Gear Review - Bluetti EB3A Portable Power Station - Camping Colorado

[@WesLovelace]

It may be small but having multiple charging points makes having a fridge and lights easily accessible.....Now the trips to the woods aren't so much about ruffing it any more....LOL!!😎

[@RestlessWonderer]

I know... it is getting close to being something different than old school camping :)

[@robdavis4209]

Awesome setup...description of 12 volt chest combo fridge? Thank you.

[@terryw.milburn8565]

Looks Like A Great Battery Bank & Solar System. Thanks For This, Scott ! Stay Safe Friend ! ATB T God Bless

[@julesl6910]

It's a great lightweight system to use with a foldable camping solar panel. The feature not really discussed here is it's a newer generation of lithium batteries called lifepo4 that can be charged many more times and can handle lots of abuse before losing any capacity. I have a "100 watt" solar panel that also puts out about 60-70 watts on average. It's most useful during the day as you get clean energy to power stuff like TV's, gaming systems, charge all your devices - at the end of the day the device will likely be at 100% charge. During the night you can expect it to last a few hours, you can definitely power some LED bulbs all night or something like that. But don't expect it to have insane capacity. Also it works as a UPS if you want it by your bedside to power something like an alarm clock or sleep apnea thing.

[@Yehoshuasministries]

@ Restless Wonderer Backpacking could i plug in my truck battery charger into this to charge my ford f350 powerstroke diesel batteries?

[@mrhalfstep]

I'm afraid you don't seem to understand the power lift mode. It doesn't provide 1200 watts, ever, and it doesn't convert to a non-pure sine wave output, ever. That's just plain incorrect. What it's supposed to do, is maintain 600 watts even if a device normally requires more wattage. Most inverters would kick out on over amperage protection, but this one doesn't. It is supposed to do that, by the dropping output amperage down, while maintaining the voltage. It is supposed to do that, in such a way that the device always gets 600 watts, even if it works, normally, on a higher wattage. Bluetti warns that this is only for devices such as a coffee maker or toaster, appliances that just provide a resistive load and don't have electronics or motors, as a space heater or small AC unit would have, so don't plug any high power electronic in if they require more than 600 watts. (a powerful amplifier, for instance). The reason I keep saying "supposed to" is because it doesn't do as promised. I have two of these EB3A units and have used the power lift mode to brew coffee with a 5 cup Mr. Coffee machine. It's rated at 650 watts. The coffee maker will make a 10 oz (that's two cups on the machine) cup of coffee in 2 minutes when plugged into the wall and but it takes 4 minutes when plugged into the EB3A. It claims about 475 watts, on the display, while it is brewing and 5 watts after the brewing. It isn't exactly what Bluetti promises, but it does work, just don't expect 600 watts to go into appliances that require as little as 50 watts more than the normal 600 watt limit. The wattage cuts way back, but it does keep running, sort of. I think that if you actually tried to make toast with your toaster, you would be disappointed. The coils won't glow and therefore won't toast. You were estimating the Amp Hours on the battery inside the unit and that isn't important. What you really need to know is that if you run this thing at the full 600 watts, it will only run for about 26 minutes. With just a 268 watt hour capacity, at 120 volts output AC and ignoring all the loses in the electronic conversions, I think the Amp Hours would be 2 1/4 AH.

[@mrhalfstep]

I just watched your previous video on the camping kettle and you revealed that it was a 500 watt kettle. In this video you said that you were going to test the power lift mode on the EB3A with that kettle. You didn't do that at all, since the kettle has to draw more that 600 watts for the power lift to kick in. I came here to get information, but twice you left it up to us, the viewers to tell you about the features on this unit. I didn't find that very helpful. Sorry.