BLUETTI AC200 AC200P Portable Power Station Q&A! Your Questions Answered | 2000w Solar Generator 

Got the ac200p yesterday. It can run the LG 174L 1440 watt unit. It draws 1100 watts on low fan, cooling AC, on high it dipped voltage to cooling system tripped compressor but ac200p ran fine. Could be me. Reset. Runs fine. I took jackery 500 on cig lighter to aviation yellow connector to pv/car input PV of the 200. It drew 110 watts input. It also used the ac brick same time at 450w input. 200 can run fridges. Mine 23.5 cuft draws 70-110 watts. BV little 53qt dc fridge test at same time as fridge sat. Not with A/C unit on. 2000(1600) runs fridge about 12-14 hours. But I took cig lighter to eb240 to run power from it into the ac200p. And the jackery500 at 110 w input. Fyi

Plus, u have to go into the menu and select PV, to charge from SP to AC200P.

The Delta sounds like a 747 taking off.

Is 4 of the 170w panels the optimal number? Looking to get some myself, thanks.

Not to mention all them free solar generators to review. Professor Hobo is livin da dream!!

You got a problem. Lol

You are a wattaholic.

Hi Sam. I was thinking the same thing, getting 4 or maybe 6 of the 170w panels for my cabin. What are you going to do for your setup? Series or parallel? I was thinking about series-parallel as Tom said in a previous video it's the best of both. I'm excited for the AC200!

That'll work just fine.

I've found out that for me, in a small car, solar panels and batteries is not the way to go, would need a bigger vehicle for it to be practical, not enough room, even with flexible suitcase solar, the sunshine is not nearly as reliable as the places that sell gasoline. I do not like having to wait till then sun is up to charge my devices.

You don't specify how much power you need or what you need to charge, so it's difficult to answer your question. But I would assume your best bet is a flat-folding suitcase style solar system of maybe 100 watts combined with a 500 watt portable power station. This is strictly a guess. Don't carry more power than you need.

You'll want a 2nd matching 120w panel to charge the AC200.

Renea Dooserider I see The Professor just answered your comment. In the video, he says u need 2 panels at about 16:10. Good luck. Cheers.

Monna Provost Thank you.

Haha i am on the same boat

october and december for some ppl

Mine just arrived. Was a long wait but I think it’s worth it. Now I’m trying to figure out which panels to get for it that are kinda cheap but still decent quality

I'm pretty sure that he said that you can use it as an _ad hoc_ UPS by disabling eco mode for very small loads. If you're powering a computer 24x7 you shouldn't even need to do that because the computer will draw enough to keep the inverter on all the time. If you have a reliable supply of mains AC, you might want to invest in a dedicated UPS for your computer and Internet gear, so you can take your solar generator places. A good line interactive pure sine UPS can be had for $1-200 depending on capacity, and are better suited to handling the usual power line problems. The kind that you get at a big box store will only run for long enough to do an orderly shutdown of your computer; if you need a longer runtime, you can use a large solar generator to keep the computer going for hours. But if you have power outages that long, you may want to think about what loads you really need when the AC goes out. If you have a freezer full of steaks, you might want to use your AC200 to save them instead.

While this does not pass through AC power direct from the input to the output, you can leave it plugged in and turn on the inverter to power devices. You want to keep the output watts less than the input watts, obviously.

Perhaps this would be a good time to review the different UPS types for the benefit of those who aren't as familiar with the innards of these devices. There actually are several distinctions, so forgive the TL;DR: 1. *Standby* is the most common kind of UPS that you'll get from a big box store for a desktop computer. A standby UPS passes the line current through to its output when there's AC at the wall, and when the wall goes out, it starts up its inverter and uses power from the internal battery to power the load. It takes a little time to turn on the inverter, and this gap in time between loss of wall AC and when the inverter reaches full voltage can cause some sensitive devices to reboot or have problems. 2. *Online* or *Double Conversion* UPS takes the AC from the wall and rectifies it to DC to charge the battery and power the inverter. This type has no direct connection between wall (mains) current and the AC current it puts out. Any power glitches at the wall cannot pass through because an online UPS makes a new AC waveform from DC. Because there's no switchover when power is lost, sensitive electronics always see a consistent AC voltage. The cost is that some power is lost converting AC to DC and back to AC. 3. *Line Interactive* is a type of standby UPS that has some ability to regulate the AC voltage. If wall AC voltage sags, the inverter comes on automatically to make up the difference, and if the wall voltage goes too high, the UPS switches to battery power until wall voltage returns to normal. It's not quite as effective as an AC voltage regulator, but it's less costly. If AC wall power is lost, there's still a short lag between when wall power is lost and inverter power comes on. Most standby UPS models today are line interactive. When it comes to providing clean, uninterrupted AC power to a computer or any other load, the double conversion type is hands-down the best because it makes its own AC of very high quality. Industrial loads on the power grid can distort the AC waveform, and if supply can't meed demand, the voltage and frequency of the waveform can drop. Because the double conversion UPS makes a new AC waveform, the equipment plugged into it gets a solid, stable AC waveform no matter what is happening to the grid. This method is less energy efficient, but that's a reasonable compromise to keep mission critical equipment running. Larger online UPS systems are backed up by one or more Diesel generators that provide AC power indefinitely. (One facility that I worked for was a large metropolitan hospital that had grid-tie generators, and during a heat wave we fired up our six Diesel gensets one by one to provide peak power to the grid. Whenever an emergency generator was started, it activated a protocal that dispatched a Diesel tanker to the hospital to ensure an uninterrupted supply of fuel for the generators. And sure enough, before we lit the last one up, two trucks were parked outside. Even with our help the grid failed later that afternoon, and the two tankers kept our generators' tanks topped off for 3 days.) Most home and RV off-grid solar power systems are functionally the same as a double conversion UPS, they generate DC to charge batteries, and invert DC to AC for appliances that need them. That's what the AC200 does. If you really need the reliability of a double conversion UPS, the AC200 can do double duty as one. Even the cheapest double conversion computer UPSes cost $500 or more, so having a $1200 power station that saves you the extra $500 would be economical in that way, though it would draw a little more power than a standby UPS. OTOH if you need a simple UPS for your computer, router modem etc. at home that's most energy efficient, and can free up your AC200 to take on the road with you, then spending $100 on a dedicated standby UPS for your computer gear will save electricity and free up the AC200 for other things. If the plan was to use the AC200 as a long-running UPS, sure, it will do that. But if you're at all interested in building your own lithium batteries, you should look into converting a standard UPS into an extended runtime type by replacing the SLA batteries with lithium. Jehu Garcia (jehugarcia on YT) has been making 1500 VA "solar generators" out of surplus Tripp-Lite UPS units that were discarded merely because the batteries in them failed (they're made to be replaced, but for some reason corporate buyers can't be bothered to do that) and are available for next to nothing.

It means choose the spec of the output voltage of the inverter. I checked the FAQ and unfortunately AU/NZ isn't included in the international orders list.

That's what it is designed for.

You have to DIY it.

AC200P was the upgrade. AC200 is no longer available. A larger unit is coming next month.

@@HOBOTECH thanks man so that is good news waiting for it hopefully covering as much as it can

Yes, 7-8 hours, no, yes.

You go by the Voc spec which is about 22v per panel.

@@HOBOTECH Thanks for the clarification. I knew I was missing something.

@@HOBOTECH What do you think is the best a/c fix for a power outage at home in 100 degree weather? In every economic crisis, power is rationed. Happening now in Lebanon. Happening in Venezuela.

No. Gas generators have a hard time starting those let alone trying to run one off an inverter.

@@HOBOTECH Even with a soft start and the full 700 watts of solar?

Wire them in series.

You need to put at least 2 in series to get pass the 35v minimum voltage needed but remember when you put themin series, they act as one so it 1 panel get shaded, you will lose a lot of energy. If you have 4, you can put 2 and 2 in series and then have those in parallel.

I covered solar panel hookups in previous videos. Watch the Bluetti 2400wh video and the other video on using any solar panel on solar generators.

Sure. Drop in some Battleborns and set your controller to AGM, turn off temperature compensation and equalization modes.

Heidi is the bomb, Tom should include her in more videos since she abandoned her channel.

Review will be coming.

Sure, at about 25% loss.

No.

Lithium batteries hold charge for >1 year no problem. This supports pass through charging like stated in the original review video.

@@HOBOTECH Thank you so much! Mine is on order.

It comes with everything you need. You may want MC4 extension cables.

It's on my very long list of to-do videos. Needless to say it's near impossible to build something like this with this level of quality and features yourself for less.

If I recall Zamp uses SAE connectors. I have an adapter on my site for SAE to MC4.

HOBOTECH ok thanks

Some faults reset automatically, some you have to turn off/on the button.

10AWG is fine www.calculator.net/voltage-drop-calculator.html?material=copper&wiresize=3.277&voltage=132&phase=dc&noofconductor=1&distance=50&distanceunit=feet&amperes=8&x=46&y=22

@@HOBOTECH Thanks!!

See my latest video for portables or watch the 4 AC200 videos in the description.

I don't know if the production models are different than what I have. Bluetti has posted photos from the factory on their page. Maybe there are clues.

I cover the Bluetti panel in the follow up video to this,.

What it comes with is what you need.

Unchanged.