Sol-Ark (aka)-Portable Solar LLC

After, a full year working with other hybrid inverters, we shifted to Sol-Ark.My staff could not be more pleased; the first five systems were installed and operationalon the first day.We have standardized on the 12kW units for all our battery-ready projects. Sunnycalsolar.com

Sol-Ark has easily one of the coolest inverter products on the market and will be around for a long time. Amazing customer and tech support as well. They will continue to be a game changer in the solar + battery space.

When the Solar part of the system works and is producing its great. The batteries not so much we are now going at 2 plus months of them not working and had them disconnected for safety(they did work from May to February) It started on a Friday Afternoon we came home from being at a VA appointment (so we were gone most of the day) to out on our front porch a strong smell of sulfuric acid(batteries) when we opened the door the smell got stronger. So we air out the house and called Sol-Ark. and they still are not fixed, just holding down our tile in the utility room. What did Sol-Ark do about this problem? They tried a lot of updates. I have heard from their tech people that we need to add batteries (these do not work why would I add more and we have these systems over the world ( Im just worried about the ones holding down my tiles). We have asked the tech department several times now to have someone call me to talk to me about this. We have called the installer and havent gotten very far on that route either as they say Sol-Ark is not communicating with them.

I have owned and used the Sol-Ark 8K and two of the 12K systems for the past year. As someone who lives completely off-grid, I will not put my family's quality of life on the line for nothing but the best systems on the market today. The CEO, Sales Team, and Technical Support Team of Sol-Ark have provided me with outstanding service throughout my off-grid adventure. They know the true meaning of 'Customer Service'. I am grateful for their dependability and responsiveness to my requirements. I highly recommend them to anyone who needs what they have to offer.

Easy as Pie! and very cost effective!I Recently install a sol-ark 8k at my friends home and we found the installation process simple and much less complicated then trying to install a traditional inverter with a separate solar controller. Note I am not a solar installer nor do i profess to being and a solar expert. I am only a process research chemist with a technical back ground. My friend asked for my help and this time I took the my time and did a significant amount of research and helped him select a cost and energy efficient system. Once we setup the two series of 9 panel, each string running a total of 330 volts and 9 amp (this is called high voltage system, low amps). Just after the each string i placed and an inline 15 amp 600v fuse on the positive line, and brought each string down to the sol-ark 8k using 10 awg cable a pleasent surprise. That's it no combiner box with breaker and no heavy gauge wire to controller. This alone was a time and cost saver. Wired up the load, Grid and solar to the sol-ark, which was 'easy a pie' and i was ready to go. Place the battery online, first charging up the capacitor as per instruction manual and then connecting the battery. Turn the unit on, programmed my battery info on a very nice touchscreen display, used the default off grid setup and i was running the house on a 48v 520 ah battery bank. Once i had it running off the batteries, turned on the solar panels (already late in the day) and installed the app on my android phone as described in the manual. I setup the account, and send Sol-ark a message about our newly created phone app and PC account and in a few hours i clicked my phone and i was monitoring the sol-ark on phone app and online. No communication, combo box or any other add-on to buy. This is great, now i had a way of making sure all is running well and i did not have to be there. Ten days later i called Sol-ark and they assisted me in programming the sol-ark with the grid for use as a third source of power, just in case there is no solar and the 25 kw of Lifepo4 batteries were low, the grid would kick in and partially charge the batteries to a programmed 50%. This is a very nice Hybrid inverter, I should have done my homework 2 years back when installing my solar system at home using the traditional transformer inverter with the extra cost of a separate solar controller (low voltage system, high amps), lot's of heavy cable (4 awg), installed from the solar panel combiner box, no communication software and very little flexibility with this inverter. Worst yet i spend almost as much as my friend did on his sol-ark 8k. All these little add on's is what actually make the Sol-ark 8k cost effective and easy to install, and i have not even mentioned my transformer base system draws 200 watts/hr or 5 kw/day, which makes the sol-ark energy efficient as well. Well, no point in crying over spilled milk, a lesson learned.