Ground mount · 1 × 460W · up to 799VA
Compact 460W plug-in solar kit (ground mount)
The smallest footprint in the range: one 460W panel on a fixed ground stand. The line most landlords spec for Tyneside flats with a back yard and small terrace patios.
Illustrative imageProcurement summary
One kit per carton. At 41kg, plan two people to move each one. Pallet quantities and pallet weights are being confirmed with the maker.
Trade price: TBC. It will sit in the price tiers once trade terms are signed.
Specification
- Panel power
- 1 × 460W
- Output into your home
- Up to 799VA (3.5A), 230V 50Hz
- Panel
- TOPCon N-type mono, bifacial glass-glass, 96 cells, 23.0% efficiency
- Panel size
- 1762 × 1134 × 30mm
- Panel weight
- 25.5kg
- Space needed
- 1.9m × 1.2m (about 2.3m²)
- Microinverter
- APsystems EZ1-M 800W microinverter, 2 MPPT, 96.7% peak efficiency, IP67, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth app
- Mounting
- Ground mount only. Ballast not included
- Cable
- 4m AC connection cable
- Plug type
- Factory-fitted, moulded and fused UK plug (BS 1363). Don't cut it off or rewire it
- Box
- 1800 × 1180 × 180mm, 41kg
- Fire rating
- Class C
- Standards
- BS EN 50549-1, BS EN 62109-1, BS EN 62109-2, EN 755-1:2016, EN 755-2:2016
- Where it's made
- Assembled in the UK, with a UK-made mount. Some parts are made in China
- ENA Type Test Register
- Listed as Compliant (0.8kW, single phase)
- Manufacturer's warranty
- 10 years on the panel and on the mounting stand. The APsystems microinverter has its own manufacturer's warranty. Cables, connectors and accessories: 2 years
From the maker's datasheet (September 2026).
What's in each carton
- 1 × 460W TOPCon N-type panel (bifacial, glass-glass)
- 1 × APsystems EZ1-M 800W microinverter
- Ground mounting stand, attached (made in the UK)
- 4m AC connection cable
Ballast isn't in the carton. The maker's manual asks for dense concrete blocks of at least 18kg each on the stand's lower plates, both sides: 2 blocks where gusts can top 40mph, 5 above 60mph and 10 above 80mph. Coastal and exposed sites need the higher counts, so plan block quantities per address.
Cables sit on top of the blocks, never trapped under them, and no block rests on the microinverter.
Placement rules per property
Ground only: a lawn, patio, gravel area or yard floor with about 1.9m × 1.2m of level space. Not for walls, roofs or balconies; the maker's datasheet says it isn't suitable for balconies.
Each kit plugs straight into a weatherproof outdoor socket (at least IP55) within its 4m cable. The maker designs the kits for an outdoor socket fitted and certified by a qualified electrician, with modern RCD protection in the consumer unit. No extension leads, cable reels or adaptors.
Across the North East, registration at myplugin.solar notifies Northern Powergrid, the network operator, for each address.
Checks for every household
Run through these at each address before the kit is allocated. If one can't be ticked, that address waits.
- Written permission from the freeholder or managing agent where you don't own the freehold, and the tenant told before install day.
- A weatherproof outdoor socket within 4m of the spot, and modern RCD protection in the consumer unit. An electrician can fit or check both.
- Straight into the wall socket. No extension leads, cable reels or adaptors, and the factory plug is never cut off.
- One kit only at that address, and never alongside a home battery.
- Registered free at myplugin.solar before first use, against that address.
- The building insurer told before the kit goes in.
Supply status
Supply date to be confirmed
This line isn't on sale yet. Join the kit list and we'll email you when supply dates and trade prices are confirmed. For a portfolio or programme, request a priced proposal and we'll come back to you with the figures.
Kits go out from the NE13 yard, by van or wagon across the North East, or for collection at the trade counter once stock lands.
Trade buyer questions
Why spec the 460W when bigger kits exist?
Footprint. It needs about 1.9m × 1.2m, which fits back yards and small patios where a two-panel kit won't. With one 460W panel, the panel sets the output, below the 799VA cap.
Can we install several on one property?
No. The rules allow one plug-in solar kit per household. A block of six flats can have six kits, one per flat, each registered to its own address.
Who registers the kit?
Each kit is registered free at myplugin.solar before first use, against the address it's installed at. Put it on your install checklist so no kit is switched on unregistered.
Is ballast part of the order?
Ballast isn't in the carton. We can quote concrete blocks alongside the kits, sized to the maker's guidance for each site.
Can we resell it?
Approved resellers can, exactly as the maker supplies and registers it: no rebranding of the product, no changed cables or parts. See resellers.