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Anker has a brand new backup power system

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that was just recently launched, called
the Anker Solex F thirty eight hundred.

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Let's take a look at this and
see how it might be beneficial in times

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of power outages or blackouts, or
even get my shadow out of the way,

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even for taking the ham shack off
grid stick around. For a long

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time now, I've talked about taking
my ham shack off grid. Let me

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step back into the sun where you
can see me. And anchor sent me

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this power station. They sent me
an email and they're like, hey,

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we've seen some of the power station
videos you've done. Would you like to

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do one on hours? And they
showed me the specs on this thing and

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I was like, Wow, that
thing looks really cool. I would love

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to be able to use it on
the hamshack or maybe even the RV trailer.

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Now, the first thing I noticed
that it's on wheels. Okay,

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so we've got I'm trying to stay
out of this out of the shade as

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much as possible. So we've got
wheels here, We've got feet on it

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right here to where you can lay
it down on the side, and it's

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got to pop up handle like that
right there, which is really neat because

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it's got large wheels on the back. So these are all the cables that

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come with it. Set those aside
for the moment there so we can wheel

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it around like this. Okay,
it is a very heavy unit. This

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is not something you're going to pick
up and take with you to a campsite

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or something like that, or you
know, have laying around and just grab

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and go type thing. It don't
it's not made for that. This is

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made so that you can put it
in a room or a helm back up

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and just leave it there. These
It has these rotating casts on the front

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that lock down like that, so
it's a little bit harder to roll it

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around once you get into the place, and it has this really good display

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on the front. All right.
I moved it could not see the screen

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in the sun, which again,
this is not made for outdoors. This

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is made for your home backup.
You're gonna put this in a garage,

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in a closet. In this case, I'm gonna put it in the corner

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of the ham shack, probably underneath
my desk. But if we hold the

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power button down for kind of a
long time, really it will come on

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there. It goes right there.
If the screen starts up eighty three percent,

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Okay, that's pretty good. Right
there, you can see we've got

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three USB C ports on the front, plus two USBA and blue, so

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presumably those are quick charged three to
dot zero. Little safety tip, real

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quick. If you're going to install
a generator or a solar system of some

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sort, maybe a solar panels,
battery backups, something like that, you

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can't just plug that into your breaker
box grid. It can cause problems with

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sending power back up the line.
It can cause problems with the power company.

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It can be dangerous and you could
actually kill somebody if it's really done

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improperly. So always check with a
licensed provider to install what's called a transfer

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switch, which i'll show you here
in a minute. Anytime you're wanting to

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plug in any type of backup power
into your house, such as a generator,

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solar generator, battery backups, anything, solar panels, anything like that

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at all. The company that ran
the electricity when I have the hamshack built

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like twelve or fifteen years ago,
I'm gonna call them and see if they'll

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install a transfer switch in my hamshack
for me, because I already have a

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breaker box in the hamshack they put
that in. Originally, we ran a

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line from the house to the hamshack, breaker box professionally installed and all that

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kind of good stuff. It's worked
great ever since. I've had zero issues

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with it. So I'm gonna call
that same company and get them to install

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the transfer switch. That'll be done
in a different video, so when you

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have the transfer switch, it'll go
in there. So this is an expansion

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to expand the battery capacity this right
here, it's called the F thirty eight

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hundred. It's thirty eight hundred and
forty watt hours with a built in six

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thousand WAT inverters. You can plug
six thousand watt of appliances into it.

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It will scale up to twenty six
point nine watt hours. Six expansion batteries

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in there, it'll do almost thirty
thousand watt hours of capacity. It's got

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twenty four hundred watts of solar input
between these two, allowing for charge of

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eighty percent and just about about one
point five hours depending on sunlight, so

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twenty four so you can do twelve
hundred watts into each of these, and

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that's about sixty amps into each one
of those roughly, depending on what you're

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doing. So that's freaking rat I
mean, even if you used one of

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those, Holy cow, if your
power consumption at wherever you're plugging this into

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is low, you could probably get
away with one of those. That is

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freaking awesome right there. So again
that's the is a car socket on here.

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I don't know why you would want
car socket. It's just a cigarette

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lighter adapter. So obviously you're not
gonna be carrying this thing around your car.

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Probably. Here's the and the other
side of it right here. Let

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me move it out of the sun. It has this specialized plug right here

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with the cable that I got I'll
show you in a minute. This goes

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to the transfer switch. So you're
plugging into the house of the transfer switch.

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This looks like a standard two hundred
and forty volt plug right there,

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twenty five amp max. It says
right there. These are all, of

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course your standard on hundred and twenty
volt twenty amp max. Now, okay,

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that's impressive because most of your home
plugs like that one right there on

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the back side of my porch,
most of them are probably fifteen amps for

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outdoor plug, sometimes they're twenty,
sometimes they're fifteen, sometimes they're twenty,

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And the ones inside your home are
usually either ten or fifteen amps. So

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the fact that this is a twenty
amp plug makes it a really beefy outdoor

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what would be a beefy outdoor plug
on your home. So that's impression.

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And there's six of those. That's
great. That's the rest of it right

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there. But this is just a
really neat system. Man. Really appreciate

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Anchor sending this to me, because
I'm going to have fun putting this together

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with the hamshack. This is the
transfer switch that I got. It's from

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Reliance Controls. Again, you're gonna
and it comes with this right on top.

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Take particular care to attach the transfer
switch red wires and load center circuit

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brokers, please read the enclosed installation
instructions very carefully. Transfer switch must be

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installed only by qualified electrician with a
thorough knowledge of all applicable electrical and building

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codes. That was on the top
when I opened this box, and very

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very important to emphasize that, because
don't just go pluging stuff up to your

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house. You're gonna end up hurting
yourself for somebody else. So there's a

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transfer switch. So in general,
what you would do is you would that's

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line means, it means your shore
power and then gen is presumably generator,

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okay, so you whether it's a
solar or a gas power generator, generator,

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external generator. So you can have
these off. You can have this

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right here. There's two thirty ant
breakers, two twenty AT breakers, and

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a bunch of fifteen AT breakers right
here, so you can turn these off

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and on. You can put some
on the shore power and some on the

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generator power. Keep your two hundred
and forty volt stuff on shore power,

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and put all your one hundred ns
oops, put all your one hundred and

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twenty volt stuff on generator power if
you want to do it like that,

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depending on how big your battery capacity
is. As you add battery capacity to

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that thing. Over time, you
could obviously add more of these to the

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generator power over the line power.
But look at this really beefy cable,

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this sucker that is probably like a
I don't know, triple at gauge maybe

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quadruple gauged cable. This is the
part that goes into the side of the

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F thirty eight hundred right there,
and then this sucker goes into the transfers

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which it comes with this little oops
comes with this plug right here that where

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this goes. This is gonna be
a fun project. I'm really looking forward

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to it again. Special thanks to
Anchor for sending me this. I've called

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the electric the Electrician company and talk
to them about what I want. They're

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gonna get me scheduled soon, but
I have to wait on them, so

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that's why it's not happening yet.
Anchor Solex will provide a special offer to

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everyone watching this video in my viewers
for this unit the F thirty eight hundred

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and its bundle using an exclusive discount
code which you can find in the description

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of this video. Check out all
the specials they're running. Let me know

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if you guys have ever heard of
this. If you plan to do some

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sort of battery backup system on your
own home. Stay tuned for more videos

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about this very thing. Hamshack going
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