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is the petron Peak roun what the proper pronunciation is six power station that was
sent to me by these folks, and it's pretty cool. Been testing here
for about the last hour or so and setting it here with my IC seven
oh five, just kind of listening to some twenty meters. It's amazing,
which you can hear on that MFJ telescoping antenna plug directly in there. I
had to turn my trailer off to get good at some of the RFI,
but I wanted to test this. Now. Let me show you this right
here real quick. Ever since I did my first power station solar generator video
a few months ago. I get knows from people asking me to make videos
for their products, and that's what happened with these guys. This one comes
in this nice little kit. This case comes with the power station. Obviously,
the power station itself won't fit in there, but this case comes with
it and it houses all of the connectors and charging cables for the unit.
So I really like that. I really like the fact that this case.
Some of them just come with like a cardboard box that gets easily destroyed if
you're going to put it in a pack or something. Other ones don't come
with anything. This one actually comes with a nice protective case for your charging
station. This guy right here is a lithium ion charger. Output is forty
two volts at seven amps, so that'll do some serious charging right there.
This is a proprietary plug this guy right here for the power station itself,
so that goes to MC four connections. This one will allow you to charge
it via cigarette lighter adapter if you want. This is my favorite one.
Of course, it come it actually comes with power poles. I didn't make
this, it came with it, so you got your proprietary connection for the
power station, and you can plug directly into power poles. Oh, the
gigaparts panels have power poles on them, and some of the other panels that
I have have power poles on them for a solar panel set up, So
you can do it that way if you prefer. But I always always like
to point out when power poles are included from the manufacturer in one of these
setups, because, as you all know, that's what most of us uses,
power poles. This is the front of the unit. Now I've said
this before in multiple videos, but a lot of these guys use the same
screen across all these different brands of our stations. This screen is actually different.
It's just it's not better or worse or anything. It's just different.
It's just what different than what I'm used to seeing on a lot of these
other power stations. So we've got two twenty six point four volts and two
hundred and three hours on the battery right now. That's because nothing's plugged into
it. So you can hit DC out here. It's one hundred percent hit
that again, twenty six point four volts, one hundred percent power and the
AC out if you hold that down, it turns on these plugs here and
it pops up a new meter on the screen there, so you can have
that off and on. Over here, we've got an eighteen watt and a
one hundred watt pd USBC port that's kind of fun, and an eighteen and
two eighteen watts USBA ports, and then we've got these twelve volt ten m
ports for DC output right here. This is these are proprietary or not proprietary.
These are those standard barrel connectors that you have, and of course that's
a cigarette lighter adapter. These are the input ports with the proprietary connector.
That one there is the standard barrel connector, the cable that I just showed
you what the MC four connectors would go in there, and then the proprietary
connector they have goes in there. So thirty two to ninety five volt max
on that one, and then twelve to eighteen volts one hundred wat max on
that one, So that one's obviously not as big, but it'll take a
four hundred watt solar panel to charge it. That's pretty fun. That's pretty
fun. I think the coolest part about this is the built in like that's
just painted on right there, and that's a wireless charging port for your phone.
Take my phone right there and you can see it just came up on
the screen. There we go. So now my phone is charging just by
sitting it on top of that station. So that'll be awfully useful in the
campsite or in the gazelle tent or even even in the RV camper here.
Plug in whatever you need to that and then set your phone on top of
it. You don't need an extra cable, you don't need an extra port,
you don't need an extra anything to charge your phone. You can save
these for your radios or your light packs, battery packs whatever. I like
to do RFI tests on these, So we're gonna plug some stuff into it.
I want to plug in a USB cable to charge the phone and see
if it affects the screen on the seven or five right there. We can
see what we're seeing on the on the waterfall right now. We're outside,
so there's a little bit of glare in the screen, but we've got we've
got a pretty good, pretty good signal coming in. Not too much noise
on the band today with the MFJ telescopping twenty meter and tenna right there.
Tell them n plug a couple of things in. Got my phone plugged in.
It came up and it said it was charging. Unplug it there and
plug it back in, just so it's on camera right there, and there's
no difference on the waterfall, so charging USB is not going to really show
any difference on the waterfall. So that's good. I was hoping to charge
my r Finder P ten tablet, but it takes a pretty beefy output power
to charge that thing. I think this hundred USBC port would charge it,
but I don't have a USBC to USBC cable with me. I would need
USBC on this end and on that end. I don't have it with me,
so I'll be interested to that later unless I can find a USBC to
USBC cable. I'm gonna plug this in because I can charge the Rfinder tablet
from the adapter, from the AC adapter it has. We're gonna try that
next. All right, Turning on the AC causes noise in the band.
You see that waterfall noise is going away. I'm gonna I'm gonna hold down
this AC button on this and let you guys, watch the waterfall next there
it goes. Now, this is not unusual for DC to ac inverters to
do this. And I've got these two guys sitting right next to one another,
so we're gonna I'm gonna grab that radio bag and walk away with it
here in a second. But I'm not even charging anything right now. I'm
gonna plug in my Rfinder tablet and yeah, some more noise came up when
I plugged that in. It's got twenty one watts out right now. So
if I unplug this so you can see all that changes. Yeah, drops
down to zero zor wat's out. Plug this in takes it a second to
update. That's normal eighteen watts out sixteen about sixteen hours. It'll stay on
this. This battery will charge this for sixteen hours, which it won't take
that long. That's just how much battery life you have left. But it
is puking all over the band. You can see that right there. So
now the question is what's the proximity of RFI on that thing? If I
were to take it over there and set it down, what it do is
badly or what? So let's try that. It's pretty much gone right,
here, I'm ten feet away from it. I can still kind of hear
it. But the waterfall, the waterfall is clear right there. It's completely
gone. Maybe twelve feet yeah, not far at all. So it's not
like I gotta walk a quarter mile out that way to get the RFI out
of the I have a waterfall, and this is a vertical antenna. If
you put up a longer wire antenna and strong it's for a longer path over
here, you probably have a bit more interference and that's going to play a
factor into it as well. But to me, you know, most AC
inverters DC to AC inverters cause RFI. I've yet to find when it doesn't
without spending a lot of months. But I mean, you know, that's
it is what it is. So it just depends on what you want to
if you want to use DC output on that power station. Most of the
time, I think you're gonna be okay. Because we didn't have any trouble
with the USB charging and whatnot. It was only when we turned the acon
that we had that come up. But you can see that it's not very
far away and you can totally use that. Just keep them a little bit
separated. If you want to do it that way. Once again, special
thanks to Becron for sending me this power station. Pretty impressed with it so
far. One thing I didn't show is that all the ports are on the
front here, and I've mentioned that about other power stations in the past.
I don't particularly like when there's ports on two or three or all four sides,
because then you've got wires coming out everywhere. And in some situations that's
okay, but like, if you're gonna put this in the corner of a
tent, if you're gonna use it camping, you're gonna put it in the
corner of a tent. Now I can stick it over there in the corner.
I just have all my plug in connections going into one side and kind
of back it up to the back corner of the tent, and I'll have
to worry about wiring stuff around and going out of the tent and whatnots I
really like the wireless charging for the phone on it because that means you don't
have to have an extra cable for it and that kind of thing. These
kind of semi rubber feet that are on it right here allow you to set
it down not only in proper configuration, but you could set it on its
back if you wanted to, like that, if you want. Oh,
I've just heard the noise come up because I moved it. Nice polarization,
baby. But you could set it on this back right here if you wanted
to. You could set it. I guess you could set it on its
front. I don't know why you'd want to, but if you set it
down on its front for storage or something, this these protective feet kind of
keep it from scratching up your screen and whatnot, so pretty much a win
win. I'm pretty happy with it, looking forward to using it on my
next camping trip and we'll see how that goes. Thank you for watching today.
Put a comment below and let me know what solar generator slash power station
you're currently using right now and what you think about it. Seventy three