so Bluetooth sent this out to me it is the AC 180 it's got an 1800 watt output so that can power of
about 99 of your power tools and appliances and things that you'd want to run on it this does have
a capacity of 1152 Watt hours and the best part too it's using lfp cells so they're good for about
3500 Cycles before the capacity is going to drop to about 80 percent not only that this charges
very quick too so in just 45 minutes it gets up to 80 capacity and to fully charge this unit here
it's going to take around about 1.2 to 1.6 hours this is what's included in our box with the AC
180 so a QC pass quality control pass so there we have a warranty card now the warranty period
is 10 years with this model which is very good a user manual which goes over everything there's a
QR code on the back there for their website and I believe the application too which I'll show
you later in the video and then this box so inside here is where you will find all of our cables they
include a car charging cable power cable now ac1 and then the solar cables here so that's using the
mc4 connectors a lot of Brands don't even bother to include this cable so great that it is included
so the build quality of the Plastics very good of this unit typical blue T here now the input
this is 12 volts up to 60 volts and then 10 amps so you can't exceed the 500 watts with the solar
charging input there and here we have our DC output cigarette lighter this one's 12 volts
dc10 amps and we have buttons here so this is to power it on and also turn the screen off once it
times out you get all the available information on that screen but also through the application which
I'll show you soon later on so you get the wattage or time remaining battery life and that's your
input and output wattage 2 there so the DC side of things there's a button to turn this on so we
have a power delivery type c Port 100 Watts four type A's here so they are 5 volts DC 3 amps so 15
watts is the max with those so not a lot but we do have that type c port and then the AC outputs here
two of them they're 18 Watts 1800 watts they're nominal but they do Peak with their powerlifting
motor 2700 Watts which I'll be testing later on once I get inside and do my typical standard test
there this is becoming rare nowadays so many of these portable battery stations are lacking
this and it's great to see a Qi wireless standard charging wireless charging pad here it's 15 watts
the maximum output the weight of the AC 180 is not bad it's 16 kilos considering that it's got
an 1152 watt hour capacity and the relatively small size of it I do think it's excellent so
we have a fan on this side there's also one on the other this is to keep the components inside
cool once it's under load of course and it does have the BMS system in there so monitoring the
temperatures checking that it's not overheating if it does start to overheat then it automatically
switches itself off overload protection 2 with our charging so here you'll find our AC plug n to
charge it so it's very quick in 45 minutes it gets to 80 percent and there's a reset button here if
it does overload with the charge there and here we have an earth contact point there too for the pack
so it's an absolute stun of a day it's uh 2 p.m I've got the sun right overhead as you can see
it's a perfect mounted test out what kind of solar input we can get with the AC 180.
now if you haven't seen my other portable battery Station videos this is my test solar panel so 450
Watts maximum and the best I've seen at output ever is about 409 Watts okay so common CNC
don't charge it out in the sun because it will eventually overheat the BMS system will trigger
with its temperature sensors and power it all off as a safety precaution my charge rate here
is 368 Watts at the moment and it's telling me I've got about 1.6 to 1.5 hours left to fully
charge this is from 52 percent and remember that it is 500 watts maximum here so you don't want to
exceed that otherwise the overload protection will kick in and it will simply not charge
so now to test out what it's really capable of so I've used appliances I've used a lot of things
that only are about 1200 watts a thousand Watts nothing exceeding 1800 watts but I've enabled
now through the application power lifting mode so that's where it can Peak for short periods
only at about 2 700 Watts so I have a hair dryer which pulls about 2 300p 2400 it's tested out
so the output is up to 1800 watts only it's saying it's certainly using more than that
and it works but yes you hear the fan that's on so it's under a heavy load at the moment and can
it boil water this again is only stating that it's 1800 watts but it's actually putting a little bit
over that and yes it will eventually boil water so the power lifting mode is great it allows us
to use these kind of more like heater applications so a hair dryer and a kettle a jug there to boil
water that's about it now you certainly do hear that fan I would not call this a quiet portable
battery station under those heavier kind of loads the fan creeps up so here's a sample
of it and what you can expect you are going to hear it especially if you're right next to it
and the final load test and ups test here I'm going to run so I have the DC charging wirelessly
uh a iPhone at the top here we've got a portable battery Bank a 100 Watts PD and then of course
these appliances connected up and you can see it's charging it's only at 300 well or it's 400 watts
at the moment now the UPS feature I will turn on the hairdryer so we can hear the changeover if
there is any it's 20 milliseconds it's very quick so you can use this for desktop PCS
I'll pull it out now one two three the power and that swapped over almost instantaneous there you
really don't notice it so it's a very fast and quick UPS feature making this a very versatile
portable battery station I think it's a very good battery station for the power output and
the size of it and the capacity too kind of like a perfect combination because it's not too large
not too heavy and it's easy enough to move about so the handholds on it here the handles are very
solid good build quality to it and it weighs 16 kilos so easy enough to move about now the
charging input for solar up to 500 watts you have your car charging which is not going to
be very powerful and takes a very long time so that's something that you'd only kind of reserve
for an emergency situation speaking of which it's got the Qi wireless standard charger on
the top there's so many brands are just doing without that I don't know why it is maybe just
the cost of implementing it or they just don't see it as being necessary I like to see it on
portable battery stations such as this because if you go on a camping trip or something like that
imagine if you get your cable but your phone does support the wireless charging you just put it down
on the top there and it'll start charging it's a good option to have again for emergencies so the
output of it the 1800 watts is great you can power so much with that and the capacity the 1152 Watt
hours again is excellent there and the fact that it can fully will not fully charge but get up to
80 in only 45 minutes so if you forget to charge it and you're about to head out on that camping
trip that you're going to take this with you to power your devices and other things and whatnot
at least you can in 45 minutes get it to almost fully charge and you can top off the rest of it
maybe then with the car charger too so the solar test that I did with my 450 watt panel which I see
at best they're around about 400 watts fell short a little bit only getting around about 360 Watts
I expected a bit more than that but it could just be down to me needing to move the panel about but
on other days similar kind of days like this at about the same time I normally see a little more
there so I'm not too sure why that was the case now the build quality excellent the application
supports got all you need in there going through those settings and adjusting all bits and pieces
so thanks a lot for your time and watching this Hands-On here with the blue tea AC 180.