hi so by far one of my favorite things to talk about is Power Solutions now I've actually made a
video already about the 757 I'll leave that link below it continues to be one of the most useful
pieces of tech daily in my studio and when I go on location to travel Zing is one giant battery
bank that has a bunch of cool features that allow it to last for a very long time inside here we
have a 1229 watt hour battery which will power up to 1500 watts of devices now in that video I
literally tried to Max it out completely and it is difficult to do I mean my giant Studio
light right here is 500 watts which is one of the biggest significant things you can plug in laptops
but on average those are around what 60 watts or so plug in phones there's another 20 or 30 drone
batteries tablets cameras I mean I tried to fill almost every port here and I was not able to Max
it out which means that you can connect pretty significantly power hungry devices to it as well
now because it's actually Earth month anchor is doing a really cool promotion right now where a
portion of every sale is going to be donated to Oceana to help protect the world's oceans
speaking of being green we're talking about one of my favorite accessories for this uh which I
just got in oh yeah Power of the Sun so this is anchors 100 watt solar power panel for the 757
as a standalone device took up to the 767 you can actually hook up to three of these I'll be honest
I've never actually really used solar powered devices before I've been super interested in solar
paneled roofs and all that but it always felt kind of is it complicated to hook up and actually run
is it kind of more of an annoyance and a hassle than a benefit I can tell you after a couple weeks
of using this uh this pretty much is Just Gonna live in my car for a number of reasons even if
you don't own a 757 let me explain first of all look how compact this thing is it's practically
a briefcase it's briefcase Style with the nice handle it's incredibly thin and as soon as we
open the velcro uh you may think that it's this big it's not it's larger we actually have four
solar panels in one now the materials that this is made of is incredibly scratch proof and ipx4
water resistant so you don't even have to worry about it uh being out in the rain if you have it
hooked up and then it starts raining in the front you have two nice uh pouch cases so if we open up
this top one which is actually just kind of this more netted we can see this permanently attached
little box right here this is how you actually connect it to the 757 it also has a USB type A
and type c output so again you don't even need to own a anchor Power Station to use this if this was
just in your car and you're out in the middle of nowhere and your phone dies all of a sudden
because you run out battery all of your battery banks are dead you can still use the power of the
sun just plug in USB type-c or USB type a port Empower all of your devices there and then on
the bottom here we have the actual longer cable to connect to the power station but again there's
plenty of room in here you can fit if you have all three panels to hook up the power station
you can fit all your cords in one or if you just have other accessories you can throw in you know
charging cables for all your devices into here as well on the back of the power station here
you just open up this flap where of course we have our normal AC power port but then on this side we
can see a little proprietary port for this and then again you would uh unfold all these panels
which I'll show you how to in a second plug it in there and boom you're done literally on the
display of the power station it will now show your uh input power as well so that how many watts are
recharging the battery from solar there's no settings to change there's no power on buttons
you just literally Plug and Play the design of this is pretty genius so Sun monitoring thing
here in the front that just has a little Dot and then a red circle on paper below it and so as you
move this around and the Sun is right above you the dot is going to create a shadow on the white
section and you basically just want the shadow of the dot to land in the red circle and that means
that is at the most optimal angle to receive the sunlight that's nice because you don't really have
to have any guesswork for like oh is this a good angle is this the best angle I could be getting
but basically there are three sections that have built-in stands they're held in by Velcro each one
has a little strap attached to it and so the way it works is that when the strap is fully extended
it's going to be at a good angle there's one on either end and then actually where your pouch is
is the third middle one it collapses easy once you're done you just kind of fold everything in
bada bing bada boom you're back to a nice small briefcase style setup that mic is definitely in
my shot now now for photographers and filmmakers something like this setup is actually super
incredible to have because a lot of times we go out for all day shoots and I happen to be on a
shoot recently where we kind of split it into two where we had stuff during the day and then we had
to do some nighttime stuff as well and I knew that I needed to charge things constantly I had
a lot of gear on me and a lot of high-powered gear like v-mount batteries multiple cinema
camera batteries a couple lights and so I knew I was going to be using up my 757 Power Station
throughout the day but then I also needed to recharge things at night time and so this
actually came in super clutch for that as well one of the biggest downfalls of any battery of course
is thinking about how you're going to allocate how much power you have to charge so currently I
have plugged in a couple drone batteries drones modes my phone and even my Ronin 4D batteries
and right now it's pulling about 110 watts of power and the solar panel can actually do up to
100 Watts but it's Ohio so it's actually pretty cloudy and so I was wondering if it was going to
work at all but it's actually being able to charge it around 50 to 55 watt while that's not giving me
unlimited power for what I have currently plugged in it's basically doubling the amount of time that
I could use this anchor and that way by tonight when I actually need to power my 500 watt light
I can have a couple of hours because it's all the way charged even though I won't have time
to take this home today and recharge it there like I said each of the solar panels are going to give
you up to 100 watts of charging power and you can actually hook up three to the power stations so
you using the splitter cable if you get that combo pack and I'll give you up to 300 watts of charging
power that means for the 757 you can go from zero to a hundred percent in just four and a half
hours I know talking about things like batteries and solar panels may not be the
sexiest topic but to me anchor has been one of those brands that makes me excited because
their designs are always incredible all the products feel very high quality they last a
long time and again they just put a lot of good technology into the products that you as the end
user don't even think about but they'll keep your devices lasting longer healthier and of
course charging all of your stuff safely without at the risk of overheating over
charges stuff like that huge thanks to anchor for sending all this stuff out and sponsoring
this video again thanks so much for watching see you guys in the next one [Music] foreign [Music]