[RE-wrenches] Lifting the PowerFlo 16

[William Bryce]

The PF16 is pretty easy to move with a couple of "J hooks" off of ratchet
straps that you can get at any truckstop.

The J hooks perfectly fit into the lifting handles on the side of the
battery. You can use a pipe and lift the battery.
Use the included template to perfectly place the mounting brackets.

The wife and I have moved and installed many of them without issue using
the straps and a pipe and we are old.
See attached.

Logan

On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM Ken Schaal via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> In.years past, installing assempled Trace power panels, we used 2 farm
> jacks with a 2x4 between them...just went.low enough to.get under the
> bottom SW 6048, then slide them up the wall and bolt to wall.
> Ken Schaal Commonwealth Solar
> Ll
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2026, 5:04 PM Zeke Yewdall via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
>> One of my installers in western CO uses a lifting dolly -- he does a lot
>> of double stacked setups with 6 to 12 batteries in a system, with lower row
>> of batteries 2 or 3 inches off the ground and an upper row of
>> batteries about 3 feet off the ground.
>>
>> EG4 sells a lifting dolly especially made for their wallmount batteries
>> for about $1100, and Vevor has a few models of lifting dollies for around
>> $400.  They are commonly used for woodstoves and safes and boilers and such
>> as well, not just batteries.
>>
>> Zeke
>>
>>
>>> For those of you that have wall mounted the PF 16 battery, can you share
>>> techniques and or equipment methods?
>>> I can get my engine hoist into the building and I was hoping to sling the
>>> battery to get it up there. Plan is to mount one above another with
>>> 10-12?
>>> of clearance.
>>>  Does MidnitePower make anything for this ?
>>>
>>> Jeremy Rodriguez
>>> All Solar Inc.
>>> Penrose CO
>>> 719-276-4954
>>> Established 1998
>>
>> --
>> Zeke Yewdall
>> PV Engineer
>> NABCEP #031508-89
>> zeke at darkforestsolar.com
>> 303-523-3592
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