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0:00today my friend I'm going to spend some
0:01time in this video showing you something
0:03real nice like if you like rving
0:06off-roading camping if you have a power
0:08outage you need some portable power
0:09running power tools on the work site
0:12wait till you see what I'm about to show
0:13you today you see my best friend forever
0:16I've done a lot of videos on power
0:18supplies portable power power Banks
0:20solar generators whatever you want to
0:22call them some have been really good
0:24some have been really great some of them
0:26been really crap but you see my friend
0:29the one I'm going to show you today it's
0:31not real crap it's not real great it's
0:33actually real nasik which is way above
0:36real great it's on a whole another level
0:39so what exactly do we have here today
0:42this is the brand new blue Eddie
0:46ac180 now I've been testing and using
0:49abusing this power station for the past
0:51couple weeks and this is probably the
0:53best I have ever used so stick with me
0:56and I will tell you everything you need
0:58to know about this unit so the first
0:59thing I noticed was even though this is
1:01a msize power station 1,800 Watts 1152 W
1:05hours the thing is light I have other
1:08units that are around the same size
1:10power-wise but the weight of them are
1:12like twice as heavy as this I actually
1:14have a bruised rib right now I am weak
1:16and feeble but like one person no issue
1:19carrying this thing around like all day
1:21so being lightweight easy to maneuver
1:23and still having a ton of power in this
1:25thing a lot of people including myself
1:27have been looking for something like
1:28this so let's turn this thing on we'll
1:30show you how to use it all the functions
1:32and we'll talk about some of the
1:33technology that comes in here and why
1:35this thing is as good as it is all right
1:38so here's the front face very simple to
1:40use and what I love about this is
1:41usually on a lot of the other units that
1:43I've tested on this channel you got to
1:45play with the power button you got to
1:46push in the power button hold it for a
1:47couple seconds hopefully it'll kick on
1:48or kick off if you don't shut it off
1:50correctly it drains your power it's a
1:52nightmare this right here you just hold
1:53that in for not even a second and it
1:56automatically kicks on the screen screen
1:58is super bright in any situation
2:00now if you go in the dark super bright
2:03you're out in the sun you can see the
2:04screen no issues now I know you got some
2:07reflection but look at that screen right
2:09there now it will tell you what mode
2:11you're in the input how much power you
2:13got going in charging this thing and the
2:15output how much power you have coming
2:16out charging other devices or running
2:18other devices it'll also tell you how
2:20much power you have left on that batter
2:21R so right now we're at 100% or 99.9
2:25hours but that'll fluctuate depending on
2:27what you are discharging now before I
2:29actually show show you all that you got
2:30the DC button you simply push that your
2:33DC comes on now you can charge your
2:35phone up on top you got a 15 amp output
2:38just put your phone up on top it'll
2:39charge like so and then you got your AC
2:41power which you can turn on the exact
2:43same time simply by pushing that button
2:44look how fast that comes on though no
2:46more no more of this trying to push it
2:48and then hold it in look look how fast
2:50this is going on off on off this is
2:53Fantastico now you can see both of these
2:56on so we have everything running we can
2:57charge our phone up on top you got the
2:59outlets you got four of them 1,00 WTS
3:01total up here you got your 3 amp you got
3:04your USBS two got your 3 amp two more
3:07and you got your USBC 100 watt these run
3:10on the DC power so if you want to run
3:12these you just hit the DC make sure it's
3:14on we just turn it off but you can see
3:15it lights up green so even in the dark
3:17you can see this signal is lit up
3:19telling you that your power is either on
3:21or off and of course this is your AC
3:23ports over here so if I wanted to run
3:25these or turn these off you would use
3:27that button right there and they really
3:29updated this unit now it used to be that
3:31blue Ed you had to have like a special
3:33you know charging port and all no now
3:35you just plug this Barrel into this
3:38right here and you can see you can plug
3:40these right into your solar panels and
3:42just let me show you this on the side
3:44real quick and they made everything easy
3:46to get to which I like so on the side
3:48here not too far away from your panel so
3:50you're not always turning this box
3:51around well here's another update that
3:53they made it used to be that you had to
3:55have that special plug-in adapter you
3:56had the charging brake well no more they
3:58got rid of the power br on this unit so
4:00now you just plug in directly from your
4:02extension cord or your outlet into the
4:04unit and yeah this comes with the unit
4:07so you just open this up it's protected
4:09waterproof all that good stuff plug it
4:11in and now you can just plug this into
4:13your wall outlet and charge it up it's
4:14roll nicely and the last two things on
4:17the side here is you do have your
4:18circuit protector you can reset it here
4:20and you have a grounding pull that you
4:22can put right here all right so let's go
4:24ahead and use and abuse this a little
4:26bit and I'll show you this discharging
4:27we'll run a couple different things on
4:29here and
4:30well you get the point all right so
4:32let's go ahead and start plugging some
4:33things in here and I'll show you how
4:35this discharges and I'm going to show
4:36you how crazy fast this thing is to
4:38charge which is another huge Improvement
4:41all right so a lot of us using power
4:42tools off grid and such so this right
4:45here is a rii not Ryobi it's the 18vt
4:48rapid charger and we got a big old 12 ah
4:52with no power in it so let's go ahead
4:54and put this
4:56in and now this thing's going to kick on
4:58and start charging and let me show you
5:00all right so this thing's starting to
5:02kick on you can see the number starting
5:03to jump it's telling you how much output
5:06you got going on right now now the other
5:08nice thing about this it is pure sine
5:10wave technology so if you are charging
5:12your electronic devices on this you
5:14don't have to worry about anything
5:16damaging because of the fluctuations in
5:18your current so this is like top of the
5:20line great stuff and again don't have to
5:22worry about computers laptops phones
5:24anything you know damaging all right you
5:26can see this is charging up let's throw
5:28a couple other things on there all right
5:30so what we have right here is a double
5:32rapid charger from ego so you're doing
5:35Lawn Equipment got your bat Rays running
5:38out of juice on the job well this is how
5:40you can charge them all right so
5:42currently we're pulling 111 through 114
5:47Let's uh plug this bad boy in see what
5:50this
5:51does and this is going to jump up this
5:54right here you can see both of these are
5:55charging at the same
5:57time now we're going
6:00690
6:027
6:04750 where you gonna go
6:06eight
6:09810 all right so we're going around
6:12around 810 800 so we'll get average at
6:15805 now you can also see because we're
6:17drawing a lot of power out of this it's
6:19telling us we still have 1.7 hours of
6:22runtime on this even though that does
6:24say 99% this is going to start dropping
6:27pretty quickly however if I pull this
6:29out watch it'll
6:30adjust that time so it goes back up to
6:337.6 hours I'm only charging the rovi so
6:377.8 hours and it will jump in real time
6:40so depending on what you have plugged in
6:42it's going to let you know how much
6:43power you have and even though we are
6:45pulling 800 we still have a th000 more
6:48that we can use out of this all right
6:50now that we got those charging up let's
6:51take a look at the vacuum anybody's ever
6:53use a shot back knows that you're
6:55pulling a lot of power through one of
6:57these shot backs you need the energy you
6:59need for suction now the worst thing
7:01that could happen is we pull too much
7:02cuz I'm I can't remember what this pulls
7:05but if it does pull too much all you
7:07have to do is simply reset that which is
7:09easy to do I'll show you but let's see
7:11if we can run this at the same time now
7:13we're at 1620 so it's it's pulling the
7:19vacuum
7:22impressive I didn't think it was going
7:24to do that let me unplug these and see
7:25what this is running vacuum wise only
7:28all right we just plug the vacuum in by
7:30itself there's nothing else here going
7:33on and you're pulling what
7:36940 Watts so that's a lot for a sweeper
7:39however you can see it went down to 0.9
7:41I'm trying to drain this down a little
7:42bit because I want to show how crazy
7:45fast it is to charge it back up but uh
7:47before we drain it let's let's check out
7:49the fridge all right so let's check this
7:51out and here's another really important
7:52thing to have these for us if there's a
7:53power outage you need to keep your
7:54freezer or your refrigerator running so
7:58it's 90° out right now and my fridge is
8:01going and we can reset this here on the
8:03app I'll show you that here in a bit
8:05however it's saying that it's only
8:06pulling 137 that is with the cool down
8:08so if the fan kicks on might raise that
8:10up a little bit bring it down but not by
8:12much looking at 6.3 hours and we have
8:15had this down to
8:1691% so you're looking around 7 hours on
8:19a run for a single charge on this and
8:22you can see the lights are on and
8:23everything's working real nice like now
8:25you're saying to yourself well this is
8:27only going to give me 7 hours on a full
8:29char charge for my refrigerator freezer
8:32if there's a power outage but that's if
8:34you're not hooked up to the solar so you
8:35can continuously recharge this while
8:37you're discharging so here's another
8:39reason why these are so awesome this is
8:41like a little mini fridge now this
8:43version here has its own F Ray system
8:44but you can also plug this in a lot of
8:46the ones that you buy on the market
8:47today they don't have internal builtins
8:50so you have to plug them in that right
8:52there will keep your stuff course if
8:53you're rving UTV going a trail keep this
8:56on the trailer keeping it in the back of
8:57your truck working out on the job site
8:59you want to keep your drinks your
9:00sandwiches in there all that good stuff
9:02telling you it's awesome to have one of
9:03those speaking of the power tools this
9:05is a circular soft Flex now this one
9:07here you can plug in or it is battery
9:09Opera we got this plugged in we're going
9:11to plug it into our unit real quick so
9:13we have been charging we're at
9:1582% uh we do have the saw plugged in so
9:19let me pull the trigger on that and see
9:21what this does right here three a two
9:30[Music]
9:39[Music]
9:47wow all right H interesting I have no
9:50idea what I was pulling here I have to
9:52watch it back on the video by now I
9:54shall know that this did pretty Rin n
9:56like because I had no issues running my
9:59might saw right here you remember even
10:02stuff like this like the work fans
10:04you're sitting out in the camping the RV
10:06sites or work sites or whatever you're
10:08doing so you can run the fan on this but
10:10the other thing I want to point out is
10:12this is super freaking quiet the thing
10:13you're hearing now this charger right
10:15here this one is the one that's making
10:18all the noise with the fan the blue
10:19Eddie you're not having any issues
10:21sleeping around this thing you're not
10:23going to hear it all right here comes
10:24the fun part we're down about 43% we've
10:26been using abusing this we're down a 0.7
10:29hours left now we're going to talk about
10:31the charging and the internals of this
10:32thing all right so we're going to start
10:34charging now I have a bunch of different
10:36solar panels but my favorite are still
10:37from the blue e e i uh I've been using
10:40and abusing these for a couple years now
10:42and they do a really good job EAS to set
10:44up so that's what we're going to use why
10:46is that sun
10:48faceing so bright so this is a 200 W
10:51solar panel from Blue Edie and again you
10:53can hook multiple up if you wanted to
10:55really simple how it works so you're
10:57just going to plug in the piece that
10:58they give you
10:59that plugs into the unit into the solar
11:03panel so super simple and then the
11:05barrel end is going to plug into that
11:08right here now what you're going to see
11:10is the Watts on this side the input
11:12start to increase so 26 94 so we do have
11:16a little bit of cloud coverage today but
11:18what's cool about this is I'm only
11:19putting in like 142 Watts right now on
11:21the input output I'm still putting out
11:23like 960 however it does slow this down
11:26a little bit so if you are running your
11:28refrigerator you're going to get more
11:29usage if you can charge this during the
11:31day now the cool thing is not only can I
11:33charge this with the solar at the same
11:35time I can charge it with my plug so I'm
11:37going to plug that in it's already going
11:39into the back of the unit or the side of
11:40the unit now I'm charging from the
11:42outlet and the solar at the same time
11:44we're around the 1720 input for this
11:47unit which is really really freaking
11:49good and to tell you we're putting in
11:51twice as much power as we're taking out
11:53almost and this will actually start
11:55charging you can see this is charging
11:57now but let's talk about the charge time
11:59so I'm going to unplug this real quick
12:01I'm going to show you how fast this
12:02thing charges so we're at 34% let's just
12:05give this a little bit of time now I
12:07disconnected this unit I want to show
12:09you while this is charging up we're
12:10going to add the device to the Blue eddi
12:13app it's very simple just add device hit
12:16add device it's going to scan
12:18automatically and it's going to pop up
12:20there it is and then just hit okay I
12:22already have one blue eding on there
12:23it's
12:24ac180 hit start and now that's how quick
12:27it was to put that on there and then
12:29we're just going to connect it with the
12:30Bluetooth now while that's charged we'll
12:32talk about this but we're already up to
12:3437% and I've only been doing this
12:36literally a couple minutes this is how
12:38fast it's charging so the production
12:40with the solar 144 watts and then on the
12:43grid that's telling me how much I'm
12:45getting being plugged in it's 947 943
12:49I'm already at the 38% you can see this
12:51climbing literally as we're talking
12:54crazy fast charger it has the life po 4
12:57B rays in there which is crazy you can
12:59turn your DC on your AC on whatever
13:02right here over here battery pack gives
13:03you all the information so basically
13:06everything is run from a flick of a
13:08finger on your cell phone when you're
13:11operating this from the app so that is
13:13also let R nice like so I literally just
13:17shut off the app turned the camera off
13:18and then turned it back on again we're
13:20already at 40% you're plugging this
13:22thing in you're getting the most you can
13:24out of it by plugging it into the grid
13:26but with the solar additional to that
13:28I'm telling this thing is it is quick
13:31however it is not as quick as it can be
13:34you can go into your settings and you
13:35can go to standard turbo or silent mode
13:38so you can charge this completely silent
13:40or you put it on turbo and it just I'm
13:44it's nut watch watch this jump you're at
13:47now around 1,700 watts in and a unit
13:51this size I mean that is I'm telling you
13:53that's blistering fast that is
13:55definitely 100% grade a real nice like
13:57and we're still discharging 7 like 40 so
14:01we're charging faster than we're
14:02discharging in 3 hours too full now a
14:05lot of people might say they don't want
14:06to go turbo all the time it's because
14:08it's going to damage battery and all
14:10that stuff okay fine you don't have to
14:11do this all the time but if there's an
14:13emergency situation where you're
14:14charging this up for a family member
14:15that might be out of power and you need
14:17to put this on a gas generator to hurry
14:19up and get some energy in there well
14:21there you go that's why you got the
14:22turbo and just to let you know on the
14:24turbo you're going to hear this thing
14:25more it's going to kick that fan on keep
14:27it cooler but on the silent mode you
14:29ain't hearing this thing at all now I
14:31just shut the camera off bent down to
14:33talk to you hear him we're at 45% so
14:35that's how fast this thing is charging
14:36and again what's nice about that is if
14:38you have that emergency situation where
14:40you need to really get this charged up
14:42quickly and then go hook it up to a
14:43refrigerator you can do that but if
14:45you're just using this out on the work
14:47site or maybe just around the house or
14:50camping or rving got the solar panels
14:52out all day well you don't need that
14:53turbocharging and you just charge it up
14:55slowly it trickles in and then you're
14:57ready to go at night time do wish they
14:59would have added one more SE Port but it
15:02is what it is I really do like the looks
15:04of this it looks like the bluetti but
15:06just more redefined more Sleek things
15:08super light to carry around and it got a
15:10lot of power 1,800 Watts for this thing
15:13with this size is really impressive and
15:15again everything's customizable to the
15:17screen brightness to the timing out of
15:19the screen shutting things off turning
15:22things on adding more power taking some
15:24power away everything from a flip of a a
15:26finger right here on your cell phone and
15:29it's it's just so easy to use not to
15:31mention super easy to connect the inside
15:33you got the good grade bat Rays you know
15:35you got the life po 4 you know this is
15:37listen blue Eddie did a really good job
15:39on this I I I've tested a lot of these
15:41things out including this brand and
15:43there's some I just was not impressed
15:44with this right here it is super real
15:46nice like so I want to know what you
15:48think about this unit and if you're
15:49planning on getting it I'll leave a link
15:51in the description below for you to
15:52check it out always love hearing that
15:53sweet sweet feedback of course we'll be
15:55back more videos soon

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