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  1. Further Information: Mint condition, used for less than a year, left on shelf and never touched. Original box & accessary. Firmware up to date Built in Boulder USA 1200 VA output 3X lower impedance than P5 Can deliver up to 40 amps peak from internal storage 4 outlets, 4 individual zones, one high current 10 amp AC input 230 volt Regulated 100% regenerated AC MultiWave Pure Sine Wave Integrated oscilloscope THD meter Improvement meter Power meter Control over the LAN Adjustable output voltage Colour touchscreen Field upgradable
  2. I think that I need to explain why I started this thread. When I decided to start the thread about the SolarIQ I found that there was already post elsewhere on Stereonet about this device from a few weeks ago. There had been no responses to the question from the original post about the Solar IQ in the context of audio performance. I thought the thread was lost in the wrong place and now maybe the two threads can be combined. Maybe nobody had tried a SolarIQ After a period of consideration, I now have a SolarIQ and can comment on its performance. I live in a rural area. The voltage of the electricity supply to my house fluctuates between 240 volts and out to at least 258 volts and sometimes even slightly higher. It is mostly above 250 volts. As I write this post the supply voltage is 256 volts. I have always been intrigued as to whether this makes a difference to the SQ performance of my system. Is it better or worse as a consequence of what I consider is the reasonably high voltage? I have a micro inverter based solar system and I was aware that the relative performance of the micro inverters was influenced by the supply voltage. My understanding is that as the supply voltage increases the performance of the inverters decreases especially as the voltage goes above 250 volts. In fact, solar can shut down when the voltage hits the mid 250volts A while ago an electrician was rewiring my phone points prior to NBN connection. I asked him some questions about the high voltage and what could I do about it. The electrician suggested a SolarIQ which would reduce the voltage used in the house down to a steady lower voltage. With the SolarIQ the inverters only see the volts that it puts out. Some experts supposedly disagree with this phenomenon. The street supply and the solar is wired into the SolarIQ. It is then wired to the switch board so that what goes in to the switch board and therefore the house is the setting of the SolarIQ which is all the solar sees. With lower voltage there supposedly would be of benefit in the context of quantity of the improved solar performance, less power consumed in the house and the reduced wear and tear on appliances using the lower voltage. The electrician also said that there may be a benefit for the SQ for the audio system. All very interesting. To me it became a matter that if there was a benefit to the audio so be it but it was about the potential of the dollar savings. My focus shifted from the audio and shifted to the potential $$$ savings overtime. Any audio benefit became a maybe. I decided to proceed and ordered a SolarIQ. It was installed last Monday. Initially software wise it was not properly set up. It has been tweaked over the last few days. At the beginning it fluctuated between working as it should and not working. Today it has been fine. The expression was that it needed to “learn my situation”. Initially it changed randomly from the normal street supply to the controlled supply. It went from 250+ to the control default of 220volts. With the random changes I was subject to an enforced AB testing for the first couple of days. When the voltage went down to the 220 volts output there was a noticeable beneficial change. The noise floor was definitely reduced. The bass was more obvious. I felt that I needed to turn the volume up slightly. The most significant change was that the sound was far more lifelike and musical and there was enhanced three dimensionality. So, there was a pleasing audio benefit. It was decided that the 220 volt default setting was a bit low for me as there was voltage drop in the house by the time the power reached the system of between 4 to 5 volts. My solarIQ has now been set at a controlled 230 volts so the system gets 225 volts. My impression is that with this higher setting that the three dimensionality has been reduced slightly. The rest of the audio benefits are as is when the default output was 220 volts My audio system tends to high end so to be able to achieve a benefit of an increase in the musical realism with the SolarIQ is pleasing to me. In fact, the outcome has been surprising. I did not expect much from the audio outcomes. Now I do not overall care whether I get one cent of benefit in terms of the solar etc. I started from an audio objective and went to the dollars and now it is that both are achieved. I am intrigued as to what the SolarIQ has done in terms of the treatment of the power to have a noticeable beneficial impact on the audio outcome. The impact is definite. It took about 5 hours to install so it is not easily removed. I have no financial interest in the company that manufactures and sells the SolarIQ whatsoever. I am just pleased with my investment A link https://www.edgeelectrons.com/edgeiq John
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