Sol-Ark (Portable Solar LLC) - Profile & Reviews

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 operational
on the first day.

We have standardized on the 12kW Sol-Ark units for all our battery-ready projects.

Timely, patient and completely competent. Product works great. Straight forward instructions.

I am a contractor but never have done solar but with Sol-Ark it was straight forward.

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.

We are installers in SE USA and Caribbean. We are on our 9th Sol-Ark installation and it has proven to be the best unit we have ever used easy to get and Teck far superior to any other inverter sales. Soon as this Virus lets up we have 4 more to install. With it being a complete unit it has saved us a multitude of time and money to install and we are able to pass on some savings to our customers.
Larry. LARenewables inc

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.

Professional, pleasant, helpful, knowledgeable. I appreciated Bhawna's assistance with our purchases.

I recently retired and with more time at home the wife and I thought about the reliability of the grid in our area. We had had multiple outages due to weather and grid maintenance, once for nearly 24 hours- once our local and only cell phone site went dead we realized something has to change. I researched for months and found Sol-Arc, kept up further research and decided to call up and order Sol-Arc. We purchased an 8K, 21 panels, and four PCC-230 batteries. I installed the system with the panels on the metal roof of our adjacent garage building after strengthening the structure. We called Sol-Arc technicians a couple of times during installation to get great technical advise promptly. I had electrical experience that helped allot with the install yet it helped mostly to avoid problems with the city electrical inspector and they can get detailed in their inspections for city approval. Our system has been online for just over one year and have no regrets except wishing we could have purchased more batteries initially witch we are planning to purchase. If grid power goes down my computers and internet modem doesn't even reboot, the 8K is so quick to take over with the load. I am an Amateur Radio Operator and my kilowatt HF station is on the air no matter what. That is reassuring to us. Sol-Arc is the premier supplier of quality, efficient, products. Can't be happier with our choices.
Don Jones
Nevada, Texas

Being a licensed solar contractor and in the industry for 7 years, I can say that I see this inverter as THE best inverter out there. Versitile and high quality. I always recommend them to my customers and it's what I use on my own house! Nothing comes close in the battery based inverter realm. You can tell this thing is build with the highest quality standards and did not cut any corners. I sing their praises to everyone.

Licensed electrician, NABCEP PV installer, 10yr solar industry veteran here. I've installed every battery inverter and Solark beats them all. Easier to install and use. Company is easy to deal with, no long waits for tech support . Power class of the inverter(10kDC) fits in nicely with most residential products. Customers love the easy to use touch screen. The inverter easily does time of use, load shedding, behind the meter zero export, energy monitoring out of the box. Works with any battery. Monitoring is easy to setup and Solark actually helps setup the monitoring account. I would be surprised if Solark doesn't change the whole industry because its kicking Schneider, SMA, Outback, and Magnum's butt right now!

My experience with Sol-Ark:
I’m an engineer and have an existing 10KW Solar system that I designed myself, their worst nightmare. :-)
After many questions, all answered clearly, patiently and surprisingly well, I pulled the trigger and
got the 12K, EMP Hardened unit. (EMP Hardened, because as a Ham, I know what our Sun can do.)

The day before it arrived, my electrician went on vacation, so I had to wait to get it installed. Gaaahhh!
That gave me more time to cogitate, and yes, they got more questions.
Again, best customer service ever.

It’s now installed and working like a champ, along with a custom welded battery rack and 20KWhs of an AGM battery bank.
I’ve waited all my life for my dream system, technology and my wallet to converge and this system rises to the challenge, as has Sol-Ark with their superb customer service. This will keep my home and Tesla Model 3 running thru extended power outages and supply power for emergency communications via my Ham station to boot.

Some quick notes:
Li batts cannot be EMP hardened, so I went with AGM.
2 banks @ 48v with a max of 40A each bank gives a max of ~4,000 Watts peak output. (being conservative.)
(I may add a 3rd bank just to get to 6,000, or just reduce the max from each bank. My tested need is 3.8kw peak.)
Quick switchover means computers don’t get wonky with grid power burps.
I used Load side A/C coupling of 7.75K max Solar. This keeps things well inside limits.
(The remaining 2K is on a separate circuit that stayed on Grid side between Main breaker and Sol-Ark, so isn’t used to charge batts if power goes out.
That was the only compromise I needed to make.)

I’m not perceiving any ‘hash’ on received radio signals, so it’s not hampering the amateur radio station.

Bottom line:
Great Unit, Great customer support, Happy customer.
Go git’chew one!

I am very happy with the system I bought from Sol-Ark. The 8K inverter, panels and wiring to put it all together were all included. The install manual was accurate and easy to follow.

I have had a 5kW system for 10 years. Enphase offered a legacy inverter updgrade I could not refuse which allowed me to add a Sol-Ark 8K eight battery backup system.

It works well.

Typically, my home uses 23kW on March days, but the past threeI have used only 2kW each day.
The Sol-Ark technology becomes easy to understand in a few days. Their tech support has responded to this new users request for "how to" answers.

Going to make some of my friends jealous or maybe sell a system.

My experience with sol-ark has been a tremendous blessing . I am one who researches a product before going with it and with sol-ark it was no different . I searched for several months for a solar solution and found that sol-ark is second to none . It’s product and service is best that is available at this time. It’s most affordable inverter and system that can meet all of your energy needs on the market!!

I’m surprised that not more have heard of it ...it is the most efficient inverter that I have ever seen...I hope and pray that if you are in the valley of decision that you will give sol-ark a try it is well with it .

We Installed sol-ark 12k ( it was easy and fast to install if have just a little diy experience ). And shortly after we installed the system the storms ripped through the south
Earn portion of the u.s. and knocked out all the power in our area ... but praise God ...while our utility grid power went out ..sol-ark switched seamlessly to batteries and it was like nothing happened !

I will definitely continue work with sol-ark and will recommend to friends and families alike . You can’t beat this system and everyone seems so friendly and kind. I praise God for sol-ark and you should give it a try today - you won’t be disappointed!!

Most affordable and reliable hybrid inverter in the US. You can have solar + battery + Grid + Generator to power your house or your business. Outstanding customer service. We are proud installer of Sol-Ark now.

We just completed installation of our Sol Ark 8K Inverter and battery backup to replace our 6 KW Sunnyboy inverter. This was the first installation of a Sol Ark for my electrician who specializes in commercial and residential solar installation. We were both impressed by the construction quality, performance and ease of use in programming. The system turns on so quick when the main power is turned off, that you really cant tell when the power goes down. This is a superior product and its made in the USA.

The Sol-Ark 8K solar generator has cut our energy costs in half and their customer support is outstanding. The system had an issue on Sunday of the recent Labor Day Holiday weekend. I reached out to Dylan and Tom via email and text. Dylan was travelling and still reached back to me via text. Tom then called and I was able to get the controller's WiFi back on my network with his help. Minutes later he had updated the software ! This on Labor Day Sunday ! On Tuesday I worked with Dylan to determine that a fuse was blown in the system's AC disconnect. I was directed to Lowe's to get the required fuse and installed with Dylan's patient and expert direction. This is an amazing system and the after sale support has been consistently superb. You will not find a better system or a more helpful company to work with than Sol-Ark !

My journey began into the solar realm by contacting a local solar proponent in town. My goal was to prepare for off-grid scenario and had no idea of where to begin. Local proponent gave me numerous websites to research but he specifically had me focus on Sol-Ark as he was familiar with YouTube videos of their products and installations. I've always believed you get what you pay for. I'm sure it would be possible to piecemeal a system, cut corners and just hope you don't regret those few dollars saved. I wanted one source offering the entire package. Sol-Ark team and business manager was very helpful creating a proposal that would fit my needs. Got off to a great start by superb packaging for LTL carrier. Next was to find a local installer and this also came from Sol-Ark business manager. Installer and his team did a very nice job. Sol-Ark tech support was right there on the phone any time we called. Kind of nice that after setting up WiFi, tech support can connect to the 8K unit to check on all systems, even update software. There is a learning curve for someone like me that has no background in solar and Sol-Ark made that easier for me with user guides and videos. Sol-Ark definitely met and exceeded expectations.