Bluetti AC180 1800w LiFePO4 UPS Power Station Solar Generator Review — Transcript

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1. 0:00greetings I'm Professor hobo and welcome
2. 0:03to another hobo technos product review
3. 0:08ever since bluetti discontinued the
4. 0:10eb150 a few years back there's been a
5. 0:12big gap in their product lineup in the
6. 0:141,00 to 1500 wat hour range you have the
7. 0:18700w hour eb70 and then this large jump
8. 0:22all the way up to the 2,000 wat hour ac2
9. 0:25200p finally after a lot of feedback
10. 0:28from their customers bluetti has
11. 0:30released their new back to the basics
12. 0:32ac10 power station in the United States
13. 0:36with 1152 wat hours of lithium iron
14. 0:39phosphate a honken 1800 watt inverter
15. 0:43and check it
16. 0:44out no touchscreen but is it any good
17. 0:49let's find out hot as for what's inside
18. 0:52the ac10 it carries 1152 WS of lithium
19. 0:56iron phosphate batteries rated at 3500
20. 1:00Cycles to 80% capacity as for size and
21. 1:02weight it's 13x 12x 10 in and only
22. 1:06weighs 35 lbs as for the display it
23. 1:09offers a color LCD that shows input and
24. 1:12output Watts time to charge and
25. 1:14discharge and battery percent with icon
26. 1:16unlike a lot of other models in the
27. 1:18upper end range of bluetti this does not
28. 1:20have a touchscreen as for the output
29. 1:22it's an 1800 wat pign inverter through
30. 1:25four 15 amp Outlets as for ways to
31. 1:28charge there are the standard three
32. 1:30first from AC power at a maximum of 1440
33. 1:34W good for a 0 to 80% charge and only 45
34. 1:38minutes the ac10 supports 500 WTS of
35. 1:41solar maximum at 10 amps from 12 to 60
36. 1:45volts meaning up to two large solar
37. 1:47panels in series for a full charge in
38. 1:50about 3 hours not too shabby finally you
39. 1:53can charge from 12 or 24 volts topping
40. 1:56up in about 10 hours or 5 hours
41. 1:58respectively as for 12 Vol outputs you
42. 2:00get a single cigarette letter socket
43. 2:03output good for 10 amps and that socket
44. 2:06is regulated at 13.6 volts as for USB
45. 2:10outputs you get four standard USB ports
46. 2:13and a single 100 W USB power delivery
47. 2:15output no you cannot charge this unit
48. 2:18from USB now as for wireless charging
49. 2:21luti does offer a 15 wat wireless
50. 2:23charging pad up top as standard on most
51. 2:26of their power stations now as a remote
52. 2:28control you can remotely control the
53. 2:31ac10 through blue Ed's bluetooth app and
54. 2:34it does offer a 20 millisecond switching
55. 2:36UPS feature meaning you can have
56. 2:39sensitive devices plugged into this and
57. 2:40if the power goes out what it's plugged
58. 2:42in the battery will simply take over now
59. 2:44as for the warranty blue edti does offer
60. 2:47a class leing 5year manufacturers
61. 2:49warranty on this product and of course I
62. 2:52took the AC 180 here into my secret
63. 2:54laboratory where I performed all kinds
64. 2:56of crazy experiments on it including yes
65. 2:59of course a double fisted bang bang
66. 3:03battery capacity test
67. 3:09[Applause]
68. 3:12[Music]
69. 3:20[Music]
70. 3:28[Music]
71. 3:29[Applause]
72. 3:35as for the results of the DC battery
73. 3:37capacity test it scored 1,39 wat hours
74. 3:41out of 1152 for a whopping 90% the
75. 3:45results of the AC battery capacity tests
76. 3:47were pretty much identical it scored
77. 3:501,030 wat hours out of 1152 or an
78. 3:53amazing
79. 3:5489% these are fantastic numbers and it
80. 3:57seems as though blue Edd's latest off
81. 3:59offerings are fairing much better on the
82. 4:01capacity test than their older models
83. 4:04one of the reasons for the better DC
84. 4:05numbers on this device in particular is
85. 4:08because they remove that high output DC
86. 4:11circuitry and touchscreen interface that
87. 4:14they have on the Aging ac2 200p that
88. 4:17saves quite a bit of power no doubt
89. 4:19they're also using a more efficient
90. 4:21processor inside and they've had a few
91. 4:23years now to really tweak that firmware
92. 4:26pure sine wave check underload I have
93. 4:28this running under a full 1,800 100 wat
94. 4:30load let's look at the sine wave so the
95. 4:32sine wave looks perfect and we're
96. 4:33pulling 120 volts at 60 HZ now next is
97. 4:37the inverter capacity test where we're
98. 4:39going to push this 1800 wat pure sign
99. 4:41inverter to its absolute limit so right
100. 4:43now I'm pulling about 1,760 watt let's
101. 4:46just keep cranking it up until the thing
102. 4:48shuts off all right there we have it
103. 4:501980 watt almost 2,000 watt 2200 watt
104. 4:552400 watt and it shuts down so 2400
105. 4:59Watts for a few seconds not too bad so
106. 5:02let's go ahead and move on to the
107. 5:03sustain cooling or heat soak test where
108. 5:05we run this thing at or above its limit
109. 5:07for at least 5 minutes to find out does
110. 5:10it do anything crazy does it start
111. 5:11smoking or drinking or making funny
112. 5:13smells or calling its mother names or
113. 5:15throwing rocks or tping your neighbors
114. 5:17don't expect any of that from the blue
115. 5:18edti but we have to test it anyway so
116. 5:20I'm going to go ahead and start this
117. 5:21test at 2,000 Watts even though it's
118. 5:23only 1800 watt inverter to see can it
119. 5:25make it to 5 minutes now the worst thing
120. 5:27that could happen is it should just shut
121. 5:28down and say over load and then we try
122. 5:30it again at 1800 WT and there we go
123. 5:332,000 WT let's go ahead and start the
124. 5:34timer and we'll come back in 5 minutes
125. 5:36and see is it still running all right
126. 5:38we're back we made it exactly 2 minutes
127. 5:40at 2,000 Watts before it shut down okay
128. 5:43so I'm going to back it down 100 Watts
129. 5:45down to 1900 and perform the same test
130. 5:47and see if we can make it to 5 minutes
131. 5:49all right crazy enough exactly at the
132. 5:512-minute mark it shut down at 1900 watt
133. 5:53so we're going to back it down to 1,800
134. 5:56and reset and make sure can at least
135. 5:57handle it's rated 1800 watts okay we
136. 6:00reset the clock we're running at 1800
137. 6:02WTS let's see if it's going to finish
138. 6:04all right here we are the magic 5 minute
139. 6:06Mark running at 1800 watt it passed that
140. 6:09test with no problems at all so while we
141. 6:11have the inverter at maximum let's go
142. 6:13ahead and test to see what the deciel
143. 6:16level is of the inverter fans we're
144. 6:17doing this from about a meter
145. 6:20away so it looks like 55 DB it is a
146. 6:24little on the loud side but it's not too
147. 6:26bad it's not an unpleasant sound it's
148. 6:28just a little loud I'm afraid you're
149. 6:30just too darn
150. 6:32loud next
151. 6:35place Max charge rate test this is where
152. 6:38we determine how much power can we push
153. 6:39Into the Blue Ed ac150 now this via AC
154. 6:43DC solar and USB if it supported it now
155. 6:47I go into the app and it says there is
156. 6:50standard turbo and silent mode I do have
157. 6:52this on turbo mode so the fastest
158. 6:54charging mode possible makes the most
159. 6:56noise uses the most power but we're
160. 6:59getting a prettyy impressive 1450 W into
161. 7:03the ac80 see right there
162. 7:051450 W okay next we're going to do DC
163. 7:08charging so we're going to start with 12
164. 7:11volts we just plug in the 8 mm and I
165. 7:13have an adapter here going to this
166. 7:14variable voltage charger this charger
167. 7:17can output 20 amps and you'll see here
168. 7:20like most power stations that limits the
169. 7:22input to 8 amps so you don't blow the
170. 7:25fuse in your car know it looks like it's
171. 7:27charging at around 90 wats so that's
172. 7:29fine for 12 VT so at 22 volts we're
173. 7:32still pulling 8 amps for 162 WT let's
174. 7:36take it out to 24 volts now let's assume
175. 7:38that you have a 24 volt system in a
176. 7:41vehicle how fast could you expect to
177. 7:43have this thing charge it's still
178. 7:45limiting itself to 8 amps and you're now
179. 7:48able to charge at about 185 Watts okay
180. 7:52let's take this up to two solar panels
181. 7:55in series now I'm doing a reset on this
182. 7:57cuz once in a while if you don't reset
183. 7:59that it doesn't tell the mppt controller
184. 8:01to reset so basically I want to make
185. 8:04sure that we're getting accurate results
186. 8:06it's Now 46 volts at 9.6 amps for 433
187. 8:10Watts that sounds a lot better I was
188. 8:11getting concerned there for a moment so
189. 8:13you got two solar panels in series you
190. 8:16can expect it to charge somewhere
191. 8:17between 400 and 450 Watts now let's go
192. 8:21ahead and crank this up to the maximum
193. 8:2260 volts because that is the maximum
194. 8:24that the blue Edie supports and there it
195. 8:26is it hard caps you at 500 watts so
196. 8:29let's go ahead and see can it take any
197. 8:31more volts it's not going to hurt it if
198. 8:33you go over slightly we do it slowly
199. 8:36we're waiting for this number to go to
200. 8:37zero so we can do 62 volts three there
201. 8:41we go it's 64 volts it drops out that's
202. 8:44what you expect little bit of leeway not
203. 8:46too much so if you go a little bit over
204. 8:48the 60 volts vocc on your solar panels
205. 8:51it's not a big deal okay now the next
206. 8:53question is going to be since it
207. 8:54overloaded we put too much voltage Into
208. 8:56the Blue edti it shut down saying hey
209. 8:59that's too much solar voltage it's
210. 9:01blinking DC and it says overload will it
211. 9:04automatically reset itself or do you
212. 9:06have to manually reset it now modern
213. 9:08Power Station should automatically reset
214. 9:10so let's bring it down to under 60 volts
215. 9:13I just heard a click and there we go
216. 9:15it's actually solar charging you can see
217. 9:16it's pulling powered it's going right
218. 9:18back to charging so that's very good to
219. 9:20know if you go a little bit over on the
220. 9:22voltage on your solar panels it will
221. 9:24shut off automatically reset as when the
222. 9:26voltage comes back down and go ahead and
223. 9:28charge again so it's completely
224. 9:30hands-off situation so what about noise
225. 9:32levels while charging now the AC
226. 9:34definitely makes noise we're on turbo
227. 9:36mode Let's see how loud it is it doesn't
228. 9:38seem as loud as the inverter running but
229. 9:41let's see how loud it
230. 9:44is so 49 DB in turbo mode now let's go
231. 9:47ahead and switch this to silent mode and
232. 9:49see if the fans actually completely turn
233. 9:51off or not okay I now have the blue Ed
234. 9:53on silent mode and it's actually not
235. 9:55silent the fans are still running
236. 9:56they're just running in a reduced
237. 9:58capacity
238. 10:01so 44 DB significantly quieter but not
239. 10:04actually silent now let's try the solar
240. 10:06charging does it make noise while you're
241. 10:08charging it with solar all right we're
242. 10:10going to test this on maximum solar so
243. 10:11we're going to pump 500 wats of solar
244. 10:13into it and we'll see does it make any
245. 10:15noise all right see as we found silent
246. 10:18mode I am pushing 500 watts in on turbo
247. 10:20mode via solar and the fans are not
248. 10:23running at all it is absolutely silent
249. 10:25making no noise
250. 10:26whatsoever so when you're charging with
251. 10:28solar you won't hear a thing next test
252. 10:31is going to be simultaneous charging can
253. 10:32you charge it from AC and DC at the same
254. 10:35time in other words can you charge it
255. 10:36from wall or grid power and solar at the
256. 10:39same time for a faster speed some of
257. 10:41these will let you charge them faster if
258. 10:43you plug them into two charging sources
259. 10:46at the same time so let's go ahead and
260. 10:48plug this into AC power first we'll L it
261. 10:52max out at it's 1460 watts and then
262. 10:55we're going to go ahead and pump 500
263. 10:56watts of solar in now when I say solar I
264. 10:59mean virtual solar this simulates solar
265. 11:02cuz all solar panel is is a basically a
266. 11:05power supply now again I'm doing this on
267. 11:07turbo mode so it's going to provide the
268. 11:09fastest charging possible we're at 1460
269. 11:12WS let's plug the solar in and see what
270. 11:13happens now this is the amount of amps
271. 11:15coming out so right now it's zero cuz
272. 11:16obviously I'm not plugged in when I plug
273. 11:19this in watch this number and you'll get
274. 11:21to see how much solar is actually going
275. 11:23into this while AC is going in at the
276. 11:25same time so I hear a click I see the
277. 11:27solar panel icon come up
278. 11:29it's doing a little recalibration here
279. 11:32but it's doing 60 volts at 8 amps and 60
280. 11:35volts time 8.3 amps is 500 WT so it is
281. 11:38accepting 500 watts of solar but very
282. 11:41interestingly it's not charging any
283. 11:43faster it says 1480 WT so it's not
284. 11:46really doing anything to help the speed
285. 11:48but what it's doing is called solar
286. 11:50priority mode so a lot of these power
287. 11:52stations try to be eco-friendly so when
288. 11:55you have it plugged into an AC Source
289. 11:56let's assume that there's a gas
290. 11:58generator or something on the other side
291. 12:01instead of wall power say you're running
292. 12:03a gas generator and you want to save as
293. 12:04much fuel as possible so you plug this
294. 12:06into your gas generator the gas
295. 12:09generator will put less power in cuz
296. 12:11it's allowing solar priority it's
297. 12:13pumping 500 watts in from solar and the
298. 12:16rest is coming in from AC power so it
299. 12:18lowers the amount of power that you use
300. 12:21from the wall or the amount of power
301. 12:23that you use from say a gas or propane
302. 12:26generator so it's like just an Eco thing
303. 12:28it's not really allowing you to charge
304. 12:30it any faster but it does allow you to
305. 12:32at least prioritize solar so what about
306. 12:3412vt output now the ac10 only offers a
307. 12:37single 12vt cigarette lighter socket
308. 12:40output with no other outputs really so
309. 12:42let's test that and make sure you can at
310. 12:44least get 10 amps out of it which is
311. 12:45what it's rated for now you can see here
312. 12:47the voltage is 13.6 volts I know it's
313. 12:49rounded down a little bit but it's
314. 12:51outputting 13.6 volts I have it set at
315. 12:5410 amps if I hit on so you can see it's
316. 12:58pulling 10 amps at 12.4 volt so it
317. 13:01definitely passes this test okay so what
318. 13:03about wireless charging I do have my
319. 13:05cell phone up here which supports fast
320. 13:07wireless charging which is up to 15
321. 13:09watts okay so all you have to do is turn
322. 13:11on the DC and that turns on the wireless
323. 13:16charging now interestingly it is not
324. 13:19fast wireless charging it's actually
325. 13:21slow wireless charging it says it's
326. 13:22going to take like 2 hours to charge my
327. 13:24phone so the wireless charger that's
328. 13:26built into this does not support fast
329. 13:28charging even though it does say it's a
330. 13:2915 watt wireless charger it is pulling
331. 13:3210 watts now I've used other fast
332. 13:35charging power stations and it'll pull
333. 13:3714 15 watts it'll say on my phone fast
334. 13:40charging right now it just says charging
335. 13:42it doesn't say anything about being fast
336. 13:44in 2 hours really isn't that fast but
337. 13:46it's better than a lot of the
338. 13:47competition it doesn't have a wireless
339. 13:48charger at all now what about USB
340. 13:51charging this does offer a 100 wat power
341. 13:53delivery output it's output only you
342. 13:55can't send power into the USB ports on
343. 13:58this I do have a power Bend hooked up
344. 14:00here which can accept 100 wats of power
345. 14:03delivery charging from a USB Source you
346. 14:06can see right here it's actually
347. 14:08outputting 94 watts into the Power Band
348. 14:11now there's always a couple Watts loss
349. 14:13so it does support 100 watt charging and
350. 14:15why this is important is a lot of
351. 14:17MacBooks high-end laptops do require at
352. 14:20least 60 watts sometimes 100 watts of
353. 14:22power delivery charging in fact this is
354. 14:25my favorite way to charge my laptop it's
355. 14:27super efficient going from d C to DC
356. 14:29instead of using your brick that comes
357. 14:31with your laptop to plug it into say
358. 14:34this so when you plug it into this you
359. 14:35actually lose a lot of extra power
360. 14:37charging your laptop than you would just
361. 14:39charging it with a USB cable so if your
362. 14:41laptop supports USB charging absolutely
363. 14:44use it and that goes for any mobile
364. 14:46device really always use the DC option
365. 14:49if you can it saves power rather than
366. 14:51plugging your Apple charger in here plug
367. 14:54it into the DC Port the USB port and
368. 14:56it's way more efficient so what about
369. 14:58pass through charging can you charge it
370. 14:59while you use it it's 2023 of course you
371. 15:02can of course I'm going to prove it now
372. 15:04bluetti does include what's called a UPS
373. 15:06feature basically they use a UPS relay a
374. 15:08switching relay to allow you to take
375. 15:10power from the wall pass it through the
376. 15:12power station without touching the
377. 15:14batteries pass it through to your load
378. 15:16which in this case is a laptop with no
379. 15:18battery in it there's no battery in the
380. 15:20bottom you can see this is where the
381. 15:21battery is supposed to go it's powered
382. 15:23directly from this power supply you can
383. 15:25see the little green light this is
384. 15:26actually plugged into the inverter on
385. 15:29the ac10 and then the power coming in
386. 15:31from the wall going into this is going
387. 15:34through the switch box so I could
388. 15:35quickly switch it on and off so I don't
389. 15:36have to keep plugging and unplugging so
390. 15:38what we're going to do here is I'm going
391. 15:40to show you what happens if you're on
392. 15:42your computer now it's could be a PC it
393. 15:44could be any kind of appliance that you
394. 15:46have plugged into this does the ac180
395. 15:48switch over fast enough to keep a
396. 15:50computer going during a blackend that's
397. 15:52a very important test because the UPS
398. 15:54relay if it's not fast enough and your
399. 15:56computer dies you can corrupt your data
400. 15:59should switch fast enough if it's 20
401. 16:01milliseconds or less so we'll have to
402. 16:04see I'm not sure what blue 8's claim is
403. 16:06cuz it doesn't say anything in the book
404. 16:07about this feature so place your bets
405. 16:10I'm going to go ahe and hit the switch
406. 16:11that's going to cut off the power from
407. 16:12the wall let's see if the laptop stays
408. 16:13on or not I don't know I've never done
409. 16:15this yet so let's let's place our bets
410. 16:17ready 3 2
411. 16:221 guess what folks the laptop's still
412. 16:24running you can see that the power from
413. 16:25the wall is now zero the laptop is
414. 16:28taking 20 26 wats let's turn the power
415. 16:31back on okay and it's now charging from
416. 16:33the grid again laptop is still on let's
417. 16:36go ahead and just repeat the test real
418. 16:38quick 3 2
419. 16:391 okay no problem so the laptop is
420. 16:42staying on now just to prove to you that
421. 16:45the laptop is plugged into the power
422. 16:47station I'll go ahead and unplug it so
423. 16:49what about pass through with solar let's
424. 16:51go ahead and charge it with solar so
425. 16:53here we are charging with our simulated
426. 16:54solar DC turns on AC turns on so you can
427. 16:57use DC USB and AC all at the same time
428. 17:01if you're charging from solar now now
429. 17:02you have to understand it because you
430. 17:04can only input 500 WTS into this port
431. 17:07you can't pull more than 500 WTS in the
432. 17:09power station without it using the
433. 17:12battery now don't confuse pass through
434. 17:13with the UPS feature the UPS feature can
435. 17:15actually handle 1,800 Watts which is the
436. 17:18inverter that's built in so once you
437. 17:20exceed 1,800 Watts it's going to shut
438. 17:23down the inverter and knock your laptops
439. 17:26or computers or whatever else you have
440. 17:28offline so you don't to exceed 1,800
441. 17:30Watts using the UPS feature musician's
442. 17:33favorite amp interference test this is
443. 17:35where we determine is the inverter on
444. 17:37the bluetti clean enough to power a
445. 17:39power amp without making weird Buzzy
446. 17:41clicky noises so go ahead and place your
447. 17:44bets will it or will it not Buzz 3 two
448. 17:51[Music]
449. 17:561 that's so annoying I got to turn it
450. 17:58off
451. 17:59so yeah that's a big fail from the
452. 18:02inverter now you have to remember this
453. 18:03is a budget product they're using budget
454. 18:05Parts they have a budget inverter in
455. 18:07here they're trying to keep the cost as
456. 18:09low as possible for you guys cuz we are
457. 18:11in a financial situation and a lot of
458. 18:14people don't want to spend $2 or $3,000
459. 18:16on a power station you're spending way
460. 18:18less than 1,000 bucks on this and I do
461. 18:20have those iron fite things I got two
462. 18:22here two on the other side they don't
463. 18:24really do anything when it comes to
464. 18:26interference through the core but I know
465. 18:27if I don't have them on here I get a
466. 18:29million complaints that you got to put
467. 18:30the iron ferite on here otherwise it's
468. 18:32going to buz well telling you it's never
469. 18:34made any difference and I've done this
470. 18:36test 50 times now unfortunately it fails
471. 18:39the amp interference test that means do
472. 18:41not buy the AC 180 if you plan to rock
473. 18:43out in your band or use it for a PA
474. 18:45system or ham radio use this probably is
475. 18:48not going to be the product for you
476. 18:50unless you just don't mind that buzzing
477. 18:52noise so what about the app I've shown
478. 18:53the blue ID app several times but we do
479. 18:55a quick 30se second run through you can
480. 18:57see input output SPS solar AC DC uh you
481. 19:02can turn on and off the inverter and the
482. 19:04DC Source down here does have battery
483. 19:06pack of course the ac180 doesn't support
484. 19:08external batteries when you go into the
485. 19:10settings it allows you to share device
486. 19:12turn on and off Eco modes which
487. 19:14basically all that does is it Powers the
488. 19:17the unit down after so many hours I I
489. 19:19leave that crap off you can see here
490. 19:20charging mode this is where you set it
491. 19:22to Turbo normal or silent now
492. 19:27powerlifting is the feature that allows
493. 19:28ows you to run a higher wattage
494. 19:30Appliance and lowers the voltage it can
495. 19:33actually destroy appliances so I leave
496. 19:34it off you can use this feature for like
497. 19:37coffee pots and things that just have a
498. 19:39heating element but never use this for
499. 19:40anything that's got like a compressor in
500. 19:42it like a refrigerator or an air
501. 19:44conditioner because you could seriously
502. 19:46ruin your Appliance this is where you do
503. 19:48the firmware upgrade now I do have the
504. 19:50upgrade done on this and I always do the
505. 19:53firmware upgrade before I test any of
506. 19:56these things and that's all she wrote so
507. 19:58what do I I think about the
508. 20:00ac10 I have to say that I applaud blue
509. 20:03EDI for getting back to its roots the
510. 20:06recent ac60 release which is a super
511. 20:09fancy waterproof battery expandable
512. 20:11power station is a fantastic Innovative
513. 20:14product however the biggest complaint
514. 20:16that I got on that review was that it's
515. 20:19just too darn expensive here we have a
516. 20:21back to the basics good oldfashioned
517. 20:23Power Station without all the bells and
518. 20:25whistles that the rest of the lineup has
519. 20:28it's also in the perfect goldilock sweet
520. 20:31zone of 1200 wat hours pair with an
521. 20:3418800 WT inverter it means it'll run
522. 20:36virtually any 110 volt kitchen appliance
523. 20:39including refrigerators air conditioners
524. 20:41heaters instant pot Skillets and even
525. 20:43large microwave ovens without a sweat
526. 20:46it's also still very tossable at this
527. 20:49size and weight since it's well under 40
528. 20:51lbs you can virtually take it anywhere
529. 20:53so I think BL really hid it out of the
530. 20:55park with this model and this thing is
531. 20:57going to sell like hot cakes let's not
532. 20:58forget it does offer that 20 millisecond
533. 21:01switching UPS relay which is fast enough
534. 21:04to keep a computer and other
535. 21:05computerized electronic equipment going
536. 21:07in a blackout which is something their
537. 21:09aging ac2 200p just can't do that being
538. 21:12said it's not a perfect offering I'm
539. 21:14sure some folks are going to miss that
540. 21:1625 amp dc output that's offered on the
541. 21:19ac200 series and that 30 amp RV hookup
542. 21:22on the ac200 Max and notice they didn't
543. 21:25include an RV hookup on this they
544. 21:27certainly could have squeez it in but
545. 21:29again cost cutting features there's also
546. 21:32only one USBC port and no Quick Charge
547. 21:35ports again save a few bucks here pass
548. 21:38it on to the customer but that's exactly
549. 21:41what the ac80 is all about it's about
550. 21:43keeping that price as low as possible so
551. 21:46more people like you can afford it just
552. 21:48think of this as the Big Mac of power
553. 21:50stations now every single video people
554. 21:52ask me how long certain appliances will
555. 21:54run on these power stations and I really
556. 21:57can't answer that question because every
557. 21:59Appliance is different but let's say
558. 22:00you're going to plug in a standard
559. 22:02medium-size energy star rated household
560. 22:04refrigerator that consumes about 700 W
561. 22:07hours a day and that's pretty standard
562. 22:09you can simply use some basic math to
563. 22:10take the wat hours of the power station
564. 22:12divided by 700 W hours and that basic
565. 22:14math gives us 1.6 days of run time now
566. 22:17let's take an example of a standard
567. 22:18microwave that uses 1,800 Watts you can
568. 22:21expect about a half hour runtime on this
569. 22:24a 1,000 WT Skillet or instant pot you
570. 22:26can expect about an hour a 15 00 wat Cur
571. 22:29coffee machine will run for about 45
572. 22:31minutes straight which should give you
573. 22:33enough coffee to keep you away from now
574. 22:35until you actually receive your AC 180
575. 22:38in the mail so hopefully this answers
576. 22:40your questions about runtime product
577. 22:42price and this is where things get good
578. 22:46the ac10 is launching today at the
579. 22:49stupid low price of only
580. 22:52$7.99 this is for 1152 W hours and an
581. 22:551,800 wat inverter now this stupid price
582. 22:59is only good through the month of June
583. 23:00and then it's going to bump up to the
584. 23:02mid 800 Buck range for a short time then
585. 23:04finally land around 950 bucks which I
586. 23:07think is still a fair price considering
587. 23:09this does have an 1800 watt inverter
588. 23:11that can run virtually anything in your
589. 23:13house but wait there is more because
590. 23:15bluetti of course offered me a discount
591. 23:18code that will knock a few more bucks
592. 23:19off but that codee's only going to be
593. 23:21good through the month of June and then
594. 23:23they're going to Nix it and you're going
595. 23:25to be paying whatever you got to pay so
596. 23:27if you're waffling on getting the ac10
597. 23:30don't find yourself disintegrating in a
598. 23:32vat of syrup while you make up your mind
599. 23:35because that 799 price is only good for
600. 23:38a very short time now what about the
601. 23:40competition uh obviously if I don't
602. 23:42mention the Eco flow Delta 2 I'll get
603. 23:44flamed in the comments that is the
604. 23:46direct competitor to the AC 180 and they
605. 23:49offer a smaller 1 KW hour battery but
606. 23:52does match the 1800 watt inverter
607. 23:55however the ecof flow is selling for 200
608. 23:57bucks more that's a big deal when you're
609. 23:59only paying $7.99 while the Delta 2 does
610. 24:02offer an expandable battery not
611. 24:04everybody wants to use that feature and
612. 24:06that costs a lot of money to implement
613. 24:08and the ecoflow battery is so overly
614. 24:11expensive and it can't even be charged
615. 24:13on its own making the whole battery
616. 24:15expansion thing virtually moot you
617. 24:17essentially get better USB support on
618. 24:20the Ecco flow and trade for the wireless
619. 24:22charging on the bluetti and another 200
620. 24:24bucks in your pocket that makes the ac10
621. 24:27the clear winner here now as for
622. 24:29recommended solar I do recommend
623. 24:31sticking with bluetti panels especially
624. 24:33if you're on the move if you're always
625. 24:35traveling with this running it around
626. 24:36setting it up just spend the extra money
627. 24:38on the good folding panels they're high
628. 24:41quality high output and I've had no
629. 24:43problems with mine and I actually use
630. 24:45mine in the rain dirt and dust of the
631. 24:48desert now you can either get a pair of
632. 24:50their pv200 panels and put them in
633. 24:52series that will charge this really fast
634. 24:54or just get a single PV 350 it really
635. 24:57depends on how much you want to spend
636. 24:59however if you want a more permanent
637. 25:01solution that's actually lower cost I
638. 25:04would recommend the B RV 180 wat or 200
639. 25:07watt solar panels or the Renegy 300 watt
640. 25:10glass panels which can be found on hobot
641. 25:12tech. tv/ Amazon under solar kits of
642. 25:16course I have that link in the
643. 25:17description of this video so if you're
644. 25:19interested in the ac10 the link and
645. 25:22discount code will be in the description
646. 25:24of this video below I'm also going to
647. 25:26put a link right here at the bottom of
648. 25:27the screen you can type in manually
649. 25:30along with a QR code you can scan on a
650. 25:32mobile device that'll take you on over
651. 25:35to the blue Edy store Page where you can
652. 25:37check out the newest bang for the buck
653. 25:39power station on the market the AC 180
654. 25:43thanks for watching if you learned
655. 25:45something today don't fore to give me
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657. 25:48subscriber already you know what to do
658. 25:52that's it for now till next time
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662. 26:05box okay I just found out that blue Edie
663. 26:08is launching the
664. 26:10ac10 one full day earlier than what they
665. 26:14told me two weeks ago so now I have to
666. 26:17be in a mad rush to finish this for
667. 26:20launch and that means of course lots and
668. 26:23lots of coffee cuz I'm probably going to
669. 26:25be up till about 5:00 a.m. to do this
670. 26:27video so
671. 26:30cheers let's get
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