Speaker 1: This is the new Buddy Pole Power Pro. This is
Speaker 1: an upgrade from the Power Plus and the Power Plus
Speaker 1: two and the Power Mini and the Power Mini two,
Speaker 1: and this adds some extra features that we haven't seen
Speaker 1: in a charge controller from Buddy Pole before. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take this into the field and give it a quick look.
Speaker 1: See first off before we go out there, if this
Speaker 1: has wanted to do a close up of it here.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna power this up in a minute and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it in the sunlight and let you
Speaker 1: see what the screen looks like in the sunlight. This
Speaker 1: is a colored screen and you can totally see it
Speaker 1: in the sunlight. It's easier to see in the shade
Speaker 1: as you would expect, but you can totally see this
Speaker 1: in the sunlight. It has a USB sport right there
Speaker 1: to Anderson Ports on that side obviously, and then the
Speaker 1: other side here is all Anderson ports as well. So
Speaker 1: we've got the battery connection right there, which is you
Speaker 1: would expect right there the DCN. So it will take
Speaker 1: a twelve power supply and it will take a solar panel.
Speaker 1: It'll take up to one hundred and sixty watt solar
Speaker 1: panel and we'll output to two different loads, a radio
Speaker 1: and an amplifier, a radio and a a tuner, or
Speaker 1: two radios, however you want to do that. It's got
Speaker 1: a nice wheel here to page through the screen. You
Speaker 1: can press this button and choose things on the screen,
Speaker 1: and then page through selections on the screen and choose
Speaker 1: the selection you want. So let's take this into the
Speaker 1: field and look and see what it looks like in
Speaker 1: the sun. I'm gonna take this to the hunting Lease,
Speaker 1: put it on a Gigabarts solar panel and go from there.
Speaker 1: I have been a huge fan of the Buddy Pole
Speaker 1: Power Mini for a long long time. I have the
Speaker 1: original version, I have the newer version of power Mini two,
Speaker 1: and I still use those charge controllers whenever I can.
Speaker 1: Whenever I need something to plug into my one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty watt Gigabarts panel, that's the solar charge controller
Speaker 1: I reach for because it's top notch. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with it. It's RF quiet. I've had zero issues with
Speaker 1: RFI while running radios in the field on Poda or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I've been a huge fan of these Buddy Pole
Speaker 1: charge controllers since the very first version. So let's take
Speaker 1: this one into the field and see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: Solar panels reading about eighteen point five volts right now.
Speaker 1: Of course, the batteries top off at thirteen dot two,
Speaker 1: so the solar panel is not actually bringing in any
Speaker 1: wattage now, but you can see that I'm in the
Speaker 1: shade a little bit. If I bring this into the
Speaker 1: sunlight my hand eut of the way, the camera may
Speaker 1: or may not show it, but you can still see
Speaker 1: the screen and make out what's going on. You can
Speaker 1: turn the knob here to go into the menus like
Speaker 1: that and go back to the main menu here. So
Speaker 1: it's somebody on five to two. So this is working
Speaker 1: really well because what will happen here? This acts like
Speaker 1: a power gate. Okay, so it's on battery charging the
Speaker 1: battery from solar right here. This is one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty watt gigaparts solar blanket what they call a solar
Speaker 1: blanket or just a foldable solar panel. And you can't
Speaker 1: get these anymore. I'm hoping that Gigaparts reintroduces them soon.
Speaker 1: It's part of their Explorer line. But right now you
Speaker 1: can't get these. But this would work with a power
Speaker 1: film one hundred and fifty watt or anything up to
Speaker 1: about one hundred and sixty watts, which is the max
Speaker 1: for this power pro from Buddy Pole, And it's running
Speaker 1: on the battery right now. And you could plug a
Speaker 1: twelve volt DC charger in here, like a twelve power
Speaker 1: supply in here, and it would charge the battery from
Speaker 1: solar or the twelve power supply, and then if your
Speaker 1: power went out on the twelve power supply, the battery
Speaker 1: would pick it up. So this act says like a
Speaker 1: power gate that keeps your battery charged and lets you
Speaker 1: run on AC power supply twelve VTE power supply, but
Speaker 1: also has a battery backup in place for when the
Speaker 1: power goes out. I wonder if we can hear those
Speaker 1: guys KC five hwb let's six top five to two
Speaker 1: somebody out there. I can't hear them. I think he's
Speaker 1: talking to another station that I can't hear it all.
Speaker 1: He's having a conversation with somebody else that I can't
Speaker 1: hear it all. So but this is my setup right tonight,
Speaker 1: and if I get a chance to check into the
Speaker 1: DFW simplex net, this is what I will do it.
Speaker 1: From the lease I did that like two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I was using this same radio setup, but I
Speaker 1: was using a different battery. This is the battery that
Speaker 1: I keep with this radio and the tech pripper man pack,
Speaker 1: and then I have it uning on an edphong j
Speaker 1: pole right there. So this is a pretty sweet setup
Speaker 1: right here. M HM.