<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Yeah I always hate when people ask about stuff thats not available.<div><br></div><div>I’ll just tell him he’ll have to find it on his own. </div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>jay<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 24, 2025, at 2:23 PM, scot.arey@solarcentex.com wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I first became aware of the BYD when I had my 'LG only kinda/sorta works' with the SMA storage inverter debacle.<br><br>Not many making a high voltage battery now and shockingly to me, seems that 48V has kind of won the "beta/vhs" battle for now. Maybe the new SolarEdge Nexis ESS and inverter tips this again, but to answer your question, didn't find BYD from any "major" distributors during a cursory look.<br><br>We did just install the latest SMA inverter and we liked it...I'm a sucker for SMA string inverters and we enjoyed using the SunSpec functionality which provides great value.</div><div class="elementToProof" id="Signature" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Howard "Scot" Arey</b></div><div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Owner, Solar CenTex</b></div><div class="elementToProof" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">254-300-1228 </div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div></div><div id="appendonsend" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; width: 742.828125px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE-wrenches <re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org> on behalf of jay via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, September 24, 2025 3:10 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>jay <jay.peltz@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[RE-wrenches] BYD battery 12kW</font><div> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; line-break: after-white-space;">I had someone ask me about this battery for a new SMA smart inverter.<div><br></div><div>I thought I’d run it by everyone. My searches came up empty so I’m guessing it’s vapor ware?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>jay<br id="x_lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you ever seen this battery and do you know anyone who sells them?</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have a customer looking for one or two and they are the approved battery for the new SMA smart inverters ( or so my customer told me)</div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="x__Entity x__EType_OWALinkPreview x__EId_OWALinkPreview x__EReadonly_1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 758px; display: inline-block;"><div class="x_LPBorder903201" id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvZGlyZWN0LmNvbS9CWUQtMTItMC1rV2gtUHJlbWl1bS1IVkwtSG9tZS1CYXR0ZXJpZXMtcC9ieWQtYmF0dGVyeS1ib3gtaHZsLTEyLjAuaHRt" style="width: 758px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; max-width: 800px; min-width: 424px;"><table role="presentation" id="LPContainer903201" style="padding: 12px 36px 12px 12px; width: 758px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-radius: 2px;"><tbody><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;"><td><div id="LPImageContainer903201" style="margin-right: 12px; height: 178.4px; overflow: hidden; width: 240px;"><a href="https://www.ecodirect.com/BYD-12-0-kWh-Premium-HVL-Home-Batteries-p/byd-battery-box-hvl-12.0.htm" id="LPImageAnchor903201" target="_blank"><img width="240" height="178" alt="" id="LPThumbnailImageId903201" src="https://www.ecodirect.com/v/vspfiles/photos/BYD-BATTERY-BOX-HVL-12.0-2T.jpg" style="display: block;"></a></div></td><td style="width: 446px;"><div id="LPTitle903201" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;"><a href="https://www.ecodirect.com/BYD-12-0-kWh-Premium-HVL-Home-Batteries-p/byd-battery-box-hvl-12.0.htm" id="LPUrlAnchor903201" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">BYD 12.0 kWh Premium HVL Home Batteries - 3 Modules | Battery-Box HVL 12.0 - EcoDirect</a></div><div id="LPDescription903201" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;">Warranty: 10 Years Stock Status: (Out of Stock) Availability: This item has an indefinite lead time, due to import complications. 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