The assessment
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Market position
The data
AC-coupled battery
Includes battery-side power conversion and connects on the household AC side.
- Product role
- The battery product includes its own conversion stage, while site isolation and backup controls may remain separate.
- Published range
- 6.48–12.78 kWh
- Phase
- Not recorded
- Backup boundary
- Installation-specific
Usable capacity
90% of this battery’s nominal capacity is usable, 12.78 kWh in the scored configuration.12.78 kWh usableScored configuration: SB14200. Published range 6.48–12.78 kWh.
The remaining 10% 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 sourceBlackout protection
48 / 100#63 of 78 batteriesPartial (essential loads)
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 score is anchored to SB14200. Smart Hybrid and later Redback hybrid systems are separate product identities. Scored model: SB14200 · checked 2026-08-01. Evidence.
Sources & references · checked 2026-08-07
Strong evidence coverage
26 of 26 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. SB14200 regulator expiry, installed-base service and non-assumption boundary re-audited 2026-08-07
- Sourced valuesData card →
- Warranty summary10-year product warranty →
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Evidence timeline
Recorded verification events for this scorecard. These are evidence checks, not historical score snapshots. No change to this product record has been published since the change ledger opened on 2026-08-16.
- Core scorecard evidence checked
- AU market evidence checked
- Plain-language warranty summary checked
- Series benchmark evidence checked
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Our reading
Smart Battery SB14200 scores 53, placing 59 of 63 in the Performance & Value class against a class average of 63.4. Its strongest scoring dimension is guarantee & backbone (64), running 9.6 points above the class average on this dimension. Longevity (verified) scores 45, the lowest pillar for this product. The class average on longevity (verified) is 59. Key specifications: 4.5 kW continuous output.