Hey YouTube, Frank Brand here
Just, a few of you seen my portable
power pack on my website and on YouTube
and several you requested a breakdown of
how I built this power back and what its comprises
it has been a project that I've been working on now for
almost a year it's been
at least a good 9 months in the coming
and I'll make reference to some other videos
that kind of inspired me to head down this path and know that
when I was looking at building a some sort of
ultimately I wanted to go to the powerwall I wanted to build
something I could run solar panels and
not necessarily be off the grid to be more independent
and be self-sustaining so sufficient but
I didn't want to take on something as large as a powerwall
until I had done some smaller projects
and so this was the first project I chose
and the reason I chose this size is because
I wanted something that was portable
that I could and took with me where I needed to go
that had enough power where I could
sustain myself for at least several days if not a week or longer
and be able to provide enough
power from my family and in our needs
I also thought it would be nice to be able to run like our
refrigerator or freezer or
even heat in the house
if necessary run on natural gas or a lot of times
sometimes just having the air handler move there is a big
problem or concerned so if I can
put in a power source that allow me to run
even when the power is out then I could have heat in my house so
that was really shoot and to be able to take care of
our needs for electricity I need for electricity
this here right now is rated at 2.2 kilowatts
most if fact all of the cells
that are in here there are 240 cells
that comprise into three separate packs
that make up a 12 volt battery
has a 1500 watt inverter
and so far I'm happy with it
I haven't had a chance to do a full-blown test on at where I'm
running my refrigerator in my freezer and if it's not enough
I'm going to have to up the ante a little bit maybe go to a 3000 watt
but for right now I think that being able to
just have a project where I built something
was really the first step and so
I learned a lot over the course the last nine months
and I've seen other videos where guys have built
solar generators portable solar generators in this
one here will eventually go solar it's not so right now
just haven't had the money to
put into solar panels
and looking things up I've been looking at several different options
when it comes to solar panels but the pack itself
has enough room I actually have enough room inside here
to put another 2 kilowatts of power and
I just bought some fresh cells
so I'll have an opportunity either had some of those here or
use them another applications but right now this
charges off the wall so it's running 110 off the wall
to charge cells and
other than that it's actually pretty good little unit I
put in four
GFI rated outlets and so I have
outlets and in the front I have USB ports and
a 12-volt just regular
car adapter so that I can run
devices that you would normally run on 12 volt
it's made out of a Rigid toolbox
picked up the Home Depot
the other thing I got a couple of the projects I'm working on
that are actually smaller than this there more a
emergency based you need to carry in a backpack or
take with you on maybe a hike or on a camping trip
where you need to charge some devices or run some lights
so I'm working on those and I'll have some videos
on how I break those down and how I make thrm, I'm not going to recreate this
to show you how it's done but I will show you each of the components in here
and I will break it down so that you can actually see how I built it
and if you have questions please feel free to ask
I was definitely learning experience I know it's not perfect
there probably so lot of things I could have done different or better
but I feels pretty good I mean it looks okay
I think it's it's kind of a clean look so
I was really hoping to be able to share that with you
and some of the nuances of it so with that I'm going to have
probably a couple videos here or I'll break them into smaller segments
but I'll talk about each of the different components
within this portable power pack
so that you can see what what I did
and how I actually constructed it and how would actually functions
so with that I will catch you in the next video.