do you need portable power on the go or are you looking for a solar generator for those emergency
situations at home in any case you're in the right place hello i'm Wanderer001 and this is my review
of the Bluetti eb 55 Bluetti did reach out to me to do a review of this product and gave me
the opportunity to purchase it at a discount with that out of the way let's talk about what we're
getting with the eb 55 because i'm going to say Bluetti wrong at some point during this review
the Bluetti is a portable power station that is a compact solar generator you've probably
heard that term used it simply means that it has an internal battery that can be charged either
from your electricity in your house or solar panels if you happen to pick them up
the eb-55 is actually one of their more compact high-capacity solar generators and what do i mean
by that well you're looking at a device that is 10.9 inches long has a width of 7.8 and a height
of 7.9 so very small fits into places now you do see the top here so let's actually start talking
about the general construction of the eb-55 it is plastic all around which is great if you
think about it because one that helps to keep it lightweight but also keeps it from getting
damaged because well if you scratch plastic you don't have to worry about it rusting out the eb55
top features a flat surface with a retractable handle now i know it looks a little flimsy on
camera however i will say that it is really good like if i pick this up and i shake it around
it has a definite strong stop feel and you see it's no worse for wear there's a nice channel to
get your finger under there to pick it up and it helps to keep the handle flush with the top of it
so even though Bluetti says you're not supposed to put things on top of this because i ran i read the
actual instruction manual for this a lot of people say it's good that you can put things on top of
this because the handle folds flat yes it makes storage of this or lightweight materials on top
of it a little easier but keep in mind not really supposed to put things on top of it but included
on the top of it actually is right here this is a 15 watt wireless charging pad so if you happen to
have a cell phone that takes advantage of wireless charging simply place your phone on the top and
you can start charging it we'll discuss that a little more later we're going to come to the front
of the device because well that's where everything actually is and that is an interesting thing that
the eb 55 has over other solar generators is that all of the inputs and outputs are
on the front of the device and you can see they have them segmented off with these little lines
to make it easier for you to know what things are grouped together and then you have your display
right there and again we're going to come back to that coming around to the side you have your
fan input and then on the back you have a diffused led light which has three settings
low high and sos we're going to turn that off real quick so you don't get bombarded with that coming
across to the other side we have our fan exhaust and i'm going to flip this around to the bottom
you've got rubber feeties to help keep the eb55 in place and help give it a little space between the
surface and where you have it to help with airflow now one of the important things with a portable
solar generator is actually the weight of it and the eb 55 here is 16.3 pounds in weight
just for the device itself however if you're going to bring along the charging peripheral
for the eb-55 the weight jumps up to 18.3 and realistically if you're not going away for short
weekends or just you know keeping this round in case of emergency you're going to need that extra
charging peripheral so it does bring up the weight of this quite a bit but speaking of that charging
peripheral let's take a look at it as well as other things that you get with the eb-55 here we
have the actual charging brick for the eb 55 and i will say this is what added all that extra weight
to the unit itself and part of that is because they took all those electronics that you would
have seen in other solar generators and put them in here now the oddity of this is it has its own
fan which even if it's not plugged into the eb 55 to charge it the fan will constantly run and
that's to help keep the temperature of the brick down as you might imagine something is bulky does
create quite a bit of heat moving on the eb-55 also comes with a standard mc4 solar connector
as well as your dc charging cable and all of this is included with a little thing to help
keep everything in one place so while you're on the go you can wrap everything up and not lose it
which is a nice touch especially if you have other solar generators inside the eb 55 is a 537 watt
hour battery that is not to be confused with the 700 watt output that you might have seen advertise
keep in mind what hour is size of battery what output is how much you can get from all of your
stations on the front of it one of the interesting tricks that the eb 55 and a lot of other Bluetti
products have over the competition right now is their use of lipo4 batteries and what that is is a
lithium-ion phosphate battery which is very different than your lithium-ion battery which a
lot of the competitors use this allows the eb-55 and other Bluetti products to have a greater
charge cycle to that a lot of batteries in other solar generators currently use lithium ion which
only have about a 500 ish charge cycle before you start seeing degradation of the battery itself
with the iron phosphate battery that we have in the eb 55 you're looking at 2500 cycles before
you start to see a degradation down to 80 of battery life now what does that mean for you well
that means that you can charge the eb 55 every day for six years before you'll see any degradation
in the battery itself i don't know about you but the ability to charge a battery for six
years and not have to worry about it lowering its capacity is a godsend to me and when i'm looking
at something like this but of course the internal battery itself is useless unless we can plug it
into things and charge things so let's take a look at the front of the eb 55 here so we can
find out what we can actually charge well right here you can see dc outputs right here we have a
singular usbc that can output up to a hundred watts and then we've got a set of usb type
connectors right here so right this is gonna take care of all of your computers your cell phones
things of that nature over on the right we have our ac output so here we have four outlets however
only two of them have the false grounding area and to me that's a little bit of a hit against
the eb 55 because i kind of like having that ground in there and just based on the space
that's here i wish they kind of could have stacked one more i don't have a lot of devices that only
plug into two prongs so missing those grounds kind of hurts it a little bit in my opinion
the outlets themselves support pure sine wave technology you're going to be looking
for something like that on any solar generator that you get because what that'll allow you to do
is power sensitive equipment like computers or other electronics and not have to worry about
a fluctuating spike of power screwing those up so you really want to pay attention to make sure that
something like the eb 55 has that which it does but we also have our dc output right up here
so you've got your cigarette lighter and your barrel plugs the flaps i will admit to keep
things out of places that it shouldn't be is nice they sink in rather well and they have a
connector to kind of keep them in place we then come over here to the left which is our inputs
similarly you have a flap kept in place and you've got your generic port that's going to be for your
dc charging cable your mc4 connectors and then here this is your barrel port for the actual
charging brick that comes with the eb55 now you'll notice that each of these sections as i mentioned
before is kind of squared off and has a button next to it that button will turn on the display
if tapped quickly but if pressing held in place it will turn on a green light that means that section
is powered on now the eb-55 here can handle up to 13 devices simultaneously as long as they don't
exceed the maximum output of 700 watts the buttons themselves are a little tricky to see the green
light is not the brightest and that's coming from an inside with two spotlights just imagine try and
see this outside and the buttons themselves are a little finicky and touchy they wiggle a little
more than i would like in something like this something to mention the charging pad on the top
will not actually work until you turn on your dc output so if you put something down on there and
wonder why it's not working make sure you turn that on first with any good solar generator the
important part is the display that lets you know everything that's happening with the unit itself
on the eb 55 aside from not staying on that long which isn't terrible because what you want it to
preserve battery life not displaying the screen you might notice a little flickering of the screen
i assure you that is just because i have cfl lights and the camera is trying to make up for
led panel with cfl lights right here we have our battery indicator now you'll notice that is broken
down into 20 segments and in my opinion not the greatest i know that they have improved this on
on other Bluetti products however the eb 55 has this older model where you only have
20 chunks which means one you don't know quite how quickly it's charging or how
quickly the battery is being utilized we do have a input and output wattage over there one thing
i've noticed with the screen that is a little odd is that depending on the draw that you get
and i'm going to plug in two batteries that need charging and they both are indicating right here
that they are charging you'll notice it's not actually displaying
any watts being taken from the battery there is a minimum that this will display before it starts so
i have another battery pack plugged in and here we go it popped up to seven i first noticed this when
i was testing my cell phone versus the outlets over here versus over here and notice it looks
like four watts is about the cutoff before it will start recording that on the screen so just be
aware if you have batteries or something that uses less voltage you might see that and still they'll
be charging food for thought and then right here this is eco mode well what eco mode does is
if you happen to leave this on for whatever reason it will actually turn itself off what do i mean by
that well i mean if you leave a section turned on it's green if your eco mode is turned on well it
will make sure that within a couple hours it will turn that off now if for whatever reason you don't
like eco mode being on because well maybe you need this to stay on and not turn off you simply press
and hold both your ac and your dc and it might be tricky to see but now your watt is blinking and
once your watt is blinking if you come over and select dc you'll notice eco mode is turned off
you then come and press ac and dc again to lock it in and you'll notice that your watts are no longer
blinking if you're wondering how to turn off eco mode that's how you do it now i mentioned size
of battery i mentioned output that's all well and good put your money where your mouth is and that's
why i ran several different tests to see what this could power and what this couldn't power so
let's take a look at some of those tests to give you an idea of what the eb55 can actually power
running both my youtube spotlights off the battery 39 watts running a stationary fan
on high off the eb 55 we're not even going to try for low we're going straight to high
initial start was 51 average run about 43 44. can power an assortment of batteries
and a computer running video game perfectly fine
old school black and decker jigsaw before power consumption was really a concern
managed to get the fans turned on on the unit by cranking it a couple times
old school black and decker power drill
instantly turn the fan on
see it gets up to about 250.
it does level off fairly quickly space heater test fan only
18 watts 16 no problem space heater actually on low rotating jumps up quite high
and overloads it on low fans turn on full heat gun test low
low is about 368. it's handling the low pretty well it's not spiking we're gonna go up to high
probably gonna overload yeah as soon as it saw the power surge it stopped before it even got past
what it's capable of can it run a stand mixer we're just going to crank it right up to high
will it run a dyson vacuum cleaner we're not even going to turn the brushes on
got the 1000 before it kicked off a little tricky to see but actually running a wi-fi router
tv streaming fire stick off the tv all plugged in to the into the Bluetti and you can see
runs all three perfectly fine you can still have entertainment in a blackout pretty good for the
actual size of this and the output that it can produce now obviously once you start using this
you want to know how long does it take to charge can i use solar as i mentioned you can use solar
if you plug this in using the included brick that they give you you can get to about 50 in two hours
i saw a maximum input from the power brick of about 209 i did set up a time lapse the problem is
even when this is plugged in charging the display does not stay on i get there trying to save power
but i wish that would have stayed on so i would have seen better maximum input you can also charge
this with up to 200 watts of solar i did try using a 160 watt other brand solar panel and was
able to get from zero to eighty percent in about seven hours leaving it outside not perfect sun
just throwing the panel out there not terrible getting about 113 watts today
let's see how long it takes to charge in the remaining sunlight that i have
fancy dawn
one of the things that you need to consider when charging is actually heat well the power
brick itself got up to 99 degrees which isn't terrible especially since it has
an internal fan and has those feet underneath it to keep it off the surface the the body of
the eb 55 only got to 79 degrees fahrenheit which to me is not bad at all now i was able
to really like get the fans going when i was testing it and fan noise i will admit when they
really get going it is noticeable however for most people unless you're in a very
small closing spot this is not going to be that loud especially if you're using
this as a backup power solution or if you're doing this for camping reasons well you know a
little fan noise while you're charging your cell phone or your laptop is not bad at all
so overall what do i think of the eb 55 first being i have found the buttons to be rather
finicky and that includes the buttons for the light on the back i wish they were a little more
sensitive and that they would show up a little better when you actually turn them on i wish
the screen was programmable so i could tell it how long i would like it to stay on not just for
reviews but if i have this out i want to be able to see exactly how much power is being drawn or
inputted or how many bars i have left i dislike having to constantly click on it to see how
many bars i have left i do wish that there was an active hours left for the battery but like i said
in some of the newer Bluetti products they do have that this particular model does not i like the
battery chemistry giving you those 2600 cycles no other solar generator that i've seen on the market
is doing that so that's something that is very strong in the favor of the eb 55 as well as its
compact size and like i said the handle folding down while you're not supposed to put stuff on top
does make this easier to pack away for trips one hindrance or not depending on if you've looked
at these at all pricing pricing of any solar generator is going to be a little on the expensive
side however the eb 55 does fit snugly in the market for those with the same watt hour capacity
and size however a lot of its competitors will not allow you to have those 2600 cycles
just remember that that's that's one of the key factors that i really like about the eb 55
over other solar generators so if you like compact size different battery
makeup than other solar generators out there i recommend checking out the Bluetti eb55
it fits a very unique need that i had and i think it could do the same for you with that being said
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