Anker Powerhouse 767 : The new TOP DOG of large power stations

hey folks welcome back to the channel I am Brian and today we're going to be taking a look at this anchor Powerhouse 767. now gang I've reviewed an absolute ton of power stations from the smallest power stations up to the largest blue Eddies and ecoflows and to date I'll just tell you that this is the nicest most refined power station that I've ever reviewed and if you've ever looked at buying a little external phone charger or any type of those little power Banks you probably have heard of anchor now this is their first kind of dive into the larger Power Station segment they do have some smaller models available but this is the biggest model that they offer everything on this unit is just so much nicer than anything that I've ever had the opportunity to review now obviously gang I'm not remiss of the fact that this thing is expensive but if you were in the market or if you're looking for a large lithium iron phosphate Power Station you've probably researched the blue Eddie or the ecoflow Delta Max or one of those larger power stations and they're kind of all in the same price point right now for Nineteen Hundred and ninety nine dollars now folks I am not an affiliate of anchor so I'm not going to get a penny if you do buy this but there is going to be I believe a 300 off coupon code that's valid for two or three days max once I post this video down in the description below so check that out if you're interested what do you get with this giant big box so it's got a 2048 watt hour lithium iron phosphate battery built inside of this thing rated at up to 3 000 charge cycles once you get to 3 000 Cycles you're gonna retain 80 percent of the original battery capacity so guys you're gonna get 10 years out of use of this and a lot of people say well something's going to break on this unit before you ever get to that well Anker offers a bumper to bumper five year warranty on this power station and if you have ever heard of anchor they've been around for a long time and a lot of times warranties are only as good as the company is behind them I'm pretty sure anchor is going to be around for a while so that five year warranty should hold some Merit now this also has a 2400 watt continuous rated pure sign inverter built into it at up to 3 600 watt surge they Feature A Thing Called surge pad technology and that's basically very similar to how ecoflow does their surge inverter rating meaning that once you get over 2400 Watts this device this power station will actually lower the voltage of whatever device you're trying to power over 2400 Watts so you got to be kind of careful if you're going to go over that 2400 rated continuous Watts because your voltage will lower but it'll keep that device on so a good example of that is like a very large space heater that's going to say maybe Run 3 000 Watts once it gets over 2400 Watts it's going to lower that voltage and you'll kind of hear the difference in that space heater it's going to stay on but it's not going to have the amount of velocity coming out of that front of that space heater because the voltages drop so anchor has what they call Gan technology and to put it the simplest that I can understand it is that most power stations use a silicone-based semiconductor anchor uses what they call Gan which is gallium nitrate so basically this power station is just more efficient it's smaller it produces less heat than all of your other standard power stations I don't know all the signs behind it and I don't want to act like I do but I think some of my testing actually proves that this Gan technology built into this thing actually does work now if you want to go research Gan charging Technologies Google's your best friend and the actual build quality of this thing again is like a Sherman tank it's got a unibody design it's drop rated there's there's nothing that's going to fall off or break on this unit and it's just extremely tough I've taken this out twice with the family camping and with two kids us getting tints put up it got put to the paces dragging it through the campground and speaking of dragon it does have a really nice retractable luggage style handle so you just press a little button on the side and this thing opens up and you can actually wheel it around and it makes it so much easier and this thing pushes right back under the top deck of the power station and you really forget it's there it's not obtrusive it doesn't stick out when you're not using it so it's a really good design on that luggage handle and you kind of need it because this thing weighs 67 pounds so it's not lightweight and you're not going to be throwing it over your back and walking through the woods with it but that handle does make it easier to kind of tote around and get it to where it needs to go and the anchor also does have app connectivity so you can monitor and change a few settings via the app that I'll go over here in just a few minutes but let's take a closer look at some of these ports and then I'll get straight into the testing that I've done on this unit so the main display screen is is actually very bright and very easy to read so you're going to have an actual percentage battery monitor as well as a battery graph gauge you will have a run time to empty display and then you're going to have your input and output Watts as well as a few other displays that are not currently lit up that will show you over temperature over voltage different warnings it'll it'll eventually pop up on the screen if you get to that point but you do have down here four 120 volt AC Outlets you also have a 30 amp RV plug so this is great for if you want to hook it up to your RV or even a transfer switch and then you do have two 12 volt Style 10 amp regulated car sockets so typically most power stations only have one now I know a lot of people either love these or hate these I particularly use these a lot and I like having two of them famous anchors charging ports so you're going to get three 100 watt power deliveries these are output only you cannot charge the unit with it but you really don't need it so 100 watt output only and then two quick charge USB A's and that's essentially it for the front and then here in the back you got a flap and this is going to be where your solar input is connected you've got a circuit reset switch and then you've got your charging port to charge it up via your AC wall outlet and down here you've got your expansion battery input and I will show you folks how that works here in just a second okay so let's talk about the expansion battery now because this unit is capable of doubling its Watt hours with the Anker expansion battery and it just Nestles right on top there really is no locking feature for this expansion battery but it does fit pretty nicely and it is the same width as the actual power station so it doesn't take up a lot more room width-wise obviously height it does now when you connect this expansion battery to the Anchor you're going to get 4096 Watt hours worth of capacity now when you have this battery connected to the main unit when you charge it up the Anker 767 is always going to take priority so if both of these things are dead down to zero percent when you plug this anchor in it's going to charge this first when this is full it's going to charge the battery when you go to discharge it's going to discharge the expansion battery and then discharge the main anchor 767 and basically they do that is to make sure that this main unit always has more battery than the expansion battery and to connect these two together you have a massive super heavy duty extension cord with a Twist lock feature so you're going to pull down this flap on the expansion battery you're going to push in and it locks into place so now this cord is actually locked into plate and to disconnect it you have to twist a dial and then pull it out the bad thing about this but it's the same for any power station that has an expansion battery is this huge cord that comes out the back so you can't push it flat up against a wall you have to have about a foot worth of space to accommodate for this extension cord coming out of the back now like blue Eddies actually come out the side and I believe ecoflows come out the side so you can push them up against the wall but then you can't put anything next to it so it's a give or take but these cords do have to be very large for the amount of wattage that's going through them okay so if you can see me let me talk a little bit about the expansion battery because I know you're going to ask can you use this battery as a standalone Power Station no you can't there is no output ports on this battery station other than the connection port to connect it to the 767. so unlike the blue Eddy expansion battery packs they actually can be used as kind of of a standalone power station with their USB ports and car sock this is only good to connect to the 767. and by the way that expansion battery is 14.99 on Amazon as of today but gang that's it for all the specs on this unit let me show you all the testing that I've done and I've had this for about a month and a half now so I've used it quite a bit and I've actually taken it out twice on some camping trips but let me show you the results that I found on some of my testing so does this battery give you your money's worth meaning are you actually able to pull out the rated capacity that anchor is stating this inside this unit so to test that I hooked up an AC watt meter and I ran a load at 220 Watts using incandescent lights I let this battery station go all the way down to empty and when I came back I was able to pull out of this unit 1811 Watt hours and that basically equates to 89 to 90 efficient that's the best efficiency rating that I have ever had on any of these large power stations typically anything over 2000 Watt hours you're going to get 80 to 85 percent 90 off of 220 watt AC discharge so I wanted to also test with the expand expansion battery on it and to see how the efficiency rating would prove on that test so I hooked up the expansion battery I hooked up my watt meter I ran the same incandescent light array and I was able to get out of that AC discharge test 3700 Watt hours which also equates to around 90 efficient you can charge this unit at up to 1400 Watts that's the max amount that you can charge this unit and you can change that via the app and I'll show that to you but 1400 Watts Max is going to charge this unit to 80 percent in about an hour and a half besides AC you can charge this unit via solar also and they have supplied this xt60 kind of splitter adapter that you're going to plug into the solar input and then you've got five xt60 inputs for your solar panels now I will say that thanks to will prowse he did note that when you have this plugged in and you're running solar panels and all and you don't have all of these xd60 inputs Plugged In These are live and you could potentially be shocked if you touched these I know anchors looking at this to try to remedy it or even update the firmware but as of right now I haven't heard anything else so I don't know if I would use this at this point in time but you can get up to a thousand Watts worth of solar input on this rated from 11 to 60 volts real nice DC to xd60 charging cord that you can plug into your car or your truck or your RV and kind of charge this thing on the road add up to 10 amps now one of the other great things about this unit and I think it ties into that Gan technology is that take a look at this clip where I was charging at 1400 Watts during that charging time I pulled out my decibel meter and I was getting around 37 decibels charging at Max rate 37 decibels is whisper quiet again I don't have any other power stations that are this quiet when charging especially at Max rate so guys you could put this next to your bed and charge it 1400 watts and you literally can't really hear it it is that quiet so let's jump over to some more tests thing I did showing the inverter and its capabilities as for the inverter testing of this unit I've got a 1500 watt space heater a 500 watt space heater and I've got my multimeter hooked up so you can watch the voltage as these heaters are turned on so again this is a 2400 watt rated continuous inverter built into it and it does have a 3600 watt surge rating and they call that their surge pad technology it's very similar to like the Eco flow version to where it reduces the voltage once it gets past 2400 Watts so you have to be careful what you use once you go over 2400 Watts but it'll keep an appliance running okay we're right at around 1450 Watts jumped up to 1600 and that'll slowly come down once these coils heat up and we're still maintaining 119 volts still maintaining 119 volts 1800 watts okay we're kind of averaging around 1700 1730 Watts still maintaining 119 volts I am going to hook up a heat gun to this last outlet and try to push it up to at least 2 400 watts but that's loud but before I do that I want to show you the sine wave on this thing and that's absolutely perfectly clean energy coming out of this unit 1700 Watts now it's time for the big guy okay the fans finally did kick on we're at around 2150 Watts 119 volts 2300 Watts 118 volts okay so with the surge pad technology it is I've got this at full blast and it's really only letting me get up to around 2320 volts Max that's because it's lowering the voltage of this heat gun to allow it to keep running however again it does lower the voltage so the output's not as strong it is still hot but it's not as strong as normal what's so impressive to me is that we're still maintaining right at around 119 volts running 2300 Watts so let's check out this power station's USB ports these are rated at 100 Watts so let's make sure that they do output 100 watts into this power station so we're going to plug this in okay so I'm getting 90 Watts input into my Energizer power station and it's showing 100 Watts up here on the anchor there is some conversion loss between coming from this unit to this unit so this is a valid 100 watt USBC output so let's try another port and make sure it's maintaining okay so same deal right around 100 watts output on the anchor I'm getting 90 Watts input into the Energizer again because of the conversion loss but these USBC ports are working and outputting 100 Watts just as they should this unit does have a UPS function built inside of it at a rated less than 20 milliseconds switch over so what that means is you can keep an appliance plugged into this unit while this unit is plugged into your home outlet and in the event of a power surge or power failure this unit will actually transfer the power from the wall directly to the battery thus powering whatever Appliance you have plugged into the front and I've done this before but the best way for me to show it to you is using incandescent lights so I'm going to unplug the AC cord that I have plugged into my wall outlet and you'll see these lights flicker for a brief second three two one there you go I don't know if you can see that tiny little flicker in those lights but that is the power diverted from the wall directly into the battery then powering that so again less than 20 milliseconds on this UPS so obviously no issues with the inverter very strong performer UPS function works great and by the way I didn't mention that in the video the UPS function Powers up to 1400 Watts so the UPS function will work on an appliance up to 1400 Watts anything over that and it's not going to work so just keep that in mind so let me show you guys the app that you can download to actually connect to this unit and change a few things so when you download the app you'll have to create an account and then you're going to get to this screen and you can click on your power station and it pulls up all of the main pertinent information so right now you can see my units at 100 the internal battery temperature is 55 degrees Fahrenheit you can see your inputs your DC and your AC input if you're charging it at that time and then you've got your AC and USB and carport output display as well and you can turn on and off that 12 volt car cigarette style plug right there and it's got a power saving mode so this is an important feature I need to talk about if you have this thing turned on this unit will cut itself off after 15 minutes after it detects no load I personally have the power saving mode turned off because I don't want this unit to turn off on its own I want to be in charge of when it cuts on and off however if you're trying to run say a compressor style fridge overnight you want that power saving mode turned off because that compressor doesn't run continuously all the time and this might actually cut that fridge off if you have power saving mode on so long story short I just turned power saving mode off because I want to be in charge of when it cuts itself on or off and you can actually turn on the LED light up front via this app so you can obviously keep it off low medium and high and I will say it's a very nice LED light it's a very warm light it's not going to Blind you in the middle of the night in a dark tint so we actually did like this LED light on our 10th camping trip now you can go up here into settings and this is where you can adjust your AC charging speed so you can go from 200 Watts all the way up to 1440 watts and you can toggle on and off the SOS mode on the LED light and I don't know why any manufacturer still puts SOS modes on their LED lights because it's just a feature that you have to toggle through to get to where you want to go so I like that you can actually turn off the SOS mode you can adjust your LED screen brightness all the way from low medium high and you can cut it off as you can see here but I'll keep it on high for this video and you can adjust how long you want that screen to stay on all the way from 20 seconds up to 30 minutes there is not a indefinite feature so the longest that screen will stay on is 30 minutes you can of course rename it to whatever you want to name it you can change the temperature settings from Fahrenheit to Celsius and you can go in there and make sure that you have the latest firmware installed on this unit but that's kind of it for the app and in terms of all the features that you're going to get so that's a wrap for the anchor Powerhouse 760 seven now again this is the largest unit that they offer they do have other smaller units like the anchor 521 the 535 the 555 and the 757 so they do have quite a few models this of course being the biggest and when you add on that expansion battery they don't have anything close to this capability this thing's great the only thing it would not do was run my RV air conditioning unit off of that 30 amp Port I have a 13 500 AC unit and it just simply would not cut it on if you have an RV with a 5000 or even an 8 000 window unit this will run it just fine but that 13.5 BTU AC unit was just a little bit too much in terms of the surge startup for this thing to handle but it ran everything else on that RV absolutely just perfectly fine but that AC is just a little too big for this thing to run it as far as the performance and the build quality and the five-year warrant everything about this unit is just fantastic and I think they're really truly going to give blue Eddie and ecoflow a big run for their money if they continue to put out power stations of this quality you know competition in the marketplace is the absolute best it just gives us the best products at the best price we can get and I love that anchor is jumping into the big Power Station Market so folks again remember check out the description below because I do believe I'll have a 300 off coupon for the power station it doesn't apply to the expansion battery but you can get this with a coupon for about two or three days I believe for 16.99 which is 300 off from the MSRP folks that's my review on this anchor Powerhouse 767 thanks so much for watching and we will see you soon take care

Channel: Gear & Gadget Reviews

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Keywords: anker powerhouse 767, anker, off grid, solar, portable power station, brian waters outdoors, lifepo4

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Length: 19min 29sec (1169 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023