Go to any of the solar battery companies’ websites and you will see an elegant battery box. No conduits, no junction boxes, no clutter. This is all marketing. Even for a small system comprising a single battery, the actual installation looks quite different. Add to this now more batteries and inverters and you have an industrial-looking installation.

By contrast, the PowerBloc with its modules inside of cabinets looks elegant even when YouSolar delivers systems with large amounts of power and deep storage.

Inside the cabinets and from module to module, the PowerBloc’s parallel power architecture makes our life easy. There are still wires coming from the solar array or wires going to the breaker panel. If you have six powerful inverters like some of our customers, ease of installation and serviceability become important – and it is all about connectors and cable management.

Early Sketches of the Cable Management of the 3rd Generation PowerBloc

Our goal at YouSolar is to deliver a plug-and-play solar-battery nanogrid. Therefore, we spend a lot of time considering how multiple cabinets connect and how we route cables in and out of the PowerBloc.

The installation and service of our first PowerBloc systems has provided us with invaluable and hard lessons for the wire management and connectors of the Gen 3 PowerBloc.

When designing the connections between cabinets and between the PowerBloc and the house, we allow for no compromises. If there is any chance for effort or error, we discard the design immediately. Form follows function, but it is surprising how the most efficient result always looks the most elegant.