Vtoman Flash Speed 1500 - Portable Power With A BARGAIN PRICE

[@RickandHeather]

As always folks I do an open and honest thumbnail and description with any review I do, I’ll never ask you for money to “buy me a coffee” or “Patreon” etc on here, these reviews cost you nothing and I get some reward for the channel. If you don’t like reviews please don’t watch, if you leave negative comments I’ll just remove them. It’s fine to share a bad experience with a product so we can help others avoid buying things if they are bad but don’t slate me personally for selling a bit of advertising. My first question to anyone who offers me an item is “do I have free reign to say as I see”? If it’s a no I don’t take it. Thanks Rick

[@StephenLatimerWoody]

in Canada this unit goes on sale on amazon for about 800 CAD. I picked up the extra battery today for 550 CAD from thier website. Thanks for the real life use review. :) We had a major storm here on the west coast and it came in handy with a power outage.

[@RickandHeather]

You’re welcome, glad it helped! It still freaks me out that people so far away see me on KZbin 🤣 🇨🇦

[@colinnewmarch1106]

Very in depth, review, interestingly the price drop on their website , think I will stick to what I have got

[@RickandHeather]

Cheers I try to do a fair review 👍

[@alanbone6653]

The most informative review, great to see the real usage for different appliances. Also interesting to see the solar challenges. Great descriptions of each operation.

[@RickandHeather]

I really appreciate that thank you 🙏 there are many technical videos but on the whole “normal” buyers want to see these things being used by normal people

[@alanbone6653]

It was useful to know about the solar setup, I have a 120w Falcon panel and was interested to know if I could use it to charge the Flash Speed 1500. Apparently not! 😂😂

[@RickandHeather]

@@alanbone6653 only through that bullet connection I added on the insert video.

[@lynnbateman7571]

Thanks for your usual honest opinion, we’re looking to get a power bank so using your videos on them for good reference 👍🏻

[@RickandHeather]

Glad to help!

[@user-nz6nz5np3x]

Great honest feedback as usual.. well done Rick

[@RickandHeather]

🙏 thanks appreciate it.

[@andrewthemis451]

Thanks for another informative video, glad we stumbled across your channel.

[@RickandHeather]

Thanks 🙏 welcome aboard we’re glad to have you 👍

[@rwstarke]

Why not leave the solar input connector in all day?

[@JonCompass]

Thank you for this video, very useful. I guess that when you plug in to be the vehicle's 'hookup' it will also be re-charging 12v battery(s), and for optimum usage you should have plugged the microwave etc directly into it so that's all it's being used for?

[@RickandHeather]

I turn off the onboard charger as it uses 400w of power, it makes no difference plugging in to the “van” or directly as in effect the van becomes an extension lead.

[@NBNatureTrailvan]

Interesting Rick. A couple of hundred cheaper than an Ecoflow Delta which we have. A few less features than the Ecoflow too. But a full in depth review mate - fascinating to see how much it depletes from various appliances. Safe travels 👍👍

[@RickandHeather]

Yep, you pays your money I guess. It’s a basic bit of kit obviously built to a budget but if you know what you’re buying it does the job, I’m trying to do as in-depth as I can, anyone can read the blurb on the website and repeat it to camera but real use is way better I think 😊

[@NBNatureTrailvan]

@@RickandHeather 👍

[@cathrynbagley8005]

That's what I call a proper review, although I don't think nearly enough tea was drank. Good to know you can charge the unit at the same time as using it - we recently plugged our Allpower into our van to run the fridge (just to see if we could in case the gas ran out) but we couldn't charge it with the solar at the same time.

[@RickandHeather]

Thanks 🙏 I just get fed up of seeing a review where people plug a drone a phone and a camera in and say it’s the best one ever… If I’m showing you all something I like to use it. 😊

[@cesarcastillo8983]

Hi, i was looking for a solar panel test in the DC charge port, what open Voltage had your panel? And you can use anderson (400w) and Dc(200w) to get 600w max solar input? At same time. I would really appreciate It ❤

[@RickandHeather]

I did do a bit on the bullet input (200w) as it was the only way to charge using one panel at the voltage I had singularly (around 35v open I think) when I went in via Anderson I had to link the two to make the 60v plus required to work but obviously using mismatch panels I lost wattage 400w in max I think but I linked a 200 & 100 so probably only got about 250? They never sent me any of their 60v panels to test so I had to improvise, no idea if you can dual input unfortunately as I couldn’t test without more panels.

[@darrenpardoe]

Thank you for the review Rick, enjoyed it. As you have now tested several of these power banks, would you be interested to add the efficiency of each unit whilst charging & discharging? Its a very important point as by the time a battery is charged & then discharged, especially with the inverter a huge amout of energy can be lost/turned into heat. As with electric cars, there can be a large variance. Thank you.

[@RickandHeather]

I’m not sure how I’d do that really 🤔 I’m not going to purchase testers and stuff to do what is basically a walk through, I already do more than the supplier “asks for” I thought my “angle” of showing use in a van with percentages used would be helpful. There are many techie channels that test these in that way.

[@markjhoyle]

Hi. Why wouldn't you just connect in an inverter and maybe add an extra leisure battery. If you already have a solar panel? Just looking for ideas? Thanks Rick.

[@RickandHeather]

If you want to you can but this is versatile, if not camping you can use at home or in the garage and have power cut back up?

[@VandromedasTravels]

Only real issue I'd have would be the socket orientation. If you have trip-enabled plugs on (like you get with the Ninja Woodfire Grill thingy), the cable gets compressed on the surface the unit sits on. Aside from that, seems very canny for the price.

[@RickandHeather]

Yep, the only option sometimes is a short trailing lead to adapt certain plugs, we have to do that occasionally on the Afiery we use. As you say for the price it does the job.

[@averilsykes9467]

When you plugged the VTOMAN into your motorhome, does it charge your habitation battery too?

[@RickandHeather]

I turned off the habitation charger for the test but it would if you wanted to, the victron charger in our van draws around 400w if it’s turned on.

[@LeisureBit]

Interesting unit, hopefully they will send you the other bits and bobs - the storage box on the top looked handy as you’re right you loose things. Was it as noisy as it sounded or were you really close? All the best, David 👍

[@RickandHeather]

It was as noisy as it sounded!

[@peakycap4255]

Dc input is compatible with solars plug?

[@RickandHeather]

It uses an Anderson input for solar but needs to be over 36v if I recall. You can go in via the cigarette input at up to 24v as well

[@peakycap4255]

@@RickandHeather so should be okay I recon, would like to use bluetti solar panel with vtoman power station

[@RickandHeather]

@peakycap4255 I had to link 2 allpowers to get the voltage as for some reason the Vtoman runs higher inputs on Anderson. I now just go in through the dc in but limit the watts

[@peakycap4255]

@@RickandHeather Anderson plug on higher woltage is way safer connection (heat)

[@jlowe1973]

I've had a VTOMAN Flashspeed 1500 for 8 months, now runs down to 70%, then immediately drops to zero, so it really only has about 400 w capacity, is this expected? Can't seem to contact company, am I really stuck with this expensive brick?

[@RickandHeather]

I’ve no clue sorry, I used mine for the review but rarely use it now, it’s really just a back up. I’ve had a few people say they’ve had problems, unfortunately I have nothing to do with the company and my reviews are based on the product when I use it and it was adequate at the time.

[@stephenhughes6974]

real life, thanks a lot

[@RickandHeather]

Thanks for watching hope it helped

[@AdventuresWithEllie]

I had 2 of these and both sadly stopped working. One lasted a few weeks the other wasn't working out the box. They both stopped Charging. Vtomans customer service is very slow although they did give me a refund in the end. I know a lot of people are having trouble with the flash speed 1500 there returns department is full. 😞

[@RickandHeather]

Ahhh that’s not good! Unfortunately I can’t help because I just get asked and if it interests me I review it, it’s cheap for a reason I suppose (we paid almost twice as much for our EcoFlow) sorry you had a bad experience, so far this one’s been ok.

[@AdventuresWithEllie]

@@RickandHeather It's not your guys fault at all 😊 It's just I found this power station through KZbin and bought it worked for 2 weeks and was brilliant. Went to charge it before VanLife Festival and it wouldn't charge via AC. It was 1 line emails back per day from Vtoman took a good few weeks to get a replacement, not the lightest thing to be messing with. As soon as I plugged in the replacement it wouldn't charge. So back down the post office to return after waiting for a return label and finally got a refund. I got the return images from DPD and there was tons of these being returned. And the Vtoman groups full of people with same or similar issues. It is a shame as I also have the Vtoman 600x which is brilliant no problems at all.

[@RickandHeather]

@AdventuresWithEllie at least you got there in the end then! Safe travels ❤️

[@jcmartinezfassio]

I sadly had a similar experience and mine stopped working just short of a week of usage. It first started to flash a code "03" and wouldn't power the fridge, a few minutes later a popping sound and smelled like something got burned. Contact CS and they sent me a return label for an exchange. I haven't received the other unit yet, I probably won't be able to return it since I took it out of the US so tough luck for me. No complains on their CS, just regret to not have bought a more reliable brand.

[@RickandHeather]

@jcmartinezfassio sorry to hear this, admittedly I just review what I see, I don’t really get to find out about aftercare on these things, it’s why I show the item over selling the item, I’ve not used this since the review it’s just sitting in the garage as a standby if we have a power outage…. Let’s hope it still works!

[@karlospappy8908]

Thought I'd stumbled across a shopping channel, if you start flogging lingerie I'm off😂😂😂 😂Cheers K.

[@RickandHeather]

I’m doing reviews as I see fit to avoid “buy me a coffee” “patreon” and “onlyfans” 🤣 but seriously I’ll always make it easy for people not to watch by having an honest thumbnail. Best I can do. 👍