I want an Oupes Mega 2 with 2 solar panels, but like you said those portable panels are more money.

Could you please test an electric blanket with these batteries too? It would be good to know if I could use this setup for emergency power outages to stay warm.

Great work this video was awesome!

I appreciate you showing what it means to wire things in series vs parallel, it's cool to learn something like that!

Good job. Nice simple looking presentation, but obviously was more complex than it seems. Showing the basic numbers (watts then run time) is very useful.

The solar panel does not come with the fuse, the spc suggests that you can install your own fuse with fuse rating up to 15A. BTW, the Bluetti inverter will darw about 15W of power when it is on and no AC load connected, so you need to factor that into calculated the run time. 8:07 that is normal for PTC (Positive Temperature Coefficient) heater to draw high current when power is first applied, as it is heated up the resistance will go up so the less current will be flowing thus less power darw. Do not use Power LIfting mode on sensitive electronics equipment, it is only good for resistive Loads.

For just a little bit more money, you can get the Pecron E 1500 LFP which is 1500 watt hours with a 1500 watt inverter and 4000 W surge for $588 The bluetti AC 180 is $459 for 1000 watt hours The DJI 1000 is like $390 on Amazon Get the biggest power unit you can right now why it’s on sale and get the panels later

$40 for an XT60 connector and solar connectors is insane

The more we get dependent on electricity, the more the government will try to control us by increasing rates.

No testing on gaming pc?

you must own a lot of solar panels and batteries. Have you thought of doing wind power?

I wonder why Victron doesn't have such mobile solutions?

That TV uses 160 watts?!? Is it OLED? My 43" LCD TV uses about 45 watts. That's awesome that tiny power station can handle your refrigerators compressor startup surge!

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It is because the blender has a motor, the motor takes extra power to start up.

Simple and brilliant

Thank you 👍🌞

Use a manual timer

This guy is amazing

Can you use this as a passthrough? Like leave it hooked up to the solar panel while in use?

Must watch!! Most useful info on the net.

Thanks for the video! I think the “power lifting mode” actually just lowers the output “voltage.” so it can technically run conductive things at like 100-110 volts or something. so it could damage something with electronic control chips inside or other sensitive electronics.

This is great, this is the kind of information that i needed on Solar Panels and Generators. Yes $1000 dollar setup next! :-)

Now we need to discover a way to charge batteries and we are all set!

Super interested in solar charging! I hope i can get into it soon!

I think with a shorter charge cable it would be faster

I like your video it’s full of information 👍

I really like your presentation in this video, I'm tempted to get a setup with all the Black Friday deals

I grabbed a River 2 with a 45w portable panel for $189 from Amazon. Seemed like a good deal. I can grab a bigger panel at a later time.

28 volt max in on solar controller is really low. I would like to see at least 60.

😊cool

Been really enjoying these! Tempted to figure out how to make something like this work on my apartment roof😅. Keep it coming!

Could you test some aliexpress pure sine inverters ?? That would be interesting as a video 👍

Was about to fall asleep but I guess I'll watch this first

Who wants to see a $1000 setup video? 😄 Watch the $250 setup video here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e33Vgpitfd2doJI

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Dang that is 2.5 times higher than our cost per kw including transmission charges.

HAHA. These will never save you money. The cost, the inefficiency, they short lifespan. Stop this nonsense.

Something not really well explained in this video is Inverter Efficiency. The guy in the video does allude to this by saying that it uses more power for it "to do its thing". Right off the bat for me, and purely mathematically, the opening images showing 36 [offpeak] vs 58 [peak] cents will be in a best case scenario more like ~43 cents vs 58cents because of power losses converting AC to DC and then later from DC to AC again. Basically you'll end up using ~20% or more power at the wall on offpeak hours charging up the power station and then later taking that power through the power station's inverter during peak hours, with the inverter (taking power from DC battery back to AC alternating) being the biggest hit. Because you'd be using ~20% or more power from your housepower, you will need a sizable difference in offpeak and peak hour rates to pay off the cost of the power station and smart plug within ~10 years, and if you have any failures of power stations or smart plugs to the point that they need to be replaced, you will be set that much further back. For consideration: I know many people will prefer a fuel driven generator for power backup, but if you live on the 5th floor with no balcony, some kind of power station that you can run inside of your living space might be nice for power outages where as a generator may not be an option at all on the 5th floor with no balcony. Another component not discussed in this video and deserves its own financial analysis is that if you do lose power, the UPS or power backup option demonstrated in the context of the smart plug cutting power, would still be in full effect for a legitimate loss of power, saving potential cost of food going bad.

Anytime you invert AC to DC or DC to AC you will lose energy! Plus the Power Station uses energy itself just to be ON! My peak 4-8PM is 37 cents and Midnight - 6AM is 2.2 cents.

Well, hopefully, in the future more of our appliances will be smart enough to basically act like a batteries, cool your house before the peak power rate cooler fridge before the peak power rates charge up a battery on a lamp before the peak power rates lately I’ve been wondering why there’s AC in the house at all except for motors because everything gets converted to DC seems like such a waste and that in the future houses will come with DC wiring and AC will become an oddity because everything is converted to DC except for motors anyway the AC is noisy, in terms of EMF and waste, electricity

A fridge was like the worst possible test for this.

This is very cool, thanks for the video Alex. Respect to Doug and all the work he's put in his system!

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2:40 that's what she said

"I want to know what it's limits" But it's written in specs, didn't it?

always remember that the inverter that are on these power supplies take power to convert dc to ac. that is why you see an increase in usage in this case. currently my ecoflow ultra pro, runs my tv's and my home computer system. and i have set it to use 50% of the battery before it will start to charge from the grid. on days like today where it is cloudy my panels are not going to be enough to get it to charge. I'm still testing its limits as i just got it this past month, this summer will be interesting as i will be able to power more with it.

Exactly the video i was looking for

Saving money on electricity costs by manipulating the time of use depends entirely on your prices at each time of use. Little price difference -little saving. Which as you demonstrate may not cover the energy lost in the storage and recovery. Where I live (UK) the low rate is always 1/3 of the main rate so there is a big saving to be had. I'm looking into a system with possibly 15 - 20 KWh of storage. That way I can draw all my daily consumption at low rate and use it at peak rate times.