The assessment
How it scores, by category
Market position
The data
DC-coupled battery
Stores DC energy and relies on system power electronics outside the battery product for household AC.
- Product role
- The published battery record covers the storage stack, controller and stated capacity range.
- Published range
- 4.56–72.96 kWh
- Phase
- Not recorded
- Backup boundary
- Installation-specific
What the documents establish
Published evidence, source-reviewed non-disclosure and unresolved questions remain separate from the product score.
Usable capacity
95% of this battery’s nominal capacity is usable, 4.56 kWh in the scored configuration.4.56 kWh usableScored configuration: US5000-B. Published range 4.56–72.96 kWh.
The remaining 5% stays in the pack as reserve; the home never draws it.
Nominal capacity is not stated here. The usable kWh and the depth-of-discharge percentage are sourced separately, at times from different documents and different module counts, so dividing one by the other would produce a nominal figure no manufacturer published.
Usable capacity sourceDepth-of-discharge source 1Depth-of-discharge source 2Capacity guarantee: minimum retained at year 10
No year-by-year capacity schedule is published for this product - the manufacturer guarantees only this end-of-term minimum, not a specific decline curve. Capacity figure based on the sourced usable capacity of the base configuration; modular systems scale with additional modules.
Blackout protection
58 / 100#60 of 90 batteriesWhole-home (via hybrid inverter)
The blackout score is a standalone benchmark of outage resilience only - it re-weights sourced specs already scored in this product’s pillars (backup tier, switchover, surge strength, backup power, off-grid recharge) and never affects the overall score. Dots show the full battery fleet; the marker is this product.
Verification & sources
Market context
Global evidencechange in the site menu
Global benchmark. This scorecard is benchmarked globally. A global score does not imply local availability, certification, warranty coverage, or installer compatibility.
Benchmark anchor. The range uses one to sixteen 4.56 kWh usable modules. The score remains anchored to one reviewed US5000-B module. Scored model: US5000-B · checked 2026-07-27. Evidence.
Sources & references · checked 2026-09-01
Strong evidence coverage
31 of 31 scored criteria link directly to a published source.
Values marked estimated, derived, or not found remain visible on the audit sheet and do not carry the same evidential weight as a linked source. Coverage measures direct links, not an independent guarantee that a claim is correct.
Record revision. Pylontech US 5000 specification EN-SD-250424, published 2026-06-23; Australian US Series warranty AU22WUSS100302. First-market US and DE overlay review 2026-09-01: official regional catalogues recorded; Australian overlays and scores unchanged.
- Sourced valuesData card →
- Warranty summary10-year product warranty →
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- Cell provenance & traceabilityManufacturer ↗
Product record history
9 changes to this record · 152 products changed in this update
Source revision
- Before
- Pylontech US 5000 specification EN-SD-250424, published 2026-06-23; Australian US Series warranty AU22WUSS100302
- After
- Pylontech US 5000 specification EN-SD-250424, published 2026-06-23; Australian US Series warranty AU22WUSS100302. First-market US and DE overlay review 2026-09-01: official regional catalogues recorded; Australian overlays and scores unchanged.
DE Support Note
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- pylontech.de/produkte/us5000 is a JavaScript shell and does not retrieve US5000-B. Held is not unavailable. Force H3X is a different identity.
US Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://www.pylontech.us/products/us5000
DE Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://www.pylontech.de/produkte/us5000/
US Support Note
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- pylontech.us/products/us5000 is a JavaScript shell and does not retrieve US5000-B. A US5000 listing without the -B suffix is not this scored identity. Held is not unavailable.
1 change to this record · 147 products changed in this update
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- Current text
- accepted at: 2026-08-09; category: battery; certification model: US5000-B; jurisdiction: au_cec; match method: exact_normalized_single_record; product slug: pylontech-us5000b-au; source key: data/batteries/pylontech_us5000b.json; source manufacturer name: Pylon Technologies Co Ltd; validation: approved at: 2022-05-11; candidate model: US5000-B; data confidence: High; evidence url: https://cer.gov.au/document/cec-approved-solar-batteries-0; expires at: 2027-12-31; list data version: au-cer-battery-2026-08-20-b3f077cbe945; list retrieved at: 2026-08-27T04:30:11Z; listing status at validation: listed
The previous text is not reproduced here: both versions run to a full research paragraph. Both are in the JSON record linked below.
AU market evidencesupersededAustralian approved-product source identity
17 changes to this record · 78 products changed in this update
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- reviewed_absence
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- Reviewed 2026-08-25: The exact specification publishes more than 6,000 cycles at 25 C without a retained-capacity endpoint. No cycles-to-70% value is substituted into the score.
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://en.pylontech.com.cn/profile/upload/2026/06/23/US%205000%20Spec_1782186290116.pdf; https://www.pylontech.au/products/us5000
Cycle life (cycles to 70%): Evidence sources
- Before
- https://en.pylontech.com.cn/profile/upload/2026/06/23/US%205000%20Spec_1782186290116.pdf; https://www.pylontech.au/products/us5000
- After
- No longer recorded
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Confidence
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- high
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://www.pylontech.au/products/us5000
Evidence sources
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- https://en.pylontech.com.cn/profile/upload/2026/06/23/US%205000%20Spec_1782186290116.pdf; https://www.pylontech.au/products/us5000
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- Reviewed 2026-08-25: no exact-product battery/DC round-trip efficiency with a complete measurement boundary was established in the reviewed primary source set. This is a scoped reviewed absence, not proof that the value has never been measured.
Value
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- The exact specification publishes more than 6,000 cycles at 25 C without a retained-capacity endpoint.
Cycle life (cycles to 70%): Evidence status
- Before
- sourced
- After
- No longer recorded
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- reviewed_absence
State
- Before
- Not previously recorded
- After
- supported
This is review.solar's publication history. It does not claim the product changed on the recorded date, and it excludes compatibility, system pairing, installation suitability and relative leaderboard prose. Open the complete JSON record.
Evidence timeline
Recorded verification events for this scorecard. These are evidence checks, not historical score snapshots.
- Core scorecard evidence checked
- US market evidence checked
- DE market evidence checked
- Australian certification source identity verified
- AU market evidence checked
- Plain-language warranty summary checked
- Series benchmark evidence checked
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Our reading
US5000B scores 63, placing 41 of 76 in the Performance & Value class against a class average of 63.0. Its strongest scoring dimension is capacity & usability (88), above the class average of 84. Energy Ecosystem scores 42, the lowest pillar for this product. The class average on energy ecosystem is 47. Key specifications: LFP, 4.8 kW continuous output.
Dietreich Farquharson · review.solar