Bluetti AC180 Power Station: Your Key to Van Life Freedom! 

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That works out to less than $0.22 a day, or about $6.57 a month for electricity. Not a bad deal, imo.

I am happy with the weight of the unit - smaller person here so the 60+lbs of the ac200 was just too much for me to drag around. This has power and I can either put them on light dollies or lift carefully.

also no charging block, plugs straight into wall outlet &plug is easily replaceable.

I read everywhere that you cant power washing machines is there a reason for that lol? My washing machine peeks at 1880 watts

Reflectix has a R value of 1.

@@PrettyGoodLookin yes, but it does reflect the sun from hitting the cooler

I have the same but going to buy the AC180 Black Friday sale of $649!

How do you like it ? is it working out ?

I'm in a similar situation. I watch a lot of channels that feature solar for vanlife/RV living & am still learning. The number 1 thing I take from it is: solar panels are the focus not the battery. Especially true if we're not driving everyday nor parked near a power outlet. The more powerful & plentiful the panels can be on top - means they're going to better serve our power needs. Factor in that we might be parked under tree shade or heavy cloud, & that the sun might only hit the solar panels for 6 hours at best. We're not getting 12 hours of solar production. There's only so much real estate on a roof so if needed- adding extra portable panels to capture the sun, & foldup at night, will supplement the fixed panels. To calculate size of battery - add up all the every day, essential power needs, not wants - fridge, AC, heat, lights etc & how long they will be used in 24hrs. Translate that to battery size & capacity of solar panels as if the panels only powered the battery for 6 hrs. Also solar panels need a heat sink - if they get overheated they don't work. That means - the beefier house panels with strong frames with aluminium fins allowing air circulation - are going to perform better on a vehicle than the flat thin flexible panels that practically get glued to the roof. This of course is an evolving industry which will bring out new products with improved efficiency as time goes on.

same

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Great! Yesterday I bought AC180 with 200W solar panel option 44% off, it'll arrive next week. Sale ended today, I lucked out yesterday. 420W portable solar panel was not available to buy yesterday - how big is your 420W solar panel completely open? Completely closed? Thanks.

They will never again be discounted below 799, trust me. These will be popular enough do them to demand at a minimum 1200. This is the best price for such amount of power

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I recieved the proper charging cable and now all is well.

These are batteries, so they should NOT be stored in heat.

I love the lighter units for various things, I even have several EB3A units, just 10 pounds.

They have an 8mm adapter (Jackery's own 8mm too, I beleive), if you can get an adapter from that to MC4, You can join it to Bluetti's solar cable.

I use a Jackery 100 watt panel with Eb3a and it works fine.

Yes

Yes you can

I ordered my AC180 a week ago. Expect early Aug delivery. I too want to use aftermarket panel(s). I will mostly AC charge but want to add 1 100w? or 200w? panel to help keep my new AC180 charged. New to solar so watching for more info on panel needs/use. peace, e

I need this information too!

I found out after I purchased both units that the cable is on back order.

It has just one DC outlet, and CPAP runs longer on DC, your fridge is probably for DC, and even if you have a DC splitter I believe the outlet is restricted to 129 watts. So that could be a problem unless you can verify that even with your fridge and CPAP running their combined watts do not exceed that small limit. OR - because this is a bigger unit with decent watts (1800W), maybe you could use your CPAP or fridge on AC. You will have to do a bit of homework to ensure the CPAP runtime you need for a decent sleep as well as keep your fridge going until you can recharge via vehicle or plug-in or solar.

@@debbiedogs1 Thank you so much for this reply. I would have to run the CPAP 8 hours. I will do further research. I am just working out my plans and thinking of price points on things. I am going to have to do a no build build.

@@jazziered142 - I am not a camper, so my solar has been used at home and I do not know specific needs for CPAP, except that if you use the humidifier there is a higher draw on your power. So someone with CPAP experience can tell you more; and you might find someone near you who can tell you the figures to look at on your CPAP and your Iceco fridge and do a good "guesstimate" about the dryer, and therefore what unit(s) would be good for you.

@@jazziered142 - Oupes sells an 1800 unit for about $900- 1000 usually, that takes 400 watts solar, which means it can recharge fairly quickly with decent sun. I run my house fridge with it, and it runs it for 24 hours!! Let me see if I can find the total output of the DC outlets (one like a vehicle outlet, plus some USB and PD types).

Shalom, ya all!