Whole-home backup

Whole-home backup is a storage topology that keeps the entire property powered during a grid outage, rather than only a separate panel of selected circuits. In the Solis design it is built from the hybrid inverter's EPS (backup) output combined with an automatic transfer switch (ATS) that moves the home between sources. Its main advantage is that there is no split between essential and non-essential circuits, which gives the customer a better experience during interruptions. Use it only when full-property backup is actually required, the battery system is sized for it, automatic source transfer is wanted, and load management has been considered. Whole-home backup layouts also appear in SolarEdge Home Hub material as a combined main panel full backup, in Generac PWRcell and PWRmanager documentation, and in Enphase CT installation guidance.

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• sentence 1: support check: partial - Passages say the entire property remains operational with no essential/non-essential separation, but 'storage topology' and the contrast with a separate critical-loads panel are only implied by headings.
• sentence 2: support check: partial - Heading names a topology using EPS and ATS, but the passages don't say the hybrid inverter's EPS output is combined with an ATS that moves the home between sources, or that it is the Solis design.
• sentence 4: support check: partial - The four conditions are listed, but 'only' is stronger than the 'When' list, and load management 'considered' is paraphrased from 'addressed'.
• sentence 5: support check: partial - Headings show whole-home backup in SolarEdge Home Hub (combined main panel) and two other documents, but the passages don't identify them as Generac PWRcell/PWRmanager or Enphase CT guidance.
• sentence 1: review: partial - The passages back keeping the entire property running during outages with no essential/non-essential split, but 'storage topology' and the contrast with a separate panel of selected circuits are only implied by headings.
• sentence 4: review: partial - All four conditions appear in the 'Use ... When' list, but the word 'only' makes it stricter than the source's guidance. -->