BLUETTI Solar Generator AC180 with 200W Solar Panel (Ships Separately), 1,152Wh Portable Power Station w/ 4 1,800W (2,700W Surge) AC Outlets, LFP Power for Camping, Off-grid

This thing charges very quickly when you plug in the 120v cable that comes with it. And it lasts forever. You could pull100 watts out of it continuously for ten. Hours. And there are so many outlets of every type. It is big and heavy, but I live completely off grid, and this is my principle power supply, other than a couple of generators. I. Also use my Eco, but I need to buy the EB600 battery upgrade to make it useful. That eco is even heavier duty than this, but this my primary device until I get that. Extra 600 watt hours of battery.... I have bought other devices in this size range but one would not even take a charge out of the box. This unit is by far the most capable of all my power supplies. I do use smaller ones that I charge with solar ells for charging smaller things like phones and my night lights.

I love the quality of Bluetti products. They just work! I like how this unit shows you exactly how much power is coming in, and how much power is going out. It has an easy to understand display, and the operation of the unit is simple, with 3 easy to understand buttons:- Unit ON- DC Output ON- AC Output ONThe unit charges in just a few hours when attached to home power, and should get a full charge during a day attached to the included 200W solar panel.It is important to note that in real life, you will not get 200W of charging from your solar panels! That is their theoretical limit, and any slight deviation from perfect sunlight will cause the output power to be lower. (This includes, clouds, humidity, pollution, latitude, altitude, time of year, angle of the panels)In my case, I did some tests using the included stands set to a "good" angle trying to get the sun exactly perpendicular to to the solar panels and got the following results:- Fully cloudy day with slight rain - 57 W- Clear day - 161 W(Early April, 40 degrees latitude, 4200 feet elevation)*The reason date/latitude/altitude matter is because the amount of solar power you receive is dependent on upon how much atmosphere the light must travel through, and the angle it hits from the sun (because more energy from the sun bounces off to the side, the larger the angle it hits the atmosphere. Part of why it's colder at the poles and in winter because that angle is larger.)All this to say that you shouldn't be angry and think your unit is defective if you don't get the full 200W advertised.The unit uses up to 20 W of power when turned on, for running the display/bluetooth/power conversion circuitry, so keep it off when not in use. Also, only turn on the AC/DC buttons when actually using that output, so it doesn't waste power trying to convert when nothing is using it. Thankfully, it has an auto power off function to keep from wasting power. And the display shuts off after a few seconds to preserve electricity as well.Speaking of bluetooth, the system has an accompanying app which uses bluetooth to connect your phone to the unit from up to 100 feet away. Using this, you can do 4 important things:- Check how much power is coming in and how much power is going out (on both DC and AC)- See what % of the battery is left- Turn on/off the AC and DC outputs- Turn on/off the whole unitIn short, everything you can do from the box itself can be done via the app, from the cozy comfort of your tent on a cold morning when you want to start the water boiling before you get up out of your warm sleeping bag.

Came in handy for any kind of camping, had no problem running fans all night in the tent keeping phone charged I used with my little compressor cooler to have a little fridge, also for beach days using this power bank in combination with the compressor cooler to pull out frozen popsicles and cold drinks, keeping everyone’s phone charged to keep the music going, it’s awesome. Works good on road trips - plugged right into the car no problem. I did a car camping trip across 7 states and this fits perfectly into the car and lasted for my needs, I got a solar panel to charge it that works awesome too. Even worked amazing during the last hurricane we had, I took it to my grandma so she could keep her phone charged to contact us but also to pass the time playing FarmVille lol, run a fan all night for almost a week straight till she got the power back on in her area. If bluetti ever decides to send free ones out I’ll take one lol, I have this one and the Eb3a both are great no problems going strong, I’m currently trying to saving up for a bigger one. These are definitely quality and come in so many uses.

Works great for running fridge, microwave, tv during power outage. WH capacity is enough to run a big fridge for couple hours, and peak W enough to run a microwave oven. Weight is low enough that one person can lug it around (carefully). Charges fast on AC input. Phone app is nice. Sometimes wished it had 5521 DC outputs like other models.