The Smart Home Energy Trainer (123-01) from LJ Create is a hands-on learning system that demonstrates how a modern smart home produces, stores, manages, and uses electrical energy. Using a single integrated training panel, students can safely explore the complete home energy ecosystem, including solar power, battery storage, EV charging, heat pumps, smart controls, and interaction with the electrical grid.
Students can follow energy as it moves throughout the home, from electricity generated by solar panels to energy converted between AC and DC, stored in a battery, consumed by household loads, or exported back to the grid. The smart energy panel trainer also demonstrates how backed-up and non-backed-up circuits operate, helping students understand load prioritization and how smart energy systems respond to different conditions.
A touchscreen display allows learners to view and control heating and cooling, solar and battery systems, insulation, and vehicle charging. Students can investigate how insulation reduces heat loss and energy consumption, explore heat pumps as an alternative to fossil-fuel heating systems, and see how batteries can store both locally generated solar energy and lower-cost off-peak grid energy for later use.