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being a member of the community. Anker has a brand new backup power system
that was just recently launched, called the Anker Solex F thirty eight hundred.
Let's take a look at this and see how it might be beneficial in times
of power outages or blackouts, or even get my shadow out of the way,
even for taking the ham shack off grid stick around. For a long
time now, I've talked about taking my ham shack off grid. Let me
step back into the sun where you can see me. And anchor sent me
this power station. They sent me an email and they're like, hey,
we've seen some of the power station videos you've done. Would you like to
do one on hours? And they showed me the specs on this thing and
I was like, Wow, that thing looks really cool. I would love
to be able to use it on the hamshack or maybe even the RV trailer.
Now, the first thing I noticed that it's on wheels. Okay,
so we've got I'm trying to stay out of this out of the shade as
much as possible. So we've got wheels here, We've got feet on it
right here to where you can lay it down on the side, and it's
got to pop up handle like that right there, which is really neat because
it's got large wheels on the back. So these are all the cables that
come with it. Set those aside for the moment there so we can wheel
it around like this. Okay, it is a very heavy unit. This
is not something you're going to pick up and take with you to a campsite
or something like that, or you know, have laying around and just grab
and go type thing. It don't it's not made for that. This is
made so that you can put it in a room or a helm back up
and just leave it there. These It has these rotating casts on the front
that lock down like that, so it's a little bit harder to roll it
around once you get into the place, and it has this really good display
on the front. All right. I moved it could not see the screen
in the sun, which again, this is not made for outdoors. This
is made for your home backup. You're gonna put this in a garage,
in a closet. In this case, I'm gonna put it in the corner
of the ham shack, probably underneath my desk. But if we hold the
power button down for kind of a long time, really it will come on
there. It goes right there. If the screen starts up eighty three percent,
Okay, that's pretty good. Right there, you can see we've got
three USB C ports on the front, plus two USBA and blue, so
presumably those are quick charged three to dot zero. Little safety tip, real
quick. If you're going to install a generator or a solar system of some
sort, maybe a solar panels, battery backups, something like that, you
can't just plug that into your breaker box grid. It can cause problems with
sending power back up the line. It can cause problems with the power company.
It can be dangerous and you could actually kill somebody if it's really done
improperly. So always check with a licensed provider to install what's called a transfer
switch, which i'll show you here in a minute. Anytime you're wanting to
plug in any type of backup power into your house, such as a generator,
solar generator, battery backups, anything, solar panels, anything like that
at all. The company that ran the electricity when I have the hamshack built
like twelve or fifteen years ago, I'm gonna call them and see if they'll
install a transfer switch in my hamshack for me, because I already have a
breaker box in the hamshack they put that in. Originally, we ran a
line from the house to the hamshack, breaker box professionally installed and all that
kind of good stuff. It's worked great ever since. I've had zero issues
with it. So I'm gonna call that same company and get them to install
the transfer switch. That'll be done in a different video, so when you
have the transfer switch, it'll go in there. So this is an expansion
to expand the battery capacity this right here, it's called the F thirty eight
hundred. It's thirty eight hundred and forty watt hours with a built in six
thousand WAT inverters. You can plug six thousand watt of appliances into it.
It will scale up to twenty six point nine watt hours. Six expansion batteries
in there, it'll do almost thirty thousand watt hours of capacity. It's got
twenty four hundred watts of solar input between these two, allowing for charge of
eighty percent and just about about one point five hours depending on sunlight, so
twenty four so you can do twelve hundred watts into each of these, and
that's about sixty amps into each one of those roughly, depending on what you're
doing. So that's freaking rat I mean, even if you used one of
those, Holy cow, if your power consumption at wherever you're plugging this into
is low, you could probably get away with one of those. That is
freaking awesome right there. So again that's the is a car socket on here.
I don't know why you would want car socket. It's just a cigarette
lighter adapter. So obviously you're not gonna be carrying this thing around your car.
Probably. Here's the and the other side of it right here. Let
me move it out of the sun. It has this specialized plug right here
with the cable that I got I'll show you in a minute. This goes
to the transfer switch. So you're plugging into the house of the transfer switch.
This looks like a standard two hundred and forty volt plug right there,
twenty five amp max. It says right there. These are all, of
course your standard on hundred and twenty volt twenty amp max. Now, okay,
that's impressive because most of your home plugs like that one right there on
the back side of my porch, most of them are probably fifteen amps for
outdoor plug, sometimes they're twenty, sometimes they're fifteen, sometimes they're twenty,
And the ones inside your home are usually either ten or fifteen amps. So
the fact that this is a twenty amp plug makes it a really beefy outdoor
what would be a beefy outdoor plug on your home. So that's impression.
And there's six of those. That's great. That's the rest of it right
there. But this is just a really neat system. Man. Really appreciate
Anchor sending this to me, because I'm going to have fun putting this together
with the hamshack. This is the transfer switch that I got. It's from
Reliance Controls. Again, you're gonna and it comes with this right on top.
Take particular care to attach the transfer switch red wires and load center circuit
brokers, please read the enclosed installation instructions very carefully. Transfer switch must be
installed only by qualified electrician with a thorough knowledge of all applicable electrical and building
codes. That was on the top when I opened this box, and very
very important to emphasize that, because don't just go pluging stuff up to your
house. You're gonna end up hurting yourself for somebody else. So there's a
transfer switch. So in general, what you would do is you would that's
line means, it means your shore power and then gen is presumably generator,
okay, so you whether it's a solar or a gas power generator, generator,
external generator. So you can have these off. You can have this
right here. There's two thirty ant breakers, two twenty AT breakers, and
a bunch of fifteen AT breakers right here, so you can turn these off
and on. You can put some on the shore power and some on the
generator power. Keep your two hundred and forty volt stuff on shore power,
and put all your one hundred ns oops, put all your one hundred and
twenty volt stuff on generator power if you want to do it like that,
depending on how big your battery capacity is. As you add battery capacity to
that thing. Over time, you could obviously add more of these to the
generator power over the line power. But look at this really beefy cable,
this sucker that is probably like a I don't know, triple at gauge maybe
quadruple gauged cable. This is the part that goes into the side of the
F thirty eight hundred right there, and then this sucker goes into the transfers
which it comes with this little oops comes with this plug right here that where
this goes. This is gonna be a fun project. I'm really looking forward
to it again. Special thanks to Anchor for sending me this. I've called
the electric the Electrician company and talk to them about what I want. They're
gonna get me scheduled soon, but I have to wait on them, so
that's why it's not happening yet. Anchor Solex will provide a special offer to
everyone watching this video in my viewers for this unit the F thirty eight hundred
and its bundle using an exclusive discount code which you can find in the description
of this video. Check out all the specials they're running. Let me know
if you guys have ever heard of this. If you plan to do some
sort of battery backup system on your own home. Stay tuned for more videos
about this very thing. Hamshack going off Grid seventy three