How the solar checks work

Surplus, meter and connection come before capacity.

An AC battery stores solar power you would otherwise export, and releases it later through your home connection. The checks test that chain in order and say which conditions remain open.
  1. 01

    Declare your surplus

    Roughly how much solar power you export on a good day, and when you use power yourself. “I don't know” is allowed and stays an open condition.

    ≈ 90 seconds

  2. 02

    Meter and connection

    Whether a compatible meter is needed (and included), and whether the output power needs a dedicated circuit by an electrician.

    Shown as conditions

  3. 03

    Conditional answer

    A capacity guided by your declared surplus, never presented as optimal. No savings or payback figure is promised.

    Same inputs, same answer

Read the full methodology

United States · portable power

US checks: refrigerator outage and RV weekend.

Secondary to the NL and DE solar checks, still published. Other countries are listed here too.
Six more situations are planned — coming next

Listed for transparency, not as working tools, and deliberately not clickable.

  • UC-01 · plannedHome outage (whole household)A few hours to a full night, mixed household loads.
  • UC-02 · planned72-hour family readinessMulti-day plan with a realistic recharge window.
  • UC-04 · plannedRouter, laptop & PCSmall continuous loads, long duration, work continuity.
  • UC-05 · plannedCPAP & medical-adjacentOvernight continuity with a conservative reserve.
  • UC-07 · plannedJobsiteTool inrush, duty cycles, rough handling, noise limits.
  • UC-08 · plannedOutdoor & campingPortability first, solar-only recharge realities.

Independent, dated, published

What you can hold us to.

  • Independence

    No paid placement. A verdict set is ordered from your situation and the dated catalog before any commercial layer is applied; some eligible outbound links are affiliate links, and eligibility is decided before commission.

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  • Dated data

    Prices, stock and every volatile figure carry the date they were checked. Values that cannot be verified are marked unknown, never estimated silently.

    Revision log

  • Published method

    Conservative rules, open to challenge, with corrections logged by date. Abstention is a valid output and is displayed as one.

    Methodology and abstention rules

Published by Alexis Marchais — engineer based in France, writing independently for NL, DE and US readers. Editorial standards · Contact the publisher