Hi! Did you try to connect to AC200L one B300 and B300S together? In our country the B300S much cheaper than the B300. So it is interesting how AC200L will proceed with B300+B300S together
I have 2 Bluetti AC200P battery packs. One is fed with 600w of solar panels and the other is fed with 400w of solar panels. I have my full size whirlpool side by side refrigerator/freezer/ice maker, box freezer, Wi-Fi router, entertainment center with 55" flat screen TV and a receiver with 7.1 surround sound, my CPAP breathing machine, and a heavy duty fan that draws around 160w during use, all connected full time while the batteries are being charged and they won't reach 0% unless it's really overcast outside. I have been using this system full time for nearly 4 years with no issues. My only question is how do I set up a quick change control box that switches from battery to grid power usage. It requires being able to read the battery charge level, where in other situations the battery bank has a positive and negative where you run a wire from each to the switch control box. I can't figure out how to wire from the Bluetti system to the switch box with a positive and negative wire slowing the switch box to know the charge level ( I can set it to switch automatically to grid power when my Bluetti power bank reaches 5% so it never fully drains the battery to 0% and I never lose power. Hopefully someone understands what I'm saying and they can tell me how to wire from the Bluetti system showing charge level.
My problem with my AC200L is hooking up my Honda Inverter 2800i generator to charge the battey. When i hook up my transfet switch cable to the TT-30 outlet, it locks up the whole thing. I can only seem to do pass through charging using the 120 volt plugs. Is it supposed to be that way, tried different settings in the app. So I cannot seem to charge the AC200L while using the TT-30 jack to power the transfer switch.
Thank you Jeff. Excellent in depth review. I always look forward to your reviews on new and existing products. I look forward to your extended testing on most of these units.
Other than 100(ish) watts of input power, what would be the downfall of merely running a 12.8v lifepo4 battery into the solar input of the power station? I get that the power transfer would be slower, the battery would be a bunch less $$$ however is my thinking ?
When using 2 B300 batteries with the AC300 Bluettie does not recommend adding one B300 at time, but rather if using 2. Do you know is it the same with this new tech mix and match of the B300K. Can you add just one when already using 2 B300's best to use 2 B300K's same as with B300? And did they tell you if it is still possible to connect the two heads to get split phase 240V when using 2 AC300 inverters, one with 2 B300ks and 1 with the older 2 B300
I have the bluetti AC 200 Max with two b 230 batteries for a couple of years now. Works pretty well with a couple of problems. Problem number one the Bluetooth only works part of the time. I have to reboot the entire system to get it to work again and then it fails after a few hours. Second problem is that I can no longer turn on AC output through the touch screen. Clicking AC on does nothing on the touch screen. I can only turn it on through Bluetooth which comes like I said, only works part of the time. If Bluetooth fails the system will be dead in the water. I contacted customer service and their recommendation was to ship it back to them and they would " take a look ". As long ago disposed of my boxes and have no packaging in which to ship the unit back so I'm living with The issues for now.
My AC200MAX had the same touch screen problem, contacted them through Facebook, had a new firmware within a day or two and a working AC200MAX once it was installed.
Thank you for including (verifying) that the B210 battery(s) do in fact connect and function properly with the AC200Max (with the adapter cable). Your knowledge, reliability and expertise are invaluable!
Jeff's reviews are my favorite. Love his detail and insight. Thank you Jeff. At the end he made a chart of which battery combos work w/ each head unit. Extremely hel pful!
If the BMS were to have an error, how would the user know this ? Does the B300k have any way of directly interfacing with the app to be able to view any errors that may occur ? Or would the B300k have to be plugged into a head unit of one of the Bluetti Powerstations and the BMS error information would have to be accessed through the head unit (either via on screen display or app) ?
I enjoyed the video it was very informative. I have an AC180 and I before I bought it I looked everywhere to see if I could change the amp input or the watt input as to not overload my grid and all I could find was turn it to silent mode. Well that didn’t work cause the moment I plugged it in to AC it started working as a UPS and silent mode only worked when nothing was being drawn from the unit. I’m in contact with Bluetti to see if they can update their firmware or their app to include the feature the AC200L has with regard to lowering the amp input. The only solution I have is to get one of the AC adapters Bluetti sells like the T200S, T400, or the T500 yet it’ll always run on battery to my understanding and not in UPS but until I can test it I won’t know for sure. I still have time to return the AC180 and acquire a AC200L yet the price difference is kinda huge. I got the AC180 on prime day for $499 and the AC200L is $1399 as of late August 2024. AC adapter cost about $129 for the T200S and $149 for the T500. The T400 is no where to be found in the U.S. I do like that the AC200L is roughly about the same footprint as the AC180 yet almost twice the batter capacity.
Very Informative video thank you. I agree that Bluetti needed to find a way to reduce the price of the expansion batteries so in that way this could be good news. It is a shame because Bluetti had the best expansion batteries with the most independence from head units and now this is just a dumb expansion battery like Ecoflow batteries. The better expansion batteries were a main reason I chose Bluetti. As the cables already exist for this interface there would be no cable development costs for power bank mode which makes me think they have decided to save money on the circuitry or that these are going to be very competitively priced, and they only want to sell them to people who own head units and not for people who want to use them as power banks. I think they missed an opportunity to not have better compatibility out of the box with different power stations and any battery being released now should support their existing and planned balcony system which this doesn’t seem to. This battery should be cable less and you choose the cable at time of order because it is ridiculous to buy this for an AC500 and then have a redundant cable and need to spend an additional £100 on a compatible cable.
I had to laugh a bit at minute 5:01 "there are five lights"... Because it reminded me of the question of an interrogater who asked his prisoner:"How many lights do see?" And the answer should be five , although there are only four lights visible...who recognize this scene?😊 😊
Great review. I might have missed it, but I do not think you mentioned if it has a built in heater for the battery or not. I want to say the b300s has one. If I was going to get a ac300 or ac500 I would probably go with these batteries based on the fact they are supposed to be cheaper.
Great review, always detailed and the charts are excellent. I thought sound levels are typically taken at 3 feet, is your meter compensating for distance?
If it is connected to the main unit, you can still charge it through the main unit. If your main unit is dead/faulty, then that is a larger issue than not being able to charge the B300K independently.
I have a 200AC max and two AC300 head units so all three would have to fail for me in order to not be able to charge the battery. You do make a legit point however. Maybe if you only have one head unit you buy the older batteries that can be charged individually.
It looks like an "L-bracket" of some sort would let you mount it in lots of interesting ways. Does the manual specify how much load the bolt holes can handle? I wonder if you could use those bolt holes to mount the battery unit to a wall and then stack an AC200Max or an AC200L on top of it? I would imagine an AC300 or AC500 (given that they don't have their own internal battery) would be fine. @7:15
Scratch that, it looks like you wouldn't even be able to stack them on top anyways because the cables don't reach, I hadn't gotten to that point of the video yet. I do wonder if you could get a right angle adapter to plug off of both units and if that would give you enough length to do it.
QQ - And probably a dumb one, Can the AC2A switch itself from normal AC input to Solar power if it detects that it's receiving enough solar power to Self-Consumption? in other words If there's enough solar power can it stop charging and save its battery for night time and pass thru energy to appliances connected to it directly? I believe you call this Solar Self-Consumption.
Love the detailed reviews and I purchaced a AC180 mostly based on this review to power my Bambu Lab 3D printer to mitigate for any grid issues. I have a few questions I cannot find definitive answers for, given the senario below and I know that when running from PV input ONLY, we are in online UPS mode. The AC180 battery is FULL and there is both grid and PV input and an AC load is consuming LESS that the PV input. 1. Are we in online or offline inverter mode ? 2. If the grid input fails, will there be (up to) a 20mS switching time?, I guess this depends on the answer to 1 above. 3. If the AC180 battery is only at 50%, silent mode is activated and the PV input is HIGHER that the current grid charging (usually < 350W), does this chnage the answers to 1 and 2 above. 4. The 3 charging modes only seem to affect grid input, PV only input can be up to 500W, will the fans still kick in (so no more silent tmode) ? I have tested the 3D printer while connected to the AC180 with only grid input and it's seems to be oblivious )phew) to me toggling the grid input off and back on.
If folks are researching which top "name brand" power station to purchase, whatever you do...stay FAR from any Jackery! It's an inferior product with only a 3 year warranty and as soon as that 3 yrs is up, it'll fail and their support will only give you a "trade-in discount voucher" and most of their stuff is all proprietary too...lousy product, lousy service and not user-friendly when trying to use 3rd party stuff. Bluetti seems the way to go!
I really appreciate your detailed information. Especially the pairing info with the expansion batteries as I own a 180 but need more storage. I couldn't find the information anywhere else. Thanx 🎉
And of course there was always atleast another 240v line very close by, so that would be 415v AC , as you know 240v X 1.732 gives 2 phases of 415 volts AC. The Amps from that is very hot. So i guess i feel lucky :)
