whatever this is it doesn't play music
well that's because it's not uh it's not a ghetto blaster from 1980 Gary it is the Power Oak
AC50 which is essentially an incredibly large battery okay so there's lots of reviews out there
but most of them are really looking at the person that maybe tows their accommodation behind their
vehicle don't they yes the world of the caravan or camper and that's certainly not us it is Joe
Robinson he is a man who likes to spend his life on the summer holiday under an awning fending for
himself it does but we're going to use this in relationship to where we believe the electrician
would best suited it should we take a closer look at it yeah have a closer look so this is actually
a 500 watt hour battery wow and if we look at this front panel obviously it's got lots of different
outputs it's got a pure AC sine wave output that can power up to 300 watts of devices across both
sockets okay so 300 watts but the overall power of it is actually 450 but we can't get that out of
the socket outlet not out of socket outlet but you can get it out obviously some additional power out
of what i would call the cigarette lighter um what i believe now people call it the accessory outlet
so it's 120 watts there i'll do the maths for you Gary 12 volts 10 amps 120 watts there's some DC
outlets there we haven't got a clue what you would use them for drop a comment below with
uh sensible suggestions and then possibly the bit that attracted us to this product lots and lots of
USBC outputs including the 45 watt USBC with power delivery mode which is something we're going to
see more and more of going forward so overall 450 watts but one socket outlet 300 watt max yeah and
you can take where it's got a nice little display on here well that is nice yeah yeah so you can see
the obvious input power in your charging will come up to that later you can switch the DC outputs on
and off and obviously then you can see what power you're drawing from them and one additional method
of getting power out of it on the top we've got a wireless charging output so if you drop your
mobile phone on there you can charge it wirelessly oh right okay got it all covered then really
so that's pretty good i mean yeah so we've got we we use loads of devices that USBC
ipads our radio mics yeah so we we have this out on site when we're down at the ELEX Show
we did yeah we're down there with David Savery and you can just see in the background we've used it
all the time we've been there it's often when you get to those stands we're on a stand when we that
you haven't got access to a socket outlet so we took the mighty Power Oak with us and kept us
going all day and i carried it around for two days at the end of the day took it away took it back to
the hotel room and yeah and it it's been great at that but now we're going to look at what really
you might think about what applications could electricians find for this Gary so i'm thinking
domestic dwelling you go in there maybe you're doing an EICR or maybe doing some work where
the power's gotta be off and then the customers at home obviously got a laptop maybe their router and
also their mobile devices need charging drop this on top of their desk walk away i'm sure that'll
be a happy customer won't it yeah yeah they can keep working as a lot of people work from home
these days apparently yeah you plug in everything and yeah keep going for 500 watts worth of time
which for a laptop is probably the full working day uh yeah internet routers don't take up much
much power so it's ideal for that it's not going to power the kettle though is it while you're on
site no not going to power the kettle before we move on to kettles let's just have a look
at actually how you charge this device okay um so on the back here again if i flip it over should
we have a little closer look in there well there's two things here first thing we've got a light well
everything has a light doesn't it yeah which you might have powered it on and put the DC output on
okay so turn it on okay i've got a light we've got two levels on the light and what i thought was SOS
which i think was dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot but i'm not sure that is but anyway it's
probably it's as it flashed doing something uh switch that off and here's our input socket here
so it comes with a power adapter that you can plug in we've got on the bench here and i'll just plug
that in mains power adapter yeah yeah and then we'll just i wonder if you'll know whether it's
uh charging you will now oh yeah so there's the fans kicked in so that's charging up at
86 watts and obviously as that goes on yeah 86 watts to charge 500 watts
it's yeah do the math Gary five or six hours yeah five or six hours so it does take quite a while
to charge up so you're gonna you don't want to forget it in the morning just half an hour
before you leave the house bang it on well you're not going to forget it because a final reminder
something's blown away in the background and when you talk about don't forget in it it's just just
over six kilograms in weight so yeah it's like an exercise ball as well when you take it which if
you watch the caravan reviewers they don't think that's that heavy because they're used to lugging
lead acid batteries around white so that's why in the morning they're used to disposing of things
to a chemical situation just do that for you once again it's only just over six kilograms in weight
which is fantastic yeah so some of those options you can charge it from a cigarette lighter or
these days we call it the accessory socket in a car so that lead comes with it and you also
get another lead that you can connect up to a solar panel right okay yeah which is obviously
you can buy uh but then i thought again thinking that a van is the future here guys thickness you
can get very thin solar panels you could put one on the roof of your van and have this in the back
and people will stop you and say does your car just run on the uh solar above you yeah
that's great and i know these are not just in the UK obviously they're worldwide i'm
probably thinking north america i'm thinking in Australia or maybe where that sun is
slightly more uh poignant in the day than perhaps here in Skipton it's always sunny and Skipton
Gary's everyone knows um so one thing with all those leads that they could have done with right
as well as a dab radio yeah and that's confusing because you know suggesting that looks like a
speaker and that looks like a speaker and actually neither of the speakers yeah it could do with
uh a little box to keep the leads in right okay because yeah it needs a pouch or just something
yeah something extra in it maybe just to drop those lights or you know i wouldn't like leaving
my phone on top of there perhaps built in in that pouch could have been an area to charge
your phones and possibly some of those USB sockets inside something well we're talking about those
USB sockets we've only got one USBC but it's good to see but i say we know that's the direction of
travel we're going to see more and more of them but Gary i see you brought out on the bench one
of my favorite products okay so we needed something to drain the energy from a battery
so nothing better on the planet than draining energy from batteries than the Makita coffee maker
you can almost make a couple of cups of coffee with one battery so it was ideally suited wasn't
it to drain the battery and then plug it in and see how many charges we could get now what's your
math saying that we're gonna get okay so the setup we've got here we've got four amp hour uh 18 volt
LXT battery right which it tells me on the label here is 72 watt hours so 72 watts for an hour
we've got a 500 watt hour battery there going in Carol that should be nearly seven
nearly seven so however so you're telling me that the math suggests that we can charge up seven of
those in a day but we can obviously do it on the Makita coffee machine yeah but obviously we've got
our mains charger nobody yet makes a one that you can plug into a USBC that would be good it would
be good um or the cigarette lighter or accessory socket in your van which sounds better yeah um
so the challenge there we're gonna have some losses because obviously we've got
we're gone from yeah the fan's quite noisy i imagine there's a loss there the fan we've got
to power the fan we've got the yeah we're going from DC to AC back to uh DC wow yeah and then
we're going to dump it into the um dump it into the coffee maker so we nearly charged that Makita
battery five times only nearly which is two and a half liters of warm solution we got over here
so i think for those people who own a Makita coffee maker this must be the ideal tool to
take around with you in order to make well about nine cups of coffee in a day yeah well plus minus
what leaks out of the bench this does leak like a leaky sieve sometimes but i would suggest if you
if you're drinking nearly two and a half liters of coffee a day clearly you're not doing a lot of
work no no probably not but it just shows you that that battery is going to do what we're going to do
almost five charges so think of your power tools a couple of drills multi-tool etc do you believe
that having fully charged maybe at the start of the day and the ability to charge them four more
times do you think i'll see you through a day yeah that depends not if you're drinking that amount of
coffee but yeah think of where you're going to be charging as well if you're on a big site and it's
a centralized location where the power supply is do you trust everybody on that site Gary not to
uh swap their battery it might be its end of life with your new batteries absolutely yeah
it's a chance for you to store this into your van and actually do your charging now i think that's
probably a safer way of keeping your batteries to your drills yeah now final chance again i thought
well let's just see how it works so for those people who don't have battery power tools right
i don't do a lot of uh a lot of scuffing that's uh that's my old boss used to call so you're gonna
you're gonna fire this up then i'll look let's just see so we've got a uh let's just fire it up
and i didn't realize when i pulled this out actually this is actually rated at 580 watts
on load probably yeah yeah when you're right yeah destroying the load of metal but there's
probably quite a significant search to get this started it's a mortar and it cops with that yeah
but nobody uses plug-in tools anymore apparently not no no
so the review from our point of view is based on your feedback now do you believe something
of this item and is it cheap we'll put a link in the description you can go and have a look
you can go and have a look deep breath forks yeah it's uh it's a it's an investment so but
the equation to do is it cheaper than buying lots of batteries right okay yeah to uh to
keep you going throughout the day or having that on the van and that ability to offer a bit of
temporary power to the customer to keep them up and running see that's that to me that's the key
point that is to me it's the domestic dwelling dropping on a table problem's gone away and
it router back on all the rest of it however it's your feedback okay so the Power Oak and
it's the AC50 that we looked at today there are others in the range have you got one leave your
feedback have you thought about getting one and this video has done something to maybe sway you
one way or another leave all those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can