Round Two – Bluetti AC200L

From the round one post – everybody should be familiar with the office setup – – –

And on with Round Two . . .

So to make it all work – you also need the internet . . .

Mounted an outlet strip to the wall with velcro sticky tape stuff – then plugged the WiFi dongle / transformer for the router / corner table lamp into it – then plugged it into the wall socket where it all lives behind the couch . . .

Need to power it? Just reach your arm down behind the couch – unplug it from the wall – plug it into a 50′ extension cord – plug the cord into the Bluetti – easy peasy!

The 50′ cord runs out to the far corner of the front living room – the 25′ cord / cube tap / 15′ cord runs over to the office . . .

The Bluetti found a nice home on the bottom shelf of the bookcase – Plenty of room for airflow and the cord bag . . .

Round Two @ app. 2 hours . . .

Round Two @ app. 7 hours . . .

Round Two at the end of the test run – app. 9hrs 20min – 27% battery remaining . . .

There is the ac charging cable . . .

Behind the shredder and printer stand – unplug the printer stand – plug it in and recharge and it’s ready to go with 100% in about 1 1/2hrs . . .

Bruce – we have about a zillion questions! – And I have many, many answers – the majority of which you will soon realize that you are not emotionally prepared for. Stop right there Bruce – just talking about the Bluetti setup! Sure know how to spoil my fun – LOL!

If you are thinking about whole house back up power supply go find yourself a contractor who is familiar with solar – and most importantly electrical code for your area! You really don’t want to have something go wrong and then find out your insurance won’t cover the oopsie!

If I were truly concerned about whole house power supply in the event of a grid down occurrence – I would go with with a big name company ( Kohler / Cat / Generac ) for a natural gas fired liquid cooled generator – but I’m just talking some office equipment for my Blushing Bride and a couple of radios and a laptop for yours truly for how long? – a few minutes? – an hour? – the longest power glitch we have had in a year was maybe 3 seconds total . . .

Start by getting a watt meter – $12 or $14 dollars on Amazonia . . .

Then take a pencil and a piece of paper and check everything you want to run – add it up – add 20% or 25% to that total – then start multiplying by hours of run time you want to cover. mine was figured this way – 150 watts total ( not counting the surge when the little freezer starts ) x 10 hrs = 1500 watts rounded up by 25% = 1875 watts – the Bluetti with a 2048 watt hour battery reserve landed right in the sweet spot – with about 25% battery to spare.

Why Bluetti? – out of the box ease of use and the physical size was right for where I wanted it to live / sleep / play – and the dogs know the book shelves are verboten! – sometimes you just have to talk German to them – LOL!

You can set the Buetti up as a UPS ( Uninterruptible Power Supply ) if you want to – there is an app for your phone – which I downloaded then opened it – looked at it it then closed it – and didn’t even screw anything up! – LMAO!

As far as solar – certainly not a fan boy – but if you need to charge up your – and I loathe the term simply because it doesn’t “generate” anything! – it’s a storage battery with a pure sine wave inverter to convert DC into AC – solar generator it’s pretty seamless to do that as well.

Here’s a couple of videos you can watch – the first is a deep dive into the Bluetti AC200L and the second one looks at the various UPS modes available with Buetti products.

I have had a little Jackery for a long time – it’s great for fishing / camping stuff – but it simply doesn’t have the reserve ( 280 AH ) to do very much for very long . . .

I’ll run the Bluetti for a day the first week of every month – unless it needs to be run for a power outage – so – is a Bluetti product right for your perceived needs?? It works for me – the best thing I can tell you is research the available products thoroughly – But Bruce – This one from ABCXYZ Corp will run everything for just about forever!! – but if you need a fork lift truck to move it or you really don’t have room to store it where it is readily available . . .

If you really want to see next generation “stuff” – research Yoshino Solid-State Portable Power Stations – just about too cool – and still pricey – a Yoshino with a 2611 watt hour solid-state battery will set you back about $3300 – about the same as a Bluetti AC200L with two extra 2048 watt hour batteries – but Oh My My . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

a lot of folks wonder why i tag a lot of my posts as “funstuff” – let me ask you a serious question here folks – if you’re not having fun – then why are you doing it???