Anker Powerhouse 767: 2048Wh LiFePO4 + 2,400W Inverter?!

today we're reviewing the new anchor Powerhouse 767 and this is a high efficiency lithium iron phosphate Power Station that's designed to run your appliances if the grid were to go down so first let's cover the basic features the battery size is a little over two kilowatt hours at 2048 and they use lithium iron phosphate which means it's good for three thousand five thousand Cycles to 80 capacity and even after that point you can still use lithium-ion phosphate safely but that's what it's rated to next it has AC charging and bypass up to 1440 Watts next the solar input is actually pretty good considering the size of battery you can actually connect 1000 Watts which means at full irradiance with good solar panels you could charge this up in only two hours but for most people it's gonna be about three or four hours to charge this with solar but that's a million times better than a jackery which takes seven and a half hours to charge next the AC output is incredible especially actually for this size battery has a max output of 2400 Watts so we're going to actually put that to the test on the sales video they actually show them running a 1750 watt welder this is single phase 120 volts and if it can actually output that amount that would be incredible especially for this size battery in this form factor considering the cooling of the inverter circuit that would be remarkable next the USB ports are made by Anker and they make fantastic USB charging devices so they actually give you five ports to charge your devices with and it has a car socket for 12 volt appliances so let's fire it up and do some testing and see how capable this unit really is first let's turn it on I cannot seem to turn it on such a nice looking unit though the case is beautiful it has a handle that pulls out to be used with the wheels yeah all of this is just so nice there's a reset button maybe we should press that wow nothing really all right we're gonna connect it to an AC source and see if it will turn itself on because nothing seems to want to turn it on I don't think I've had this before on a unit this is strange let's not get our hopes up we've been disappointed a lot with these types of products as you guys know oh there we go we're 26 state of charge let's give it a large load and see what happens actually look at that 1400 Watts charging that was quick oh that's annoying there we go oh that's nice I like that one this screen is nice I actually kind of like this thing so far let's not get excited let's actually test it first now they say you can run a welder but can it run a heat gun This thing always trips the over current protection so let's see what happens and it's actually doing it that's incredible not bad let's get this up to 2400 Watts now I'm very curious oh now the cooling fans are on oh 2 700. you gotta lower it okay that is crazy holy cow this is the first impressive one we've tested in ages look at the size of this thing and it's running all of these loads 2 356. with a 2 000 watt hour battery that is nuts if they build a larger unit they're gonna dominate the market this totally destroys the older Eco flow Delta I like this this is great if this is the future of solar man I'm gonna be happy wow let's see what voltage comes out of this socket 13.4 volts that might be regulated I think they're using a higher voltage battery because this is not dropping in voltage at all even with this massive load on the battery so I think it's regulated even though it's using lithium iron phosphate dang they're doing it right wow this is nice oh look at that I cannot believe how well it did let's charge it back up what the heck is this so for the next test we were supposed to charge with solar but I found something that I really dislike they're using a hub of xt60 connectors in parallel and this could actually create a shock hazard if you connect the solar panel up here with the max input voltage of 60 volts DC to this unit all the other ones become live and these are exposed this is why we don't use xt60 connectors for anything above like RC hobby nominal voltage battery packs and it's over 50 volts DC and you can actually touch these These are exposed if you have wet hands and you go through here you could technically go through your heart and it's a high enough voltage the NEC States is a hazard so this is not well planned out they need to have a different adapter with mc4 also this is not waterproof these are not UV resistant so whatever solar panels that they're using are for temporary connection only it's not for a permanent off-grid installation which that's a bummer everything else is so capable but this is not you do not want this what would be better is an xt60 to a branch adapter for mc4 with five parallel strings that way it's protected and it's not a shock hazard it's waterproof and it's UV resistant in Industry standard so it's very strange that they chose these instead actually let's test if there's continuity between all of these I think they're all in parallel but but let's test yeah there's no protection here that's not smart so are you guys following me if you connect the solar panel right here and you touch this one and you touch this one you can get shocked it's enough to be dangerous that is not good why would they do that 60 volts DC come on guys I know the electrical engineers thinking about this could have figured that out I do not like that any exposed conductors in any system scares the heck out of me especially for beginners the people that are buying this type of unit this could cause problems now something you could do is use a solar panel with a Max VOC voltage open circuit of 50 volts there's lots of 350 to 400 watt panels that have a Max VOC of about 48 volts so if you connect these here you'll be good to go but when they tell you 60 volts and they have exposed conductors that's not good so anybody watching this use mc4 adapters to xd60 and then use traditional panels with a Max operating voltage of 48 and you'll be okay anyways let's move on we're going to connect AC power and then also connect solar power at the same time and see what happens oh look at that the max input is 263 Watts I think the battery is a bit hot let's see how long it takes until it starts charging at full rate let's see what happens if we add solar if it can increase the rate we're only charging with 32 Volts for now nope nothing it does not want to charge yet yeah let's give it some time or we could disconnect the AC input and see if it charges faster off solar at first oh no it's charging 260 Watts so no better to charge from AC or solar when the battery is hot there's a switch it either charges off of solar or it charges off of AC I wonder if you can do both at the same time that would be a downside if you can but technically makes sense for the market that's buying this they're either going to be charging it for the weekend or backup or they're going to be using it with solar only I think watch a limiting factor video he watches my channel this guy is awesome he should have a lot more subscribers if you like batteries check out his channel some really good content five years ago look at that it just started charging so after five minutes it will start charging at full speed now let's add solar and see what happens no I don't think so guys yep it is charging off AC only let's try with a higher voltage I have another power supply if we got 52 volts nope it does not care let's disconnect the AC and now I charge this from solar there we go look at that it's got a little PowerPoint tracker you can watch it tracking if 5 amps is the max output on this thing now let's connect the grid and see if it automatically transfers over and it does it turns off the solar input wow so you get either one or the other and that's it let's charge to 100 and do a capacity test and see how well it pulls it off do you guys hear that it is so quiet those cooling fans are barely making any noise at all compared to a blue Eddie or an ecoflow this thing is much quieter I don't know what they're doing differently here this has an expandable battery yeah it does why did they not send it out with this test unit that's strange we could have tested that out as well that's a bummer oh look at this the charging efficiency is 96 that's really good maybe that's why it's charging so fast because all that power is going straight into the battery it's charging remarkably fast actually we're gonna have to do a long term review because so far this is actually a pretty impressive unit if these are reliable after a year of people buying them I could recommend this over the ecoflow Delta the original one because this is better in every single way and price like the output the capacity the input everything is better than ecoflow and they're the leader so this might be pretty promising actually now their solar panels are expensive they did not send those out to me but I would not 200 Watts you get two of them so 400 watts for 900 yeah absolutely not that is way overpriced so yeah if you buy this unit stick to this and then use an xt60 to mc4 adapter and that way you'll be able to connect high quality panels that will last a very long time especially if you want to use this in an RV or a cabin or anywhere where you have a permanently mounted glass solar panel as long as you do not exceed 60 volts DC you'll be set it would be so nice if they had a 150 volt input on this thing that would be fantastic now it has an interesting power saving mode it's not like other power stations on this one it will shut down once all of your devices are fully charged so if you have lots of loads connected then the consumption goes to zero Watts I guess it turns it all off pretty interesting and I just connected the Bluetooth and it was seamless it worked perfectly so let's get ready for our capacity test it is now fully charge and it's in bypass mode right now so if we plug this in it will not use the battery and look at that there's no consumption now when I disconnect the AC input it will switch over to the battery so we're going to just disconnect that I didn't even see a flicker was there a Flicker and it is running the load this thing is dead silent there is no noise coming from it with this size load this is 469 Watts it shows it on the app I wonder if you can change if the inverter will turn itself on if it has solar power available so let's check and I'm not seeing that feature anywhere so if you discharge this battery to zero and you have solar power available you're gonna have to turn on the inverter's output manually and that is very unfortunate it's a very basic feature that all off-grid Solar Power Systems have except for these mobile solar power stations for whatever reason they could easily add it in a firmware update and there will be some in the future that will have that and I would think that these companies would rush to have that feature to differentiate themselves to the others but still they have proven themselves to be very incompetent in that regard specifically Eco flow in blue Eddie it's a basic feature and they still don't have it and now anchor doesn't have this basic feature either it's really unfortunate but everything else on the app is very nice I mean I can't complain about this 469 Watts let's see if we can pull full capacity at the AC output actually I'm going to reduce this load because this is a little too high we need to have a 0.2 C of rate that is the industry standard yeah that's not going to work oh this one's only 247. actually let's see if it pulls full capacity I think it might so 469 Watts let's see if we can pull full capacity at the AC output oh so if you take the capacity of the AC output and you're divided by the battery's capacity we get 91.7 percent efficiency and on the website there's actually an article that talks about the type of transistors that they're using they're gallium nitride and they work at higher temperatures and there's less energy loss but nowhere in here does it tell me the inverter efficiency so yeah 91 is good um typically I like 93 maybe 95 but it is above 90 which is fantastic also we did a 0.25 C rate test and in this article on their website it doesn't tell you at what rate these capacity figures and these efficiency loss figures are for so I can't really determine anything it's not in the manual either now what still amazes me is how quiet this thing is we are now charging at full speed in a low state of charge and it is dead silent now the next test is long-term cycling I'm going to connect this to its own dedicated solar panel array and I'm going to see if I've run into any issues and we should look for more reviews to see if if anybody has any issues with these units and over time I'm sure people will find problems with this thing in this review video with some quick testing it's pretty incredible the AC output is highly capable if you're looking for a truly off-grid system where you're cycling with solar every day I would not buy this I would save up for an ecoflow Delta Pro because it has a higher input voltage and it has more features but as a standalone backup battery just for some cell phones in your refrigerator this might be fantastic if you're not using this with solar this might be the perfect unit for you now personally I do not like the xt60 connector for the solar input but I'll have a cable available Below in Branch adapters if you don't want to use this if you want to use mc4 instead I'll have an option below because this is is not logical come on guys you could have done better than this also they might have firmware updates in the future where they can have some form of autonomy with the inverter output so it will turn back on if solar power is available and hopefully they'll have a larger model soon that's comparable to an ecoflow Delta Pro with a higher PV input voltage limit but we'll see but is a standalone battery with some wheels on it I must admit this is fantastic if you're not using it for solar and you just need a backup battery this is great now because anchor is an established company I would not be scared to recommend this product because I have tons of anchor devices I have anchor flashlights anchor usb chargers and lots of random cables and cords that I bought from them in the past I think this will work fine for a long time but I'm going to cycle it long term to see what problems I can find and I hope in the future they have a split phase output configuration unit with a higher input voltage maybe 450 or 500 volts that would be fantastic but overall exciting they did a good job and I'm actually impressed um typically these things fail pretty much every test I throw at them so this was pretty good so I hope you guys like the quick review we're gonna have more testing and maybe I'll find something juicy in the near future when these products work my videos become very boring but when they fail then it becomes really fun so yeah we'll continue testing this and I'll report back if I find anything bad there will be an affiliate link below and also other links to my website and to The Forum if you need help with off-grid DIY solar please check out my form it's free for everybody and for Forum members we're going to be doing giveaways in the future I'm actually going to give away free batteries and it'll be really fun so yeah please sign up for the form and check it out if you can so thank you so much for watching and I will see in the next one bye

Channel: DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse

Views: 265,233

Keywords: anker will prowse, anker 767, anker powerhouse

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Length: 15min 43sec (943 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023