iMontek x1200 & Renogy N Type Topcon 400W Solar Panel Blanket Review #wisebuyreviews

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Transcript

00:00welcome guys to my quick unboxing quick review of this solar generator um

00:08i had this in the box for a little while until i had a reason to test it out so this is what comes

00:13in the box for it so it comes with this kind of cable for the solar generator so that's an aviation

00:21plug it looks like sp21 and this is the kind of solar connector that it has okay so it does come

00:31with solar connector it comes with a cigarette plug connector and it comes with a nice heavy duty

00:40ac plug okay so that's the power cables that it comes with so now let me pull it out of the

00:46the box and then we're going to quickly check it out okay so that's the manual quickly go through it

01:00it looks like it has oh

01:05the screen under the front over here battery connector dcn okay

01:10so ac input it could do 1200 watts pv dc input is about 1200 watts 20 amps max so in order to get

01:2720 uh 1200 watts you would need 60 volts minimum at 20 amps here

01:34ups function it could do 1400 watts continuous which is cool um i do like that it has multiple usbc ports

01:51a lot of ac ports

01:52tft display screen i got the 1.2 kilowatt unit because this seems like something you could throw

02:05in the car and i think it has a 2000 watt inverter and what i also liked about this unit is that it

02:13allows you to turn off the wi-fi bluetooth based on the review that i've watched so that's the reason

02:18why i got this is because i i plan to also use this with um for a 48 volt battery pack like a standard

02:28maybe like a car battery pack uh not a car uh a 48 volt battery and what's cool about that is that

02:40even if you have a 48 volt battery you still need to get an mppt controller you need a an inverter you

02:47need to wire the stuff up with this guy apparently you could just probably get this plug and plug in

02:54a 48 volt battery into it and expand its capacity to whatever amount it is also what what i like about

03:01it is that you can actually charge up the battery on the inside in the battery pack from a 12 volt source

03:08up to 20 amps so up to 20 amps at 12 volts is like 240 watts better than

03:18will it even do 20 amps i don't know we're gonna have to see

03:25so you could get the app

03:30settings how to do the settings

03:38utl

03:42so for me i'm like a 12 volt guy i like my 12 volts but i didn't want to be limited by the 12 volts

03:50and the limitation with having a 48 volt system is that you can't really charge it well with a 12

03:55volt battery and that's the benefit of having solar generators is because they're able to accept 12 volt

04:02inputs so you could technically charge this off your car's cigarette plug lighter

04:09um i got a feeling that if you give it 10 12 volts it's probably going to limit the amperage so that

04:18needs to get tested so otherwise um let's also unpack the solar panel that we're going to test it out with

04:27i bought a 400 watt solar panel and i figured it's a nice sunny day to test it out with that because

04:33uh the 48 volt sorry the 400 watt solar panel is i think a 36 volt panel so i can't use it with a

04:42smaller solar generator and i didn't have a solar generator that i could actually pick up oh even

04:48though it's heavy um and carry outside you know in a convenient way more or less um to test it out

04:56with so i'm finally getting around to testing it out and i hope you are finding this useful links are

05:02below so comment subscribe uh and like the video so let's uh check out also the solar panel we're gonna

05:10do let's unbox that and the next thing we're gonna unbox is this renergy portable solar blanket

05:16i watched the video review of it so what was interested me in this blanket is that it uses the

05:23newest solar panel technology called n-type or uh yeah n-type um so long story short it folds neatly in

05:37it this is actually a smaller size than a 200 watt panel and i'm going to afterwards show you what it

05:44it is compared to in size to a 200 watt panel so that we could kind of compare it in measurements

05:52this thing is compact i'm really liking this um let me get the plastic off and let's put a 200 watt

06:00panel right underneath it okay bung this guy pops out it comes with a pretty decently long cable

06:14and a shoulder strap carrying thing which is cool that attaches i guess to somewhere here maybe over here

06:24over here i'm gonna have to figure that out i do like the pouch and here's the information written

06:33on there i do like it when they write things down on it and now let's take a quick look at the manual

06:41i hope you guys appreciate the the way that i'm doing the unboxings because everybody is just like

06:46shows clips of themselves talking and um even though i do like it when people are something about copyright

06:54i don't know about copyright we're doing the instructions for reading the information how to

07:01charge the battery

07:02so does that say output so it looks like it might have usb ports on it

07:19huh i don't see any usb ports

07:22okay so we got another shoulder strap

07:30so we have an e-warranty card register for the warranty online i might need to do that

07:41okay so let's see so here's the dimensions

07:47um unfolded it's 61 by 31.

07:54no i think that oh that's huh is that the right size probably is okay

08:04so it's 400 watts connected to your solar generator so i have this cable over here connected right here

08:12the red to the red so it's correct polarity how to charge the battery

08:24you could put two of these together if you want technically you could i think the montec

08:29can do up to 120 volts so technically you could have the montec and these two and you would have 800 watts portable which is kind of cool

08:36and now it's in german okay so most important information written here

08:45i'm going to throw this in here and i'm going to take this cable the montec cable and put it in there

08:52so we could test out the solar panel with the brand new solar generator

08:57and which i could actually carry on both arms

09:00so this in here so that it doesn't get separated and um we shall see what kind of power output it

09:08does it might be a little bit overcast right now we shall see so we're going to go outside now and check

09:14it out so i gave the information on the folded dimensions um so the carrying strap i'm not sure

09:23where it attaches maybe you attach it of course here or like this or maybe there's a carrying strap here

09:29strap here strap here okay um so perhaps the carrying strap attaches right here

09:36to give you a nice shoulder bag feel so why don't i do that why don't i attach the carrying strap

09:43because i'm going to need to carry it right

09:48so the carrying handle makes it very convenient to carry around i like that

09:52so this is the comparison of it to a blue eddy 200 watt solar panel yes the 200 watt solar panel is

10:04flatter but this is smaller in overall size and it's double the power capacity yes the blue eddy has

10:12the legs but this one just lays flat on the floor that's why it's called a solar blanket it doesn't

10:17have the kickstands and perhaps that allows it to actually save some extra bulk and some weight

10:24uh in order to uh be able to carry it so so far initial build quality i'm very much impressed

10:32to fit so much solar panel of 400 watts in it and that's the reason why i actually got this is to

10:38possibly put this in my car with the montauk power station so that if i wanted to travel and

10:45uh connect some solar i do like the idea of being able to get three or four hundred watts out of it

10:51easily so this this looks like a really nice solution and throwing this in the back back of

10:59the car uh it's not going to take up that much space and obviously it's going to do a lot more power

11:05than a 200 watt solar panel does this 200 watt solar panel does maximum about 150 watts output so i'm

11:13expecting it to do between 250 and 300 maybe so we're gonna have to see we're gonna have to see

11:19like uh what it's gonna do um and then we're gonna see how the power station turns on for the first time

11:25so that's the kind of interesting thing uh so i'm not paid or sponsored i'm just like a guy that

11:30watches youtube channels and watches cool videos and when somebody has a cool product uh that i think

11:37is nice that could benefit my life i do buy it and i have specific reasons for it like with the power

11:42station being able to connect to a 48 volt system i do have 12 volt things so what i do like about it

11:48is that to be able to connect it maybe to 12 volt batteries that i would charge up with solar to have

11:54an infinite power bank to have a constantly charge up and use it as an inverter because an inverter still

12:01costs money you know a 4001 inverter is 350 dollars i paid at the montauk website i think 650 there was no

12:09sales tax on the renergy's website there was sales tax this one was i think 20 or 30 cheaper at the

12:16website rather than buying on amazon but the links are to amazon but if you want to get it at their

12:23websites you might want to check it out too because you might be able to save some sales tax doing it

12:28that way just being upfront with you um i do get commissions from amazon so um but otherwise i paid

12:37for the stuff myself and now we get to test it out i'm excited how about you thumb up and subscribe

12:44okay so now i just unclasped this and now it's unfolding out like that

13:02okay

13:06i think maybe i should have pulled out the cable

13:09okay that looks kind of cool interesting so initial thoughts i do like these um hooks over here

13:21to attach it to carabiners uh to be able to look at it all from all directions which is really cool

13:29so now let me connect it to the solar generator and see what kind of power we could generate

13:34it's a little bit hazy but i would say it's pretty decent sunlight

13:39so the cord is decently long that's about 10 feet it says here nine but the cord is a little bit

13:46kind of like there so a 10 foot cord that's pretty decent so this allows you to put your power station

13:53a little bit out of the way this is what it looks like folded up partially and now we're going to

13:59connect it to the montauk let's quickly take a look at the montauk and explore what the options are

14:05so external battery over here dc in over here

14:14what does it say so 12 volt 30 amp

14:19okay

14:22am i breaking something i i don't want to be breaking something so it looks like the power button over here

14:28nothing is on the back

14:38and ac is okay so it looks like the acs might be on the left and the right side so let me get this guy

14:44connected and then we'll see what it looks like afterwards so montauk if you're watching this

14:51perhaps one of the suggestions that i might make is if you made the housing on the outside white

15:00because i think if you left it in the sun the the dark housing is actually going to attract a lot more

15:08heat to it than possibly is necessary um but overall i'm very much impressed with the build quality so now

15:16let's get the power connected oh and let's see the power cable

15:22the power cable that comes with the montauk from nine feet so it's about four feet long

15:30four to five feet something like that maybe five feet so five feet plus that so we got 15 feet so

15:38technically i would be able to put this out of the sun and stuff like that but you see in this situation

15:44that could kind of heat it up if they would actually make it like white or maybe camouflage

15:49color but that looks kind of nice the two of them are looking nice together based on the first initial

15:55things guys this is like a review we're completely unscripted i'm just like a guy opening up a cool

16:02present from uh santa so or actually from from god you know that i appreciate but let's just say it's

16:09christmas and i'm opening up again so let's see what it looks like getting the power in

16:16okay so i do what what i do like about the montauk is this design where everything is kind of like

16:25all the ports are covered up so can we put it in the correct in the correct way it looks like it goes

16:32only one way in so let's see so this way what about this way would it go would it go in no it would

16:42only go in one way so this aviation style plug it looks like it only lets it go in one way which is

16:50really good you can't really mess it up or i hope not

17:01okay so the power is not on yet because we have the solar panel covered up 100 percent

17:08and we have some poop over here nice thank you for leaving thank you for not curbing your dog

17:14oh man whatever what are you gonna do okay so now let's see

17:27let's see what power it is getting

17:29298 watts

17:44so 31 volts it came with six percent charge okay that's cool

17:53i really like this design over here where they put all the information about it

18:02so this guy is actually 38 pounds i was i was thinking it was a little heavy

18:08so aviation socket 13.8

18:11ah okay so the 12 12 volt cigarette port is on this side let's just take a look at all these different

18:27things so okay no that's a 12 volt 30 amp aviation okay

18:41so the screwing back in okay so that's good so open it you pull this down okay so i was breaking it to open it

18:58okay so here's the ports ac power in so we have high power sockets over here

19:1012 volt times 10 amps 12 volt 15 amps so that's really cool uh you could charge a laptop with each

19:21one of these and these and that okay that's pretty decent so what other information are we looking at

19:29okay so 12 volt so we have one on the side 30 amps that's really nice

19:37so it really helps you use uh 12 volt systems the six socket is 13.8 volt it looks like regulated

19:48so 13.8 volt is might be a little bit high for certain things but for other things it's fantastic

19:55um so two times 24 watts so it does even 12 volt 2 amps so it looks like a quick charge port

20:07so 265 watt usbc is one dc input 12 to 150 volts i gotta hand it to these guys creating a 150 volt input

20:18is really nice uh let's see what power it's getting now 291 the sun is like that in the sky

20:29so it gives you the time that it's on okay let's see i'm pressing this power button over here

20:42and i'm not getting any anything on the screen from the uh power inverter

20:57so let's take a quick quick look at the solar panel so the solar panel is the n-type technology

21:03which is i think 25 efficiency that's the highest efficiency possible i do like the setup over here

21:14where it is in a lot of multiple squares so possibly that might help with the efficiency

21:20also what i like is that you're not worried about it blowing away so i have a couple other 400 watt panels

21:28and um they're so heavy to carry around and they take up so much space um the compact design where

21:40it all folds up where it looks like one two three four 16 squares 16 little into 16 little squares with

21:49a little carrying handle um i actually didn't notice the weight of the solar panel uh because of the

21:57heaviness of this guy okay 288 watts that's definitely really nice i think this input if you can see uh is

22:11really decent i do like being able to close this up it looks like when you're gonna be like if you're

22:17charging it with ac uh probably the the fans kick in this gray color is actually pretty cool i like it

22:27that snaps right in let's see what the external battery thing looks like

22:36so that's the external battery port um

22:42so there was a guy on youtube i watched that

22:48connected this to an external battery but my question is how did he do it

22:54did he buy the montauk batteries i'm not sure um put your comments down below what kind of like

23:02a plug is this i should probably go on the montauk.com website and get some of their cables to be able to

23:09use your own external 48 volt battery or maybe i would just buy the montauk battery because that sounds like

23:16um it might be the better working idea

23:27so let's see

23:30interesting

23:31so this is like a hollow space over here why would they leave empty space here and ac out

23:48i don't know what what this there was no cable coming for that so it's a 2001 inverter

23:56and i'm not seeing any anything on the screen pressing the this button

24:11or chances are what might be happening is that because it's below 10 percent

24:16there might be a setting for it not to chart like not to um work

24:28okay so now i turned it on and now we're getting a 12 volt zero watt we're getting a usb

24:38so this guy on the right turn does turn something on and off okay so we got the 12 volts working

24:46okay so it looks like uh the ac

24:58maybe below 10 percent isn't working all right there's probably a power level that you need to

25:04reach in order for the ac to work um feel it was a little bit hollow on the inside i'm just wondering

25:10what this spacing is for maybe okay so it looks like the fan blows through here

25:22and the actual battery pack may be somewhere probably here

25:32okay full charge and discharge the battery at least once every three months to maintain battery health

25:37that's interesting do not disassemble keep away from high temperature do not expose unit to direct sunlight

25:47never just store the product below 32 fahrenheit

25:51okay interesting battery type is pouch lfp lithium iron phosphate

26:01that this this this whole discharging and uh at least once every three months fully charge and discharge

26:12is an interesting thing so we're at nine percent does the inverter turn on yet no it doesn't turn on yet

26:20there's probably a setting you got to do in order for it to turn on

26:23so let's do the satisfying peel

26:28okay that's kind of cool

26:35i do like the convenience of this because of this form factor of it being a suitcase you could have it

26:43stored in your back seat and it's not taking up the size of a full-sized

26:49uh you know a 2000 watt solar generator would probably come up to out here

26:56so that's the idea that's why i got this version the 1200 watt one because i figured it could be lighter to carry

27:06um and it was much cheaper i think the 1200 watt version

27:12as i told you 650 at the website with no sales tax and the 2000 watt version was like 950

27:22i just bought this as a head unit to be able to connect my own um to be able to connect my own

27:30my own 48 volt batteries to it without having to buy their official montauk rated ones

27:49so we shall see guys i apologize in advance if like this video is not fully kind of like featured with all

27:57the uh cool tests watch the other guys videos for it this is why i watch a lot of different reviews about the stuff

28:07sp 121 uh to really figure out the things okay so at 10 does it turn on

28:16maybe i gotta connect ac to it charge it up that way so it looks like there is a way to get into the settings

28:36maybe i'm supposed to go to press on the side on this side the switches work

28:46okay now does the touch is there is this a touch screen no oh

28:55you're not supposed to disassemble the unit

28:57okay i don't see any uh kind of like buttons to change things around how to

29:17oh we got ac output working

29:20okay okay so the ac output turns on at 10 percent so i guess it comes right out of the box

29:29to turn on the 10 percent oh i remember one of the one of the reasons i got this unit

29:35was you could program it to turn on at a specific

29:42um percentage rate like you could make it turn on ac at 10 percent

29:47or dc at 10 percent or 20 percent things like this

29:54okay so the ac does work oh these buttons feel really nice

30:02you hear a nice satisfying click with the ac output

30:08i'm sure that i'm sure the ac works perfectly i'm just not going to bother with that

30:12but for me i'm liking the idea of using it as um usb c source as a nice portable 12 volt um

30:24okay so it is a working unit let's see what about the dimensions oh the dimensions are given here

30:31the dimensions are 20 inches by 15.7 so it looks like 20 inches this way

30:37so 20 inches this way by 15.7 by 5.2 no let's let's just re-measure it i mean we have the measuring tape

30:50right here so that's correct about the 20 inches uh let's see that's correct about the 15.7

31:00and that's correct i think about the six inches this way okay that's reasonable size so it's 38 pounds

31:14we already saw the differences there i'm liking the really nice input with this solar panel

31:22and now let's get to the conclusions over here okay so the two solar panels together

31:35are actually really decent decent buy so i was able to carry it from indoors to the outdoors with the

31:45really easy to carry handles i do like the easy foldability let's see for example

31:52what is the partial rating so let's say half of the solar panel got you know whatever shaded up

31:59with half the solar panel shaded up it looks like it's getting zero watts

32:05interesting so it looks like this half and half is in series somehow now let's see if we fold it up like

32:14this what is the partial shading test with this

32:19so partial shading it partially shaded so it's getting 124 i don't know if you guys could see 128

32:31with the solar panel half shaded okay

32:36so half shaded it gets half the power but it can't be shaded this way so it looks like maybe

32:45so this way and this way these are parallel somehow so one direction it could get better shading

32:56tolerance another direction it could get lesser shading tolerance the fuel quality of this is nice i think

33:05it's etfe oh and i think this is also a 16 bus bar design the 16 bus bar is that these little

33:14connectors over here they're closer together and you get more of them supposedly that increases efficiency

33:20it looks like it actually increases it pretty well so portability wise i think that's really decent so

33:29it's getting 280 watts right now portability wise this is fantastic um thinking about putting four solar

33:40panels inside your car or two of those 200 watt solar panels that you saw earlier in the video uh take up

33:49probably twice as much room and are harder to carry than this one 400 watt i would go with this one any day

33:57okay now for the montauk power station i'm not sure if there's wi-fi or wireless on it or stuff like that

34:07uh perhaps maybe the guy that was watching the video uh making the video he had a version that had

34:15wireless on it or maybe there is wireless i just i just don't know like is there a screen how to set it

34:23up stuff like that watch their videos from the initial impressions i think this is a very sturdy

34:31built uh thing this guy and this guy together i think are a match made in heaven um the compactness

34:39of it i think you could put it between the two seats in the back seat like if let's say if you have an

34:44suv or in the trunk where it's not going to take up too much space where you could fit other uh gear

34:52and this one

34:55if you put two of these solar panels together so since each one of them is about 30 volts

35:02you could technically get two of these solar panels and get 60 volts if you put them in series

35:09so 280 and 280 you could get 560 watts into this without an issue and it has i think a 1200 watt limit

35:18so really great in the limit up to 150 volts so with 150 volts technically you could do

35:29four of these

35:33if that's a 39 volt that might be too much but you could technically put three of these get three of

35:40these solar panels which would fit in the trunk of your car

35:47and you could tie them down with carabiners so the possibility is let's say a chain link fence like

35:55that if you had a chain link fence you could stretch it out with carabiners and maybe get even better

36:02sunlight onto it i'm not gonna do that now because i didn't bring any carabiners um so that's the

36:09possibility with the carabiners also maybe if you take carabiners and bungee cords or bungee cords to

36:18carabiners long story short you could probably hang it off a tree and there's a million and one different

36:24ways to route it uh possibly you could put it across your car across the hood of your car or across the

36:32back of your car and with it laying flat like this you don't have to worry about it falling away that's

36:39the thing about solar panels where you have the big floppy um legs on a solar panel they take up a lot of

36:47room and the solar panel is not that stable on the thing yes you might get slightly more power but how

36:55much how much more power not that much more power for example i have an n-type solar panel that i the

37:03sokyo vola a 200 watt sokyo vola solar panel was generating about 160 watts facing at a perfect angle to

37:15the sun right 160 and that's a 200 watt so two sokyo volas would be 320 watts so they're twice as hard

37:28to carry around because you have to carry around the two they don't have the shoulder strap they're

37:32heavier they're tougher to set up and to get that angle and all that for a 40 watt difference

37:40and with these solar panels you could fit a lot more into your car so if you're traveling i mean

37:49the ultimate setup would be probably three of these solar panels and with the 10 foot extension cord

37:57you could put them in series so make it uh let's say 30 volt 60 90 volts and you could have 12 100

38:07watts of solar total and getting 280 watts into your bank so technically you could triple that to about

38:17900 watts in a portable package technically which you could carry to your campsite

38:25so you could technically cook directly from the sun without an issue

38:30you um so what i recommended to you guys i would say astoundingly yes this is really cool this is

38:41really good brand new panel technology the build quality is nice i think also it's a waterproof uh ip

38:51something with the with this cord i mean you could always get an extension cord uh 50 feet 100 feet 30 feet

38:59however you need from the campsite or like the more expensive thing like the solar generator you might

39:04put it on the inside um that's pretty decent i do like the idea that you could charge it off the solar

39:14generator and you could charge it off ac at the same time so that's kind of cool at up to 1400 watts

39:22so you could technically fast charge this in about an hour at the 280 watt rating of the solar panel

39:32280 so let's say 300 watts you could charge this in a five hour time period that's one of those things

39:40is that in a sunny day usually you get five hours of sun so one 400 watt panel like this

39:47four hours in the five hours in the sun you got it recharged i do like that you could do the

39:53expansion batteries i wish the uh connector maybe was not proprietary maybe it's not maybe this is

40:00because this is my first solar generator with the aviation style plugs i might actually fall in love

40:06with those because it's designed to be kind of like waterproof and also idiot proof so you can't

40:13put the cord in the wrong way and stuff like that which is cool interesting that there's also an

40:18aviation plug for ac so that probably means that you can connect ac power outwards and maybe have an

40:29aviation plug to something that is a hardwired plug uh to let's say a coffee maker or something like that

40:36so you might have this closed up and have that connected i do like the the power buttons over

40:44here being able to turn the ac on and off very easily and to turn the usb ports on and off that

40:53is nice that tactile feel of that button is really phenomenal it has also a blue ring around it to see that

41:01it's actually on now ac doesn't seem to be turning on at this second or does this oh this hat might

41:12have to be one for the ac to be on okay so if you press this one on so after you press this one on the

41:19right on if you press the power button on the right it turns off the ac on the left too and if you just

41:27press the ac by itself it doesn't turn on you have to press the power button on the right in order for

41:33the ac to work on the left okay interesting it has also the version of the montauk software

41:40um i guess i have to install the app uh i montac app and then maybe you see what it looks like

41:51is it broadcasting your signal right now there is no like bluetooth or wi-fi or wireless thing here

41:57i don't know if that needs to be enabled or something like that maybe it's doing it by default

42:04uh in the video where the guy was doing the settings he actually

42:10um pressed the settings on the screen maybe he had a touch screen version or something like that

42:17so maybe i should try getting an app for it

42:20it looks like folding it up is pretty intuitive so as we opened it up from the inside like that

42:30it looks like boom and we fold these guys onto the inside then we fold this guy to the inside here

42:37and then we fold this guy over like that and then this guy gets folded over like that maybe

42:47hmm interesting i'll have to figure it out but it looks simple enough you do it once or twice you're

42:52gonna be able to really get this compact size down um the video might be ending here

43:05guys um tell me what you guys think below uh what about the compactness of the design of this setup

43:12perhaps maybe the ultimate setup is this guy with three solar panels and maybe a 48 volt bank uh that

43:20you charge from this one because it does have a 30 um 30 amp aviation plug so technically you could

43:29send it and charge another solar generator from this one using dc to dc

43:34um and use this kind of like as an appt controller an appt controller would cost money and to wire it

43:44all up and you make it all a package like this it's kind of nice um perhaps maybe the next step of the

43:52test is to connect it to the ac electricity see how it charges up with the ac electricity and see if

43:58there's any uh crazy fans going on here i actually this guy maybe with the background noise uh charging

44:06from the sun i haven't heard any anything from it so maybe there was fans blowing but there's too many

44:12cars and things like this that i couldn't specifically hear any noise coming out of this unit

44:19the power buttons i'm just in love with that power buttons where you just simply click the screen just

44:26turns off very intuitive they made this kind of like the designer of this montec i montec i think is

44:35a very brilliant genius i would like to shake their hand and tell them thank you for making a power

44:42station that is reasonably easy to do i'm gonna have to go on their website to see how easy it is to get

44:50the cords um or if maybe on the manual there's the specific part number to order from amazon of the

44:59different aviation style cords that are available for this unit because um you know there was not

45:06all of the cords included like the ac cord like that one for the dc is not included there

45:13um hmm interesting so this is the video i watched right here this is the video i watched you know

45:25that made me want to buy this you see this setup over here of this guy i got this cable connected a

45:34power switch and was he able to connect it to a 48 volt battery i have the montec x 1200 and this

45:43is the first power station that i've tested that allows you to use a standalone 48 volt battery as

45:48a full function expansion battery so it's actually very amazing feature 12 uses any 48 volt lfp battery

45:56so he didn't link me to this adapter where i get this adapter i'm gonna have to check the box again but

46:03i don't think that's in part of the box i don't think this company actually really intended for you to

46:07use it this way um what is this adapter i wish he would have put it that i could buy it simple you

46:16take any 48 volt battery connect it up with this adapter cable and then both the power station and

46:21the battery will charge and discharge together and you get the added capacity there's no extra work needed

46:27you don't need any external chargers everything so that's really cool so for me i see the montec as a

46:35head unit that you could use for the mppt controller because it takes up to the 150 volts

46:42and maybe have a bank of these but with these you would need a power supply anyway and with this guy

46:48has all these usbc ports and stuff like that um that's kind of cool that you don't need to be

46:54limited by that and the 1200 watts input is actually pretty decent so that's a 20 amp functions as one unit

47:02when they are connected together now here in a couple minutes i will demonstrate how much capacity

47:07you can get as you discharge both the power station so it looks like this is a it's a 1200 watt unit

47:13and uh a 5000 watt unit together so that's the points that i wanted to point out regarding why i got

47:21this is because i like the idea of being able to use a 48 volt battery and uh use all those um

47:3012 volt ports that it has and all those usbc ports because a lot of things you could do with usbc

47:37whether you need 12 volts or whether you need 20 volts for your laptop something like that you are

47:43you got all your bases covered that's where i i don't really appreciate um anchor anchor power stations

47:51all they have is ac plugs so that's not a very efficient thing so reading the manual over here

47:59uh it says that if you have the dc power the idle power draw is about 2.5 watts in this unit that's

48:082.5 watts if you press that right button to just power on the dc ports uh the idle power consumption of

48:15the ac inverter on it is 20 watts an hour so that's 240 watts in a day so that's where it's nice where

48:25if you if you're using dc that's the most efficient way to actually get the power out because you're not

48:31wasting that extra 20 watts energy uh converting from dc to ac and then there there's a conversion

48:39loss of a power brick you would connect there anyway that connects the ac to dc so uh it's 30

48:46more efficient i think about to use uh use the dc ports on the right side uh of this unit and um the

48:57the little circle on the back where you connect ac is that you could put two of these units together

49:04to get 240 volt split phase output also in order to change settings you need to connect it to an ac

49:13power outlet so you connect it on the right side the ac plug um and then you have to make sure the

49:21power button is off like the the power switch on the right is off and there's no like usb and dc stuff

49:27on here and then you hold on the left side the dc button for 10 seconds to to get to the menu changing

49:35screen and then you hold it for like two seconds to switch between the settings and for one second

49:42to change the setting inside the setting or something like that um i'm gonna have to get into

49:46that screen and there i think you have cool things that this unit has that other units don't have

49:53for example you could have it automatically turn on the ac port after it charges up to 20 so chances

50:00are if it runs out of energy you don't want it to be kind of like running out of energy and then

50:04crashing running out of energy and crashing and always staying in 10 you could tell it to charge

50:08up to like let's say 20 before it turns on ac power automatically other power stations don't let

50:15you do that they don't let they don't let the power turn on automatically watch this guy's video and

50:20this is the reason one of the reasons i bought this i'm like that's kind of cool like because i'm

50:24a 12 volt guy usually i'm like that's cool i have all these 12 volt systems but then i figured if i

50:30wanted to be able to use 48 volts i could by plugging in an extra battery this way i just got to figure out

50:36this this cable what is this cable where can i get one so it just sounds like an aviation style cable

50:43and i'm gonna have to search around amazon i wish uh guys like this just told us what it is or showed

50:50it on video what specifically the part number is because that's the idea with my with my videos is

50:55that i give a link so i do get a kickback in case you guys need the cable anyway um if i let's say

51:02linked it and he could have made a commission off it because he does send you a link to the amazon by

51:07the way right now at the making of this video the unit is sold out on the website and on amazon so

51:14uh that's a really cool thing you could also i think have it turn on the dc power after like say

51:1910 or 20 charge and you could turn the bluetooth wi-fi functionality on and off so i think that's

51:26kind of cool because sometimes you're not if you're not a bluetooth user and you're never going to use

51:32that why are you going to have that on and drawing extra power to be able to use your app so probably

51:39the app features i'm going to skip right now i'm going to plug it into the ac power and see what

51:44kind of settings i could get into in order for us to complete the making of this video uh but this is

51:51definitely a changing uh a life-changing thing oh and if you're using the car plug adapter is designed

52:01or out of the box to run at eight amps or basically a hundred watts because otherwise it would blow the

52:09fuse in your car anyway technically you could probably get into the setting and make it actually

52:13run at the 20 amps because the charge controller can accept up to 20 amps so i might set it to the 20 amps

52:20and now i have a unit that can convert a 12 volt battery power to a 48 volt so i could technically with

52:27a 28 volt if i take 12 volts times 20 amps i could get like 240 watts and let's say i connected a battery

52:35pack like this i can convert 12 volt into 48 volt power using this as a head unit and then i could also

52:43use that power to power other devices and technically have a 240 watt volt interlink 240 watt interlink between

52:53this unit and that if i can get into the settings and change that other power stations i don't think

52:58let you do that so i think uh before ending the video i'm gonna need to get into the settings there

53:04and then we could play around with those to kind of see that i do recommend watching this guy's video

53:09because he made a phenomenal video about this and i just watched this one video about this and this is

53:16the only one in my playlist i bought the unit right away i thought the price was very reasonable at

53:20six hundred fifty dollars that i bought it for so now let's uh get this plugged into ac power

53:27see the speed that it's charging at and then also get into the menu

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