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being a member of the community. All powers who have done videos for I
did a video for their UH I think it was a five hundred two and
fifty or five hundred what power station in the past. Thank you, Electra.
You just blocked all the sun from the solar panel. Thank you.
They sent me this four hundred watt solar panel. And when I woke up
this morning and went out to the deer stand to go hunting because it's the
last weekend of regular hunting season in Texas, there was total cloud cover in
the sky. But the sun decided to show itself about an hour and a
half or so ago, and I thought, there's not a cloud in sky
now, Wow, perfect opportunity to get that out, plug it up,
see what it's doing, and wow, check that electroc come on seriously,
okay right now it's showing to be pulling in two hundred and fifty eight watts
of solar input. Watch that meter on the left, it's at eighty six
percent right now, eighty seven percent. It was sitting at about three hundred
and ten watts when I turn the camera on. So I wonder if,
of course the sun the sun is constantly moving in the sky, or the
Earth is constantly turning. Sorry, flatter Earth, guys, but that's just
how it is. Are you seeing this charge indicator go up on the left?
Ninety one percent? It was at seventy percent when I started and plug
the panel into it. So two hundred and forty eight watts of solar input
right now, go have anything blocking it? No, there's nothing blocking it,
and there's the sun, there's no clouds in the sky. But it
was it was pulling in like three hundred and ten watts. Maybe it's slowing
down on purpose, because hey, look when it gets it's at ninety five
percent already it's charged fifteen no, twenty five percent in the last five minutes.
That's outstanding. Makes me wonder how accurate that seventy percent was when I
first saw it. And of course now it's going to drop to zero because
it shows the battery to one hundred percent. That is pretty freaking cool right
there. You cannot complain with that. This is the All powers Are fifteen
hundred solar generator Slash power station with their four hundred what fold up solar panel
what some people in the overland world have often called I've heard called a solar
blanket because it's not completely flexible, but it folds up into like a pad,
so it's not like a rigid solar panel like you put on top of
your house either. This is the largest fold up portable solar panel that I
own so far. My largest prior to this one was the fold up three
hundred WAT Explorer panel from Gigaparts. Now I will say that this one is
heavier, and when it's all folded up all the way, it's about twice
the size of the three hundred what from Gigaparts. So if you're looking for
small in compact, this is probably not it. But if you're looking for
overland RV, something to put in your car, something to take out on
parks in the air, even if you're driving up to your parks on the
air activation even if you don't get the solar generator. This might be a
really great option for you. This one also has dual wireless chargers on the
top of it, which I've seen before. There goes ha ha, Okay,
so you have to turn on DC output down here and then it it
did pop just then there it goes. You see that sixty five percent my
phone's out, So wireless charging for two phones on top of this one.
I've had power stations in the past where it had one on top. Smaller
power stations, this one has two and over on the side here we have
the input regular computer plug right there, and this is an XT sixty plug.
These cables come with the power station XT sixty plug. Off of the
back of the solar panel itself are these MC four connectors. So it comes
with this cable that goes MC four to XT sixty. It also comes with
another cable that's MC four to to the round barrel connector similar to the bio
window barrel connector. And then on the right hand side over here, and
I really like this because to open these doors, you press on it and
it pops out, so you don't have to grab it and pull it real
hard. And these are extra ports where you can plug in one or two
extra batteries on top of this one and expand the capacity of that for clarification
on the cables. What I forgot was that the power station comes with this
bag. Now, I really like it when these companies send bags with their
systems, because you're gonna have cables with a solar generator, with a power
station, with whatever, and a lot of companies just that I that I've
gotten solar generators from. They'll just send me a cardboard box with the power
cables in it. And you know, you open the car, you don't
want to carry around the stupid cardboard box. It eventually falls apart, so
you don't have any You're left with nothing to carry the cables in this one,
All Powers actually puts a bag in it. Now, this bag came
with the power station. The cable that I was showing you earlier with the
XT connector XT sixty connector came with the solar panel. So the solar panel
is the one that comes with an MC four to XT sixty connector, and
it comes with the second connector MC four to various barrel connectors. I'll show
that to you here in just a second. The power station itself comes with
something totally differ, including the AC one hundred and twenty vold AC plug that
I spoke of that I showed you the port on the back of the unit.
So let's take a look right now. I'll show you exactly what everything
comes with. So the cable on the back of the unit is the MC
four to XT sixty and this exact same cable comes with both units. The
one that's on the back of the unit right there, right now is the
one that came with the solar panels. This one right here came with the
power station itself. You can buy these separately, that's why. So you
can buy the power station and put your own solar panels on it, or
you can buy the solar panel and connect it to something else. Just make
sure it's got at least a four hundred what solar charge controller built into it.
This cable comes with both devices right there. This cable is the multi
barrel connector cable that comes with the solar panels. Okay, so you've got
the barrel connector that's right in there, and then it's got an adapter to
go from there. And I think that's the only two that it has just
two different adapters in there, and there's MC four on the other side.
The actual power station itself comes with that BF one hundred and ten hundred twenty
volt A C cable, and it comes with this really cool bag right here,
plus a second one of these, which I'm using on the system right
now. So in other words, you get these two cables with the solar
panel, and you get an XC sixty to MC four cable plus this cable
plus this bag with the power station. For some reason, it took me
longer to say that than it should have. So there is the front of
it right there. I'm trying not to look into the sun too much.
We've got two USB A three out ZHO quick charges right there. Those are
blue shared eighteen watts, and two USB c PD one hundred ports right there.
It has a bracket around it, so I don't know if these are
one hundred one hundred wats each or shared one hundred watts, but either way
that's pretty good. Of course, it's got the cigarette lighter adapter right there,
and then it's got four of your regular power plugs that are that is
a pure sine wave inverurter AC output one hundred twenty volts eighteen hundred watts total,
and you can turn that on right there and turn that off right there
on the back. There's really not anything at all. That is a very
cool I tell you what, I'm more excited about the solar panels than i
am about the box itself, because I've got a lot of these solar generators
now, and the all powers one. The first one I did, it
was a five hundred. It was a five hundred. What that's okay,
I've done too many of these. I still have that one. It still
works today. I don't use it all the time, but I've used it
several times since that video. We were in Galveston when I recorded that video.
I'm remembering that now, so we'll probably do some overlays on the video
here. But had really good luck and they were happy with the video,
so they sent this to me. So special. Thanks to them. Appreciate
them allowing me to review this. You're going to see this four hundred WAT
panel used in some more videos because the power station is cool. I really
like it. It works well. I assume it'll probably be just as good
a quality as the five hundred what they sent me. So we'll be using
that more in the future as well. But that being a fold up four
hundred watt solar panel, we're going to take that into some PoTA activations.
I got to figure out what solar charge control because I was going to use
my buddy Pull Power Mini too, but that thing limits out at one hundred
and sixty watts, and I think the biolinal I have limits out at three
hundred watts. And I think the Wanderer, the Energy Wanderer solar charge controller
that I have, which is MPPT, I think it also limits out at
three hundred watts. I got to go find a new solar charge controller that
will handle four hundred wats of solar power. Guys,