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How I Got More Power Without Buying Expensive Add-Ons! – Transcript
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- The speaker explains how to save money on power stations by avoiding expensive manufacturer add-on batteries.
- The speaker uses a 2560 watt hour battery made by xdn as a cost-effective alternative to power supply add-ons.
- By plugging the external battery into the solar input of the power station, the unit charges and provides extra capacity.
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how would you like to save hundreds of dollars and I'm serious if you're into Power stations and you're thinking about buying a power station particularly those power stations that have add-on batteries that you can buy like the blue EDI the ecoo the anchor all of those guys out there stick around cuz I'm going to show you how not to spend in that extra fancy battery to plug into your power station so that you have more power and to show you that I'm going to pull a couple things from over here
right in front of me and then we're going to talk about how I could save you that money standby now this is not a sponsored video though full disclosure I didn't buy these components and I'm not required to make this video for these two companies just so you know all right let's talk one of the things I see a lot lately is people buying portable power stations like this one right here and buying the manufacturers add-on battery for those
and the first one I looked up to get some prices this morning and I I already knew basically what those prices were but the first one I looked up it was on sale for $4.99 and change so basically $500 now that battery was a 1,000 wat hour battery the next company I looked at to get 2,000 wat hours was $1,000 for another one and I thought holy smokes
even at $500 $500 to get 1,000 wat hours means $11,000 to get 2,000 wat hours well guess what this guy right here is a a 256w battery it's 100 amp hour 25.6v battery made by xdn now I've also done another video very similar to this one where I tested a similar setup to what I'm going to show you here but for now I want to show you this one because this one works brilliantly but there are a
couple things that I want to mention before I show it to you the first thing is you need to know what your solar input is on your power station what the maximum is maximum voltage and maximum amperage that's really important if for example you have a power station with a maximum input voltage of 20 volts then that is really designed for a 12vt solar
panel for example a 100 watt foldable solar panel is typically around 20 Vols 5 amps that's 5 * 20 = 100 and I have one here this one here is a jackary panel and they work great most of those power stations are rated for those the smaller ones but the bigger ones are often rated for much higher power this particular Power Station can take 50 volts coming in actually
11250 if you're going to try to plug in a 12vt battery into a lot of those units it's actually better to convert it to 24 volts and you can do that with this guy this is called a buck converter and all it does is it takes 12 volts and it converts it to 24 and it will allow a 10 Amp Max that's perfect perfect for small power stations that can only allow 24 volts to come in but on a power station
like this one the bigger power stations and I think all of your brands are going to be like this whether it's blue Eddie anchor Eagle flow doesn't matter they all have limits a bit higher H to 50 plus volts so you can definitely get some higher voltages in your bigger power supplies now the next thing you want to look at for your power supply is what kind of solar input does it have because if it has the D style or the 8mm type style like this then you're going
to have to get a cable to match that if it has an xt60 well then you're going to have to get an xt60 or an xt90 which is what this is you'll have to get a cable like that you can see here that I just have this cable hooked up to the positive and negative on my battery with this xt90 connector that xt90 connector will go right into the xt90 solar input on this power station this is the afre
p210 it's a 24 400 W pure sine wave inverter built into this with a 248 WTH battery now this unit's a great unit I've used it to run power saws table saws miter saws and compressors so it can really take a beating and you could actually run my cabin off of this power station if and only if you added some backup power to it and that's what a lot of people are trying to do today it's
easier I think for a lot of people to buy portable power stations than to build their own do-it-yourself power so instead of going out buying a charge controller buying an inverter getting all the breakers and fuses and solar panels and racks and all those things a lot of people are actually putting in small solar arrays getting someone else to put it in even for them I saw a post recently about a company that put in a small solar array to charge up an
ecoflow system and they had one ecoflow portable power station I think it had a 1,000 wat hours or 2,000 W hours so basically something either half this size or about this size now by the way afre even at $900 which was the latest price I saw on this one is at least 50% less than those more expensive ones could be even more than that and by 50% I'm saying those those more expensive
ones run about $1,500 to $2,000 so $900 I could run my cabin off this with this extra battery so how do you do it it's actually really simple folks on the afre on the back side there's a little little door that flips up and you've got your xt90 it says DC xt90 input 11.5 to 50 volts 500 wat Max so that would be 50
volts at 10 amps okay so we take that and all we do is we take this connector and plug it in right there did you hear that fan word up look at that there's 500 watts coming in right now and we we are at 99% so we're actually pulling just over 500 watts
look at that 5'11 I saw at one point so we are literally charging up the power station with this battery now you might say well yeah but you're just charging it up ah but you see that's the beauty of this I can plug something directly into this power station and run it right now and it would work fine let's do it right behind you is the light that I
using for filming so let's get that light and plug it in here and see what happens what happens pull this over here flip this up stick that in and turn that on let's see what happens folks all right we're pulling 500 oh I got to turn the light back on
now there goes the light we're still pulling 500 watts and output is now 21 watts to run the light full charge time is 12 minutes and we're actually running that light pulling over 20 watts so what that means is that by plugging this in to the solar input the unit it it doesn't care it's dumb all it knows is that it has 25.6 volts coming in it can
use 20 amps of that and so it's going to use that to get that 500 watts of charging and if this is full and I turn that light off it'll stop doing anything it'll just sit there with all that extra capacity right here that's 2560 W hours of capacity that it can fully use before it touches the battery in the power station itself and that's how that works so you don't have to buy those really expensive batter I mean
they're fancy let's those companies make those really fancy they put readouts and buttons and things on them so you can see just what that battery is doing but you know what I can put a multimeter on this and see what my battery is doing just as well I got a fancy meter right here I don't need one on my battery and I'm certainly not going to pay hundreds of dollars more to get that one when I can get this
and again that was $500 for a 1,00 wat battery probably 1,24 wat hours but nonetheless that's less than half the capacity of this one here which is 260 W the xdn today $0000 2560 wat hours $900 248 wat hours plus the inverter and everything else we're
at 100% we're putting out 21 Watts we're still pulling in 250 now why would you still be pulling in 250 well a lot of times these guys will say 100% it's rounded up it can't say 99.7 or 6 or five or whatever but it's obviously ramping down how much power it's using off this battery in order to fully charge the battery battery up on the power station once it's fully charged if I shut this light off it'll go back to
zero and it'll just sit there and won't do anything we're going to be using this this weekend to run some crockpots while we're camping because I don't have Lio fors in my camper so I'm just going to take this along plug it into this guy here and run those all day and we'll be out Wheeling all day in my Jeep come back and we'll have some nice chili ready for dinner this will do that because at 4,600 wat hours it's plenty of power for
this thing to run that crock poot it's going to work great so there you have it hey drop a line let me know did I save you some money had you thought about doing this before if not let me know or even if you have let me know and if you run one of those more expensive units and you've bought their batteries are you thinking about it now wondering H I wonder if I could do more we'll drop a link in the video below to all of these items on Amazon so you can check them out and let me know what you think
meanwhile folks I'm going to drop another video right here for you to check out I appreciate you watching yall have a great day the old jar head out