Van Life 101: Best Power Stations for Living in a Van 2023

everyone welcome back to my next video well I just so happened that right at this situation I'm in Pahrump Nevada a lot of I happen to have a lot of the blue Eddy products that I've tested in the past when I get a blue Eddie product and test it I can't keep them because there are too many of them so I give them away and all the people I've been giving these away to happen to be here and they allowed to they agreed to allow me to bring them all here and have them in one place so I thought I would kind of give you an overview of the blue Eddy products that I've been testing and that you might be thinking about um I don't have them all here I don't have the main one the ac200p max is the one I recommend the most I don't happen to have it here because the person I gave that one to is not in this area so it can't be here but uh I'm very impressed with these others and so we're going to talk just talk about all the blue Eddie models and we're also going to compare them to the jackery and base so even until you do not buy the jackery because in every way the blue Eddie is better I just if you can name away the blue Eddie is better and they just put out some new models first new models in years and years and it's already an antique I don't know what jackery is thinking they're going to have to get into the Modern Age they're just they're a good brand name they're make a good product so what can you say if you want to buy an antique pay full price this is the good good product okay so let's start over here uh at the small range this is the eb3a and it is the most modern you can buy it's got every feature you could want built in it's just a fantastic product I've got a review of all these so so I'm not going to go into the review but even this little tiny one has wireless charging there are no jackers with wireless charging I think that's a great feature all modern phones for higher end phones all come with wireless charging why not have it well you've got it here all of these come with it uh it's got they're just so far better uh next I have the um I gave this to a friend they happened to be here and I'm borrowing it I kept the EB 700 because I do need occasionally portable power and so it's perfect and it's got the wireless charging and it's got all the features uh Power delivery is a big one that power delivery means that the USBC ports will do something called Power delivery and they'll do 100 watt power delivery that means you can run a Macbook for example and charge it right off your USBC and you don't have to use one of your 110 now let's just go straight out of USBC well all of these have and so that is just a huge Advantage this doesn't all the old ones don't have it the very latest ones have it but they don't have two they only have one um and what none of the jackaries has and it's the single most important thing is the chemistry of the lithium ion battery so not only do these have features such as wireless charging and 100 watt uh PD Power delivery that most of the jackeries don't the very latest ones do have 100 watt pde but they're not they don't have any none of them have wireless charging lots of little features and the number quantities of outputs is lower but the most important thing of all is the chemistry so for example uh all the older all of them all the jackeries use something called lithium ion in the batteries that's fine it's good um it has it gives you this one it gives you 500 Cycles so Cycles means that it's 100 full you run it down to 20 percent then you charge it back up to 80 percent to full that's one cycle this will give you 500 times well that's if you do that every day and a lot of us do that every day that's like a year and a half and then it's life is over it's not going to die that day at 500 but it doesn't have a lot of Life past that uh and some of them do die right around 500 some go more the newers the very newest of the jackeries uh have lithium ion a lithium ion and they go up to a thousand Cycles the thousand of the cycle from 100 to 20 percent back up to a hundred percent one cycle do that a thousand times every one of these blue Eddies has life po4 far far better chemistry and they will all go up to 3 000 cycles and some of them will go up to thirty five hundred and always they say plus so you might get a little more but you'll get at least three thousand or thirty five hundred uh and so getting triple you get Triple the cycles out than any jackery you're paying the same price for a third of the life why would you even consider doing that these have all have better features Electronics moves fast and jackery moves slow blue Eddie moves super fast now of the three I have of the four I have here the eb3a that's the small one uh fairly inexpensive for most of us it's what most of you can live with in a car for example the eb-70 which is just right for um the vast majority of us above that is the ac200p and the AC 200 Max That's The Sweet Spot it's big enough not too big it's a little smaller than this one this is the AC 300 this is the brand new not even you can't even buy it when I'm shooting this in October of 2022 uh you that you won't deliver it to you if you buy it now um the AC 500 which is fantastic but it's a way more overkill for most of us The Sweet Spot of these is the ac200 max it will take 1200 watts of solar you see there are two units here I'm not I've done a review on all these I'm not going to redo the review there is no battery in this box or that box they're sitting on the battery this one the ac500 can hold six batteries go up to 18 000 Watt hours you can plug in 3 000 watts of solar into the az500 so I'm not going to go into all these details again go watch the reviews you'll get all those reviews The Sweet Spot is the ac200 max max because you can plug in one 100 watt panel or you can plug in 1200 watts of solar and it you can take it takes this is a 300 B300 battery on under both of these These are 3072 Watt hours you can combine them uh and just get a lot of battery backup uh the AC 200 Max introduced uh 30 uh 30 amp Port so you can PL you can hook this up to your RV if your RV has a 30 amp plug you can plug it right into here and just charge it and run it the whole coach right off of this unit the same with the AC 300 it has one 300 30 amp port and the blue Matty blue Eddy uh ac200p Max has 130 amp now one of the big deals about the ac500 is it has a 50 amp Port big 50 amp Port here that makes it and two 30 amp ports so your biggest RV can plug into this and you run the whole RV right off this if you need more solar it takes up to 3000 watt solar you can put put them together six of these batteries and have 18 000 Watt hours of battery you can run your whole house or your whole RV any RV off of this unit so that's this from Tiny too small to the ac200p which is The Sweet Spot in my opinion for most of us to the 300 which has a 3000 watt inverter the problem is you can't run two big items at once because the 2000 watt inverter isn't big enough so this has a 3000 watt inverter this has a 5000 watt inverter I've been running this uh blue uh this air conditioner unit off of this it runs it no problem I just finished running this for three hours and I have 1100 watts of solar coming in and after three hours it's still at 100 did not drop the battery even a little think about that you can run air conditioning unit a portable unit this is a little portable unit you just move this around your RV remove this around your cabin or your home and put it wherever you want it and keep yourself cool in any room at any time easily you can run two of these three of these off of it you're gonna need more sold uh bigger Batteries More solar so you're throwing your money away if you buy an old chemistry old features when a new Kim the best chemistry available commercially is available right here with so many more features so uh I don't I hate to see you throw your money away okay I'll stop uh now blue Eddie has never paid me a penny to say this they send me products I give them away I don't even keep them I don't own I own one because I really like the eb70 and it's useful to me to have portable but I get rid of all of them I've never been a paid a penny and I don't even keep the products my only purpose is to see you buy the right thing and that's blue Eddie okay I'll stop there uh if you've got anything out of this video Like Us on YouTube subscribe to the channel hit that thumbs up button and we'll talk to you later

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Length: 9min 47sec (587 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 22 2022