active supplies coming from the street. While almost everything inside your house runs on single phase, there may be a few big-ticket items, like air conditioning<\/a> or EV chargers<\/a>, using all three supplies; they’re 3 phase appliances.<\/p>\n

It’s one of the first things a savvy solar salesperson will ask you, and to help answer the question, we put together this handy guide<\/a> in our even handier FAQ section.<\/a><\/p>\n

We should rename it the CAQ for Commonly Answered<\/em> Questions because these aren’t inane filler for a website. They are real queries from real people we wrote real answers for.<\/p>\n

Single Phase Batteries Are Easy.<\/h2>\n

Market leaders like Fronius, Sungrow & GoodWe all offer very solid grid-connect solar battery systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Single-phase offerings cover the broadest variety of models and brands. In fact, top-quality brands like Enphase batteries<\/a> and Tesla Powerwalls don’t offer three-phase units at all.<\/p>\n

The primary advantage of a single-phase battery-backed system is good power surge capacity. Whatever the specified capacity, all of the firepower is aimed at one output, which is important when you’re trying to start a motor like a fridge compressor or rainwater pump.<\/p>\n

To be honest, most people with a 3-phase home will be quite happy only backing up a single “essential” phase during an outage.<\/p>\n

\"graphic

Single-phase has a single AC wave<\/p><\/div>\n

Three Phase Batteries Are Less Common.<\/h2>\n

While they used to be quite rare, as we recently outlined a much broader range of three phase hybrid inverters is now available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Generally, people don’t want to back up three-phase appliances. They are, by nature, large energy users for which you’d need a massive and expensive battery capacity.<\/p>\n

However, the arrangement of your buildings or switchboard location might dictate that you need a three-phase battery system because rewiring the whole house is not an option.<\/p>\n

Most 3-phase battery systems have a limited surge rating because roughly one-third will be available to run any given single-phase circuit. For example, a 10kW nameplate will only deliver 4kW for 5 seconds to an unbalanced load.<\/p>\n

\"graphic

3 phase means AC waves that overlap each other<\/p><\/div>\n

A Single-Phase Battery Will Not Backup A 3-Phase Solar Inverter<\/h2>\n

If you have a 3-phase solar inverter and the single-phase Tesla Powerwall 2<\/a>, an extended grid outage will still be problematic because the Powerwall, even if you buy three of them, cannot form a synchronous 3-phase supply to reboot the solar inverter. This is true of any single-phase battery that’s AC coupled to a 3-phase solar system.<\/p>\n

When the grid goes down, you have whatever energy is stored in the battery, and it won’t be replenished until mains power is restored.<\/p>\n

However, if your solar power is provided from a single-phase inverter, Powerwall will happily keep the power on to that solar inverter, provided the equipment is sized under 5kW or controlled correctly by the commissioning electrician.<\/p>\n

A Single-Phase Battery Can Backup All The Single-Phase Loads On A Three Phase House<\/h2>\n

If you have a 3-phase house but you’re happy to lose the use of your 3-phase loads in an outage, a clever electrician can set up a contactor arrangement that can parallel all your wiring to be backed up by a single-phase battery system.<\/p>\n

Imagine taking the back wheels off your trike and putting them beside the front one, even though you’ll need to balance things carefully, it’s possible to ride it like a unicycle.<\/p>\n

The same approach can be used for a 3-phase EV charger. It would be possible to top up your EV when it’s sunny, although I would suggest a manual changeover arrangement for this, as it would be too easy to just drain the house battery into the car<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it’s easier to just put all your essential loads on one phase and simply back up that phase.<\/p>\n

\"tesla

Tesla wall connector EV chargers will work on single or three phase.<\/p><\/div>\n

Do You Really Need A 3-Phase Battery System?<\/h3>\n

Even though Australia’s grid is <\/span>99.998% reliable by law<\/a>, many people are investigating batteries for both economic and security reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have a 3-phase house, seriously consider whether you need a 3-phase battery. Can you put your essential loads on the same phase and happily ride through outages with only that phase backed up?<\/p>\n

Your choice will depend on whether your solar inverter is single or three-phase, how critical your 3-phase appliances really are and how much money you’ve got to spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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