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solar panels and you may notice there's a little damage to the box so hopefully they're okay I chose these panels because they're cheap only $119 total and they have a 15 amp series fuse rating which if you're not sure what that is it basically means I didn't have to buy solar fuses which helped keep my cost low and once I unboxed both the panels I was happy to see they arrived in good condition with no damage next up is we've got some accessories that we need to make this setup work together these two things cost me about $42 the first is a solar extension cable which will basically just give us a lot more freedom of movement with where we put our solar panels and a pair of Branch connectors which I'll touch on later when we talk about connecting the solar panels together and finally the power station it's called the Blue EDI ac50 B and I went with it because it was the best power station I could find in this price range it cost me $35 which brings my total to around $466 so well within my $500 budget it can handle 200 WTS of solar panels and it's got a decent Siz battery and a good level of power output which we'll put to the test later so this one's nice cuz they include all the charging cables we need including the solar adapter cable and then we have the power station let's get this thing set up let's turn on the power station so it arrived 57% charged and then to solar charge it I need the included adapter cable and the extension cable that I bought and if I was using just this one solar panel and I would connect the solar adapter cable to the solar panel and then the extension cable to the adapter cable and I would just bring the extension cable over to the power station and plug it in here where it says DC PV input PV just means solar and if my solar panels in good sun should almost immediately start charging the power station getting about 70 Watts from the one 100 wat solar panel which is decent for this time of year but for this setup I bought two solar panels so to charge the power station with both of them at once we are going to have to connect them together normally you'd connect your solar panels together in series just by connecting the positive and negative wires together like I just did but connecting solar panels in series adds their voltages together so these two panels each have a voltage of 22 volts connected in series together that goes up to 44 volts and unfortunately 44 volts exceeds this power station's 28 volt input limit so I cannot connect the these two solar panels in series unfortunately because it could damage my power station I have to connect them in parallel which is where these Branch connectors come in to connect two panels in parallel you just grab the right Branch connector which you then use to connect both positive wires together take the other Branch connector the two negative wires and then you just use the branch connector to connect both negative wires together now you have one positive connector and one negative connector for the two solar panels and you connect it like before but how do I know this is safe compared to the series connection which would have damaged the power station potentially well it's because when you connect in parallel the voltages actually stay the same so we're getting that 21 or so volts which is within this power station's 28 volt limit so I can safely connect my 200 WTS of solar panels to this power station and the solar panels are charging the power station 133 WS an estimated 1.3 until it's full I'm going to move these solar panels away from the shade and we'll see how much they charge the power station in an [Music] hour been exactly 1 hour of solar charging so let's check on the power station it started at 59% and now it's at 90% And that's even with a little bit of shade on the panels here at the end this power station lets you do solar charging and AC charging at the same time so I'm plugging in the AC wall charger now it's charging at a rate of 274 WTS and I can see in the app that the solar panels are only producing about 6 Watts they're really shaded at the moment and the rest is coming from the grid of course it can also charge from grid power alone so I unplugged the solar panels it's still charging at a rate of around 275 watts and finally there's the car charging cable which just plugs right into the 12volt socket in your car now the power station is fully charged so let's find out what this $500 setup can run what it can't run and how that compares to the power station from the $250 setup starting with the lowest wattage devices and working our way up this thing has three USB ports to them are USBC so if I press the DC button it turns on the ports and I can charge three USB devices at once it also has two AC Outlets so I can plug in two AC devices turn on the AC port by pushing the AC button and start charging or powering two AC devices at once with all this plugged in it's using 99 watts in an estimated 3.9 hours remaining the power station also has this 12volt socket so it can run 12volt devices like this chest fridge but let's continue working our way up to find out where the limit is this tower fan uses a Max of 66 watt so let's turn it on estimated run time is 8 hours for this I almost completely forgot about my Wi-Fi rter it's these two separate devices which need to be plugged in at the same time there's an estimated 40 hours of runtime my TV uses 160 watt so can run this an estimated 3.7 hours of run time that's enough for a couple movies this power station can also run my kitchen fridge which uses around 280 Watts Max the fridge is using close to 100 watts and there's an estimated 3.8 hours remaining but fridges they go back and forth between running and not running so this time estimate here is not going to be really accurate in this case in a previous video I ran my fridge off of a 1,000w power station which is a little bit more than double the size of this battery uh and it lasted for 12 hours so based on that I'd expect this to be able to run my fridge for around 5 to 5 and 1 half hours off battery alone I'm going to start wall charging this power station to show you two things the first is that you can charge the power station at the same time that you're running devices off of it which is really no surprise there the second is something that just happened as illustrated by the fridge light not flickering or blinking at all is that the power station just switched over from running the fridge off of battery power to grid power this is called a UPS feature so around 330 watts are coming in around 80 watts are going out to the fridge and it switched over to grid power you can see the little grid icon there so quickly that the fridge did not lose power there was no interruption but more importantly the UPS's switch over feature works the other way so when your power station loses grid power as this one just did then in most cases your appliances and devices keep running without interruption so this is good for power outages and then there's this little space heater it uses 500 watts let's see if it can run I'm going to turn it on then this thing actually has to be pushed in wow okay this is actually using more than 500 watts did you see it Spike up to like 800 watts there for a second it says 0.8 hours remaining on the screen there I am honestly surprised that this even ran this thing has a continuous power rating of 700 watts and then a surge rating which blue Ed calls like a lifting power rating of 1,000 Watts but you have to turn on the lifting power mode in the app and I didn't have it turned on so I'm surprised that this was able to Output more than 700 Watts for even a short amount of time also this thing is definitely rated at 500 watts I just double checked the device right now so it actually output more than its wattage rating which I don't know if I've seen before I will quickly say this thing is pretty quiet there's definitely a fan noise I can hear there's some air blowing out the side that I can feel but there's no high-pitched worring noise like there was with the power station from the $250 setup now we're getting to the higher wattage devices 1,000 Watts all the way up to, 1500 watts for this bigger heater here you know when I tried to run my blender off of the $250 setup my blender got an error code on the screen so I'm not going to lie I'm a little apprehensive about this but we're going to try them all out I'm going to quickly turn on the powerlifting mode in the app let's try this electric burner which uses th000 Watts supposedly plug it in but I'm going to turn it on the lowest heat setting the burner just turned on power station is using 700 watts and this is like one of the lowest heat settings on the electric burner it says 0.5 hours remaining this is getting a little hot and now I'm at the number four heat setting the power station says this is still using 700 watts and I'm almost to the max heat setting now going to check the temperature wow it is 400° around there okay so this thing is definitely hot 450° in some spots wow okay so it is working this is a 5100 BTU window AC unit it uses up to 1200 WTS I'm going to turn it all the way down to the minimum cooling level 1 out of 10 and I'm going to turn it on power output only around 66 Watts right now I'm going to turn it all the way up to the max cooling setting oh it cut off it looks like we got an overload on the the power station says alarm here and I'll have to look into the manual as to what this means hopefully I didn't damage it okay I'm a little worried the gear icon is an overload alert and the alarm is a fault alert did I damage this thing I will unplug this turn off the AC outlets and hopefully hopefully this can still run stuff can this power station run my 1200 watt microwave but more importantly is the Fault going to be there when I turn on the AC Outlets okay it's not I'm relieved so I guess I just had to turn off the AC outlets and turn the back on and the fault and the overload went away we're going to plug in the microwave and I'm going to try it on a low setting first let me just try power level one 128 Watts 100 oh my God it just cut out for a second now it's running again it's using 31 Watts but it's spiked up to 500 something that was a weird noise that my microwave just made okay I don't think I'm going to push it any oh it just cut out I don't know what's happening I'm going to stop this I don't like this our old Nemesis the blender let's start it at the lowest speed setting nice wa 430 Watts second speed setting 450 third speed setting do I go all the way away this is stressful over 700 okay it overloaded the power station all right we're getting the same same fault and overload icons we got with the AC unit wow yeah wow we'll finish up with the bigger space heater that pulls a Max of, 1500 watts and then we'll compare this power station and this $500 set up to the power station in the $250 setup I'm going to turn it on to the one setting oh wow okay it's pulling 300 400 watts 450 698 so it's stopping right at that 700 watt limit I think the power station must just limit the amount of wattage it pulls to keep it at that safe continuous power rating of 700 Watts but let's force it into powerlifting mode so I'm going to turn the heat setting up to about the halfway point still sitting at 700 WTS exactly I guess I'll just crank it all the way up see if it does anything okay 700 Watts it's at the max heat setting maybe it won't go over 700 it says it could run per for 04 hours and the battery's at 67% so maybe 6 hours total all right so the $500 setup could power almost everything here which I was not expecting how does that compare to the $250 setup this has a 300 watt continuous power rating so it could run up to my kitchen fridge it does have a 600 watt surge rating so it could potentially power this small heater but I didn't test the small heater with the $250 setup you get double the solar panels when you go with the $500 setup let's talk battery capacity this has 256s of battery capacity 448 wat hours so you get nearly double with the $500 setup not only can it run more but it could run your devices for about twice as long I think they're both really good setups but let me know which one you think is a better value for the money I'll put a link here to the full $250 setup video in case you want to check that out and then links to all the parts will be in the description below thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one ...
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