Hi I'm Chris and in this video I'm doing something different I'm testing out a portable power station
here and a modular battery system this is the blue T ac300 the B300 and those solar panels
here in front of me are their 350 watt portable solar panels now this is a great setup here for
emergencies or maybe even an RV we've got a battery bank that has a capacity of 3072 Watt
hours but it's modular you can add more batteries bringing it up to a total capacity over 12
000 Watt hours if you did need that now it does support 3000 Watts with a peak of 6000 watts
and it's using the life po4 cells so this thing is rated for a huge amount of Cycles now around about
the 3500 Mark with the battery Cycles the capacity will drop down about 80 percent and then around 6
000 cycles that capacity will be about 50 percent so that's a huge long life battery cell here that
it does use and these modular designs here as you'd expect they come really well packaged up
with a lot of padding around them well boxed no damage either to it plus the PV 350 solar
panel again really well packaged up in the Box you will find our ac300 portable power
station user guide we have a little certificate there that is telling us that it's past quality
control warranty card and this right here they are part of the laaf program which is light and
African family and it's just a little Ward there just to let you know that you've helped out with
that with your purchase of course of this for bundled cables that are included we do have our
AC cable car charging cable and then a solar cable too then what is included with the modular battery
which is the B300 you'll find our power cable to connect it up we do even have a solar cable
a user guide warranty card and a battery which is double boxed a lot of padding around it just like
the power station and a plastic wrap the B300 as you can see is a 3072 watt hour modular battery
it is large in size but I like the way that they have separated the power station from the modular
batteries they're not both in one for obvious reasons it does make it a little bit cheaper
when later on imagine in 10 years you need to replace the battery we don't need to replace
the whole unit the power station that is just the battery the B300 modular battery has its own
power button right here you've got a power button there to turn DC on a battery indicator with some
little Lids behind it LEDs and then we've got a type a 18 watt Port here a USB type c up to 100
Watts supporting power delivery a 12 volt dc10 amp port then on the right side the connections
for our battery so there are two of them here of course modular design you can keep hooking up more
batteries to this very solid looking port and I'll show you the connector of it in just a minute and
here we do have on the left side our DC inputs so we have the solar input right here so that is from
12 to 60 volts DC 10 amps and then here a DC plug which is 58.8 volts DC 8 amps and as you'd expect
these connectors they are chunky very heavy duty industrial style so they lock into place and look
at the gauge of this cable so it is rated up to 500 volts and that's understandable the views of
course a really good quality cable here the amount of current that's going to go through this so it
is safe and very secure the fact that it locks into place I do like this then this is what the
B300 looks like with the station on top of it the ac300 now I'm only showing this outside just for
the purposes of this video you should not run them in the Sun for obvious reasons could lead
to overheating now there's a built-in battery management system it's got a lot of safety in
there so if it does get too hot of course there's fans that come on to keep it cool but it will end
up shutting itself off and then the UV rays could damage the plastic our ports available then with
the AC 300 where we've got a 12 volt 30 amp so that's a lot 30 amps for your RVs motorhomes the
connection there then we have the carport here but they do have a warning this is the 24 volt plug so
don't mix that of course with 12 volt connections if you want 12 volts it's on the battery Bank
itself down below and then our AC outputs here so I've got the European version obviously here so
this is 220 to 240 volts and we do have six here which is really good 3 000 Watts but it can Peak
up to 6000 Watts just for a short period if the demand is there for that so here we have our DC
outputs we've got USBC 100 watts and then a type a 18 Watts times two of them right there okay and
then another two types they are lower powered so they're 15 watts Max and then our power button
and then this I really like the competitors out there are missing this feature and that is chi
standard wireless charging so imagine if you're in an emergency situation you've got your phone
with you but you don't know where the cable is or you've simply lost it well at least you can
place your phone or other Tech that supports Qi wireless standard on top of this and charge it
even if it is slow it's only 15 watts Max it's a really good option to have with this power station
the power station has the two battery connections we do have over this side on the left then our AC
input so that is 16 amps maximum 220 volts to 240 volts and then we do have a DC input which
is 12 volts to 150 volts or 12 amps times 2 and then a communication Port there at the bottom
now the charging time of this pack here if you're using solar plus AC one and a half hours to charge
it and it can take up to 2 400 watts solar charging which none of the competition does
seem to have not at least at that kind of wattage and if you use two AC connections at the same time
you can charge it in around 1.8 to about 2.3 hours which again is really quick now the build quality
of them is very good the Plastics the finish everything it's absolutely Top Notch this does not
look cheap feel cheap they are Quality Batteries and power stations so are their products reliable
well they do have a smaller 500 watt hour battery from them it's with their power Oak brand but blue
tea it's the same thing the same brand and I've had it for years now and I've been using it a
lot it's probably had at least 250 Cycles not an issue with it at all nothing has gone wrong with
it nothing is broken it's still working as it was when it was new so I wanted to do a little bit of
a solar panel test here unfortunately the last week or in fact actually Fortnight it's been a
little bit cloudy so a little hazy I'm not going to have the peak solar power here but it's just
to give you an idea along with my own solar panel here which is a huge one this is 450 Watts I've
got the bluitty 350 watt maximum potable solar panel here now this particular panel is called the
PV 350. so these portable panels do have a very good build quality to them the fabric they've used
is great the stitching looks all fine and you'll see they've got some little buckles there so you
can fold it all up and then two little handles at the top there is this pouch where you will find
neatly stowed away with init our cables there using the standard solar connectors as you can
see and here are the technical specs of that panel if you did want to know that just pause the video
there are four panels in total and each of them have these little legs that you can
pull out they are attached with velcro again the build quality does look to be very good
now according to the screen on the ac300 I am only generating around 320 Watts it does make sense
because even though it looks really sunny it's very hazy there's a bit of light cloud and front
there that's blocking off unfortunately the Rays there a little bit so we're not getting as much
sun as I could possibly hope for here and I'll try and test this out on a very suddenly clear day but
it's looking good that's what I kind of expected for these conditions being all hazy and with this
light cloud cover now there really are a thousand uses for a power bank such as this now outdoor
garden tools it will power all of them normally well I don't think there's any really that I can
think of that exceed 3 000 Watts with a peak of course of six thousand so I could run multiple
power tools at the same time but I'm going to give it a quick little test here in the garden
so Stone blue tea will have an option to charge it at EV stations but until then for an emergency
power source you can use generators or probably the closest and handiest would be your car's
cigarette lighter socket so here with my car it's a maximum output of only 180 Watts but let's have
a look at the charging rate now now note you can connect it up to the power station or the modular
battery so it is only just charging at over 100 Watts so this is a very slow rate of course
compared to AC but if you needed to charge the modular battery there and you were in emergency
situations it's at least an option that we do have now a touch screen so it is a color screen
as you can see and of course inside it's a little clearer now here but you can still make it out in
direct sunlight so we've got options here to turn the DC on AC on and off you can see the load here
the grid so it is currently charging from the grid I don't have any solar panels plugged in otherwise
that would show up DC load now I'll just flick on something I've got connected to it and you'll
see straight away that it's pulling now almost 2 000 watts and I did see the lights flicker so
it looks like it is taking from the grid as well and not touching those batteries yet now it can
work as a UPS too you've got options for that which I'll show you now so under settings you
can see we've got language you've got the voltage options here with the European version that I've
got you can see it to either 220 to 30 or to 40 the frequency so 50 hertz or 60 hertz your dc1
input solar panels or other and the dc2 input you can select that we've got a buzzer settings Eco
you can turn it on to eco mode working mode so standard uninterrupted power supply UPS you've
got time to control the solar panel priority PV priority or customized Ups 2 there so you can
select what you want the max grid input current you're able to control that to as well and you'll
see here that we do have a parallel enable if you want for PV Bluetooth Bluetooth State Wireless
and that's to do with the connection with the application and the battery station itself touch
sound brightness control here sleep time settings now there is a fan in it that is cooling it down
now when it's under load that is load charging or load when it's discharging you do hear that
fan and I will give you a sample of it later on it really depends on the load how loud it will be so
just go back home here you can see some data so if you want to look at the inverter and charger
info you can have a look there and see okay I want to see the grid input and it will give me
the stats on that so it's currently just over 200 volts you can see pulling over 200 watts and the
Hertz is close to 50 there pretty standard DC output and the solar information there too if
you did need that it's all in here so plenty of information you've got battery information too if
you connect up more cells they will show in here I only have the one battery module alarm history so
I haven't had any alarms I haven't been able to trigger it just yet but I'll see if I can later
then the blue tea application you can get on iOS or Android now it is a straightforward application
you don't need to register for it you can just connect up with Bluetooth to the ac300 which I've
done right now and you have some of the settings that you get when you look at the touch screen and
use that so we've got the DC AC you can turn it on and off remotely which is great imagine you've got
it down in your basement or something like that then you can control it without actually being
there in person you can get quick stats here you can see the grid solar what we're using for DC and
AC and then you can take a look at the battery pack itself too so we can get some information
that with the battery management system so you can see Pack 2 connected it's telling me there that
it's uh discharging and if you've got other packs connected up then you would see those details so
it is a straightforward simple but practical application so I have two phones on the top of
it now that are wirelessly charging both of them are wirelessly charging at around about 15 watts
I've got a laptop plugged in so I've got a bit of load that's up to 100 Watts there on the DC
side of things so DC's working reasonably hard there yes I could plug in a few more but what I
want to do now is load it up I'm going to plug in a Kittle you can see there's a kettle down
here just at the corner of the video and then an iron now the irons up around over 2 000 Watts Peak
the kettle is about 2 000 so that will go over the 3000 rating I just wanted to see how long
will it allow me to Peak over the 3000 Watts so I have the kettle on that is boiling that's now
an AC load of 2 000 Watts I have the iron going and let's turn on the hairdryer Maxim setting
4000 Watts all right it's triggered an alarm and there we go it has cut that out straight
away it's just cut everything off and that was only around 4 000 Watts beeping at me to tell me
inverter overload protection overload warning okay so that's good that it's got that built-in safety
you can't overload it but I was hoping it would let me Peak for a little bit longer there so you
really don't want to be going over that 3000 Watts then a quick test is using it as a UPS you can see
that it's got the grid connected it's pulling just around 2000 watts and then when I turn it
off it continues without a problem straight away just switching over then to the battery Bank
and here's what it sounds like when it's under full load so it's being discharging at about 2
500 watts and charging around 2 000 you can hear the fans either side so this is a quick sample
of what to expect it's a little loud it's not super annoying or offensive but you do hear it
so overall this is a very versatile system here that blue tea has I do like the AC 300 the fact
that it's separate the power station from the batteries and it's a modular design quality
solid cables that lock into place you've got plenty of output options input options as well
you can charge it really quick with two AC cables in just one and a half hours you can charge it of
course via DC with your car you've got solar up to 2 400 watts which is pretty incredible and
it's going to be great for emergency situations there's an energy crisis you have power Cuts well
you could run your fridge for five hours with just the single battery bank here to stop the
food going off or you freeze or whatever you could run a washing machine for almost about
three hours with this at around 500 watts the uses of it are endless and of course if you do
go for the maximum capacity you could even connect up with their home system your into
entire house to run off this particular system here that's the flexibility that it does have
I love the fact that it has the two Qi wireless charging pads at the top of it other brands don't
even opt for this and I know yes you could plug one in of course but as I pointed out imagine you
lost your cables you're in an emergency situation but you happen to have this here with you at least
you can charge your phone make an emergency call or whatever you're going to be up and
running when you don't have a cable flexibility of it is great it can handle surges up to 6
000 Watts if need be if you're plugging in a couple of appliances and there's that extra
load that's going to go through then of course you will hear the fans come on too as well which
is one of the downsides of these that when you put it under those High loads it has to cool
down the internals it's got plenty of safety built into it so battery battery management system the
application overall it is a really solid package here from Blue tea the ac300 with their solar
panels as well if you were going to go camping or even though it's quite big or you're in an RV kind
of setup you've got a motor home it's another option you do have is you could get these solar
panels here put them up charge up the modular battery and you're probably good for camping
in an RV or something like that your motorhome all night and then you're ready to go the next
day or you might have one of these solar panels on the roof and then you're good to go so thank you
so much for watching my video here of the blue T AC 300 system the B300 the PV 350 and many thanks
to Blue t for sending out all this gear here to me so I could review it and cover it here