Oupes Mega 1 The Answer to Your Emergency Power Needs?

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@keith9875 Ай бұрын

I have been a Jackery fan for years. I recently bought the OUPES Mega 1 and I am pleasantly impressed. I use it every chance I get powering household and kitchen appliances in order to gain a knowledge base to be used in a true emergency situation. I consider it to be well worth the money.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

That's awesome!

@YouLookinAtMe-Bro Ай бұрын

I'm not sure how long I've been subscribed, but I've watched quite a few of these cool videos, and I'm just now realizing how much Eric sounds like Burl Ives! I love my Oupes Mega 1 and probably my Pecron e1500lfp even more. Be safe all🙏

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

Thanks! Playing with that Pecron now and I like it!

@ElectrabuzzXD Ай бұрын

I've heard so many good things about this brand, it's time to really consider getting one. Thank you 👍

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

Yes, I was very impressed and it's light weight may make it my go to travel unit.

@jdollar5852 Ай бұрын

I have 3 power stations. 2 weigh less than 20 pounds, but only supply 250+- watts. The other weighs closer to 60# and has 2k watts. I can carry the 60# with no problem, but my wife struggles to carry it from room to room by herself. She's camping this weekend with a friend in N GA with temps getting to the 30s and they took the AC200MAX. They cooked on a griddle, charged phones, ran lamps, and ran an electric blanket last night, and she said it was at 56% this morning. The griddle used 1700 watts, so I can see that. I am actively shopping for a mid-size station that weighs in the 30# range that she will be able to handle more easily. I'm also going to install a DC to DC charger in her SUV so she can charge it fairly quickly. She has a car charger, so they can put some power back into the unit as they drive to their hiking spots today. We do our own freeze-dried meals, but I personally think freeze-dryers are a bit of a gimmick. That $2500 could have been better used on a couple of new guns and a new silencer:) I'll check out the Oupes. I'd like to be able to use an expansion battery, but they just charge far too much from Bluetti or Ecoflow. I use basic 12v batteries for expansion, but that's a bit clunky to carry around.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

That sounds like a great setup, and you are right those expansion batteries are pricey!

@budmartin3344 Ай бұрын

The input power feeding the charging circuit of the Opues will be higher than the power that is being put into the battery due to charger conversion loss, it has to convert 120VAC to DC Voltage to charge the battery, the Watt meter on the Opues is not for showing the AC input power.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking

@theo-avl Ай бұрын

I'm in Asheville, NC. I was without power for 13 days. I use CPAP and this was a major hassle. I did have an about 280 WH battery but had to spend way too much time trying to charge it. I plan to buy a better battery soon. I'm thinking about this Oupes. I would like to know that I would be able to CPAP and be able to sleep for at least a week if I ever need it again.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

I run my cpap on a Jackery 550 and it uses between 50 and 100wh overnight depending on Temps etc (I use it for camping/overlanding and power outages). The Oupes has twice the reserve power without an extra battery.

@theo-avl Ай бұрын

@@TheOldJarhead Thanks for the info. Which CPAP? Are. you using humidification? Earlier this year I bought a Transcend Micro CPAP. Since the storm here, I bought a DC cable for the CPAP to decrease power. I'm hoping with all this I can end up knowing I have a week of power for the CPAP. I can't sleep without it. It would have been nice not to have these concerns while dealing with everything else.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

First, sorry to hear about all that! How'd you make out? My Uncle is there as well, I guess he did ok. My 4x4 club sent a check off to 828strong.com (not much, just $1600 but we hope it helps someone out). Heck, if I weren't 3200 miles away I would have brought some power stations over! As for me, I'm running a Resmed Airsense 10 and 1st tested w/o heat and humidifier and I believe that's when it used 50wh overnight. I put it in airplane mode and run it off DC. With everything on it seems to use about 100wh so the Oupes should run it a long time! Specially with a backup battery. And ya, I don't sleep without mine either! Are you a vet?

@theo-avl Ай бұрын

Thank you for sending help. I’m sure it helped people. I came out of this well. I live only a half mile from extreme destruction, but I live 120 feet higher than the river so many people got so much worse. Thanks again for the information. It seems that the Opes would theoretically last about 10 days in your situation. That’s good to know. I found their black Friday sales and it looks like I can get one of these for about $388. Seems like a good deal. I am not a vet. I could not go in because of some vision issues. However, my mother and father were Marines and I was born at Paris Island.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

That's a great price. Wow! It's a good unit for sure and the price.

@briankeithwood Ай бұрын

my travel is the river 3 - but I might should update to the Oupes.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

Ya, those are good for running a CPAP or charging a phone or two but with 1/4th of the reserve power and even less output capability the Oupes makes sense (specially at the Black Friday sale price!)

@donttrickimtricky.8567 Ай бұрын

@@TheOldJarheadwhy this over delta 2 and bluetti ac70?

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

The Bluetti has less reserve power and half the inverter and while the Delta 2 is expandable and has a good name the Oupes is a little less and more expandable from what I've seen and the Delta 2 has a little lower charging as well (plus the Oupes ads huge solar input on expansion batteries so ya, I'd go Oupes between those.

@HorseRadish403 Ай бұрын

Looking for a budget one if a family needs one to borrow. Not getting my ecoflow

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

This would do it and for $450 it's a good unit. The Aferiy does very well with twice the power at $900 and I'm testing a Pecron which is performing well and fit in between them

@vevenaneathna Ай бұрын

after watching the pandemonium of hellene, i bought some kit for me and my partners cars. folding 14 inch chinease saw, 10w usba solar panel, pump water filter, 12v car port to 65w usbc charger (one with a boost converter), set of comb picks, aynesku uvk5, and i finally finished building the IFAKs i was assembling. a few of these items forgotten in everyones trunk would have made all the difference. already had bought about 30gal worth of gas cans. currently building 500wh powerbanks with 12v plugs. you dont have to have a lot of money to do the bare minimum of prepping. most prepper type people would stick their nose up at these preps, but cheap stuff is stuff you can stash in your car and forget about. only cost about 50 bucks for the most important items. remembering how many people were straight up trapped in their cars becaues of all the downed trees and ended up wasting most of their gas and worsening the shortage because they were charging their phone from their car with the engine on or trying to get info from their cars fm radio got a couple of the butane can appliances that are popular in korea. space heater for 20 bucks and an okay regular flat style mini stove. the cans go on sale for around 1$ each at the asian stores, way more realistic to put a dozen days worth of cooking and heat away than propane.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

agreed

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

If a person is truly wanting to be prepared for something, that is a great way to do it. Prepping has gone mainstream now but a 40 years ago...ok 45 LOL it wasn't uncommon to think that way in the North. You just know you could be stranded and always carried something to make that easier and survivable. Even in Telecom as a Route Tech on a fiber network the company provided a smallish box of supplies. We didn't think much about power but water, food, candles (for heat more than light), a blanket etc were all part of the kit. One never knows and it doesn't take a lot of money. That's why I showed you could use a Marine battery box and small inverter for most things in a previous video.

@mikejobellafatto9659 Ай бұрын

The saw was running at no load. Not an acute test.

@mr.c6674 Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

True, but it was a quick test to show the unit running.

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

It's always a crap shoot -- use the PS for actual stuff or run a heater and something else just to see what it does but usually I prefer to actually use it like I would in RL.

@thekiltedsawyer Ай бұрын

I saw this couple & watched there story. Is your channel moving away from milling??

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

Not entirely ;) I haven't been able to run the mill like I used to so there will be more videos on the cabin (when I can get there more often again) and off grid power etc but milling will always be a part of it.

@thekiltedsawyer Ай бұрын

@TheOldJarhead awesome 👌 Good deal

@thekiltedsawyer Ай бұрын

Maybe another milling video with Kevin??

@TheOldJarhead Ай бұрын

lol he wasn't doing much but I have been trying to get with a few others.