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All powers who have done videos for I

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did a video for their UH I
think it was a five hundred two and

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fifty or five hundred what power station
in the past. Thank you, Electra.

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You just blocked all the sun from
the solar panel. Thank you.

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They sent me this four hundred watt
solar panel. And when I woke up

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this morning and went out to the
deer stand to go hunting because it's the

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last weekend of regular hunting season in
Texas, there was total cloud cover in

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the sky. But the sun decided
to show itself about an hour and a

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half or so ago, and I
thought, there's not a cloud in sky

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now, Wow, perfect opportunity to
get that out, plug it up,

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see what it's doing, and wow, check that electroc come on seriously,

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okay right now it's showing to be
pulling in two hundred and fifty eight watts

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of solar input. Watch that meter
on the left, it's at eighty six

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percent right now, eighty seven percent. It was sitting at about three hundred

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and ten watts when I turn the
camera on. So I wonder if,

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of course the sun the sun is
constantly moving in the sky, or the

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Earth is constantly turning. Sorry,
flatter Earth, guys, but that's just

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how it is. Are you seeing
this charge indicator go up on the left?

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Ninety one percent? It was at
seventy percent when I started and plug

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the panel into it. So two
hundred and forty eight watts of solar input

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right now, go have anything blocking
it? No, there's nothing blocking it,

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and there's the sun, there's no
clouds in the sky. But it

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was it was pulling in like three
hundred and ten watts. Maybe it's slowing

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down on purpose, because hey,
look when it gets it's at ninety five

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percent already it's charged fifteen no,
twenty five percent in the last five minutes.

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That's outstanding. Makes me wonder how
accurate that seventy percent was when I

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first saw it. And of course
now it's going to drop to zero because

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it shows the battery to one hundred
percent. That is pretty freaking cool right

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there. You cannot complain with that. This is the All powers Are fifteen

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hundred solar generator Slash power station with
their four hundred what fold up solar panel

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what some people in the overland world
have often called I've heard called a solar

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blanket because it's not completely flexible,
but it folds up into like a pad,

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so it's not like a rigid solar
panel like you put on top of

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your house either. This is the
largest fold up portable solar panel that I

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own so far. My largest prior
to this one was the fold up three

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hundred WAT Explorer panel from Gigaparts.
Now I will say that this one is

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heavier, and when it's all folded
up all the way, it's about twice

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the size of the three hundred what
from Gigaparts. So if you're looking for

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small in compact, this is probably
not it. But if you're looking for

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overland RV, something to put in
your car, something to take out on

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parks in the air, even if
you're driving up to your parks on the

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air activation even if you don't get
the solar generator. This might be a

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really great option for you. This
one also has dual wireless chargers on the

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top of it, which I've seen
before. There goes ha ha, Okay,

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so you have to turn on DC
output down here and then it it

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did pop just then there it goes. You see that sixty five percent my

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phone's out, So wireless charging for
two phones on top of this one.

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I've had power stations in the past
where it had one on top. Smaller

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power stations, this one has two
and over on the side here we have

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the input regular computer plug right there, and this is an XT sixty plug.

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These cables come with the power station
XT sixty plug. Off of the

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back of the solar panel itself are
these MC four connectors. So it comes

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with this cable that goes MC four
to XT sixty. It also comes with

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another cable that's MC four to to
the round barrel connector similar to the bio

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window barrel connector. And then on
the right hand side over here, and

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I really like this because to open
these doors, you press on it and

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it pops out, so you don't
have to grab it and pull it real

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hard. And these are extra ports
where you can plug in one or two

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extra batteries on top of this one
and expand the capacity of that for clarification

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on the cables. What I forgot
was that the power station comes with this

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bag. Now, I really like
it when these companies send bags with their

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systems, because you're gonna have cables
with a solar generator, with a power

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station, with whatever, and a
lot of companies just that I that I've

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gotten solar generators from. They'll just
send me a cardboard box with the power

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cables in it. And you know, you open the car, you don't

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want to carry around the stupid cardboard
box. It eventually falls apart, so

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you don't have any You're left with
nothing to carry the cables in this one,

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All Powers actually puts a bag in
it. Now, this bag came

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with the power station. The cable
that I was showing you earlier with the

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XT connector XT sixty connector came with
the solar panel. So the solar panel

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is the one that comes with an
MC four to XT sixty connector, and

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it comes with the second connector MC
four to various barrel connectors. I'll show

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that to you here in just a
second. The power station itself comes with

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something totally differ, including the AC
one hundred and twenty vold AC plug that

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I spoke of that I showed you
the port on the back of the unit.

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So let's take a look right now. I'll show you exactly what everything

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comes with. So the cable on
the back of the unit is the MC

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four to XT sixty and this exact
same cable comes with both units. The

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one that's on the back of the
unit right there, right now is the

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one that came with the solar panels. This one right here came with the

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power station itself. You can buy
these separately, that's why. So you

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can buy the power station and put
your own solar panels on it, or

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you can buy the solar panel and
connect it to something else. Just make

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sure it's got at least a four
hundred what solar charge controller built into it.

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This cable comes with both devices right
there. This cable is the multi

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barrel connector cable that comes with the
solar panels. Okay, so you've got

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the barrel connector that's right in there, and then it's got an adapter to

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go from there. And I think
that's the only two that it has just

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two different adapters in there, and
there's MC four on the other side.

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The actual power station itself comes with
that BF one hundred and ten hundred twenty

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volt A C cable, and it
comes with this really cool bag right here,

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plus a second one of these,
which I'm using on the system right

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now. So in other words,
you get these two cables with the solar

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panel, and you get an XC
sixty to MC four cable plus this cable

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plus this bag with the power station. For some reason, it took me

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longer to say that than it should
have. So there is the front of

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it right there. I'm trying not
to look into the sun too much.

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We've got two USB A three out
ZHO quick charges right there. Those are

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blue shared eighteen watts, and two
USB c PD one hundred ports right there.

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It has a bracket around it,
so I don't know if these are

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one hundred one hundred wats each or
shared one hundred watts, but either way

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that's pretty good. Of course,
it's got the cigarette lighter adapter right there,

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and then it's got four of your
regular power plugs that are that is

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a pure sine wave inverurter AC output
one hundred twenty volts eighteen hundred watts total,

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and you can turn that on right
there and turn that off right there

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on the back. There's really not
anything at all. That is a very

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cool I tell you what, I'm
more excited about the solar panels than i

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am about the box itself, because
I've got a lot of these solar generators

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now, and the all powers one. The first one I did, it

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was a five hundred. It was
a five hundred. What that's okay,

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I've done too many of these.
I still have that one. It still

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works today. I don't use it
all the time, but I've used it

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several times since that video. We
were in Galveston when I recorded that video.

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I'm remembering that now, so we'll
probably do some overlays on the video

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here. But had really good luck
and they were happy with the video,

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so they sent this to me.
So special. Thanks to them. Appreciate

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them allowing me to review this.
You're going to see this four hundred WAT

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panel used in some more videos because
the power station is cool. I really

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like it. It works well.
I assume it'll probably be just as good

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a quality as the five hundred what
they sent me. So we'll be using

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that more in the future as well. But that being a fold up four

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hundred watt solar panel, we're going
to take that into some PoTA activations.

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I got to figure out what solar
charge control because I was going to use

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my buddy Pull Power Mini too,
but that thing limits out at one hundred

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and sixty watts, and I think
the biolinal I have limits out at three

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hundred watts. And I think the
Wanderer, the Energy Wanderer solar charge controller

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that I have, which is MPPT, I think it also limits out at

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three hundred watts. I got to
go find a new solar charge controller that

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will handle four hundred wats of solar
power. Guys,