today we're going to check out a device in an emerging space of power backup off-grid kind of living these are the most massive most powerful power banks you're probably going to set your eyes on a couple of boxes over there as you can see we're actually going to be checking out a modular system from blue eddy which lets you pile together battery modules all the way up over 12 000 watt hours which is going to provide you with tremendous power in the event of a power outage or if you're the type that likes to travel go off grid you can charge these things up with solar panels they're really cool versatile types of devices so there's the portable power stations which are targeted at road trips van life camping film sets we were just talking about we could get a tremendous amount of power if we wanted to do some sort of a shoot away from the studio and then they've also got devices targeted for your home right these are heavy-duty power stations but these can also be used for off-grid living and van life these ones have wheels on them they're meant to be pushed around these ones have sort of more of a rugged aesthetic the portable power stations this is what we're checking out it's the latest thing the ac 300 and the b300 system which is a modular system letting you pile together a number of b300 units each one over 3000 watt hours up to over 12 000. that's like tesla's power wall except you can move it around of course you can use it for home backup you can use it in the event of a power outage you can also put it in your van in your truck you can charge it a number of ways you can buy different combos from them depending on how many battery modules you want to add to your setup as you can see you have portable power stations home battery backup on the other side but this is like the head unit which will sit atop whichever setup of batteries that you might want to have depending on capacity and application this is a 3 000 watt ac inverter 6000 watt surge you can add four b300s to create a tremendous stack of backup battery power think of it like ups on steroids with similar power to generator-like power but instead the electric equivalent seven ways to recharge ac solar car generator lead battery dual ac or ac plus solar 2 at once if you want to get an even faster recharge 2400 watt max solar input 5400 watt max fast dual charging so that's your extra speed if you can do solar and ac at the same time there's an app to kind of control and see everything that's happening with your device and of course this is capable of a home ups style backup so here you can see some different applications this is the tailgate type scenario you can run fridges you can run tvs camping obviously this is what it looks like in the variety of configuration today we're going to check it out with one battery unit we're going to do this setup over here that's 3072 watt hours but you can see how this thing becomes an absolute beast all the way up here when you add four separate battery modules here's a typical recharge scenario from the wall or of course from solar and then you can actually have 24 7 ups home backup by putting this in your utility room having it wired up to your actual panel you can have your essential items never lose power in the event of a power outage they'll just shift over to this battery setup could be in your basement possibly in your garage of course it's also got all the ports that you would expect on a modern device like this so you can charge up all of your different devices imagine how many times you could recharge a mobile device when you're talking about up over 12 000 watt hours these are the little battery modules over here you can buy them one at a time you can kind of catch a deal if you get one of the combo setups on your initial order as well if you're not in the market for such a serious kind of backup they do also make more uh approachable devices that are even more portable like this 716 watt hour 800 watt 200 watt solar capable unit that you can just carry around a little bit easier maybe more for the hiker types those with smaller packs and the camper types but anyway they have a ton of products look at all the 20 amp max ports that are on there the 30 amp port which is also on there that i could use the 30 amp port to charge the adventure van i call it adventure van because it's not true van life i mean i don't live in the van but i do go on adventures and i use it often for tailgating as well look at the way these things connect together look at the seriousness of uh those power cables wild in this case it's almost 25 000 watt hours because it connected two they connected two full farms can also hot swap so the reason you might want to have a modular system is so you have no downtime by being able to swap out individual battery units hot swap them you don't have downtime but you can go recharge the individual unit before adding it back your entire setup yeah so when you add the inverter you come to a max 3000 watt delivery look at this so you're recharging this unit in 1.5 hours two hours for the enormous 8200 watts setup oh wait a sec so what this is demonstrating here is the ability to charge it via a gas generator so then you could store that power for later use unlike with a generator where you have to have it running without the ability to necessarily store it somewhere you can also charge it from our car 12 volt 24 volt so you have dc charging and then we can charge it off a lead acid battery so if you have a car battery sitting around you can actually charge this battery from that battery to make the power more useful to you because now you have all these extra interfacing options because you can plug so many different types of things into it now to charge it off a wind turbine or an ev charge station cool man imagine you hit up the ev charge station you charge up your batteries and then of course solar which we already talked about you could charge it from a solar roof or portable solar panels which they also happen to sell yeah this is the one we have the ac300 nutty eight battery packs holy got the tools going got the shop vac got the fan going got the saw going recharge the batteries going yeah imagine on the job site we're on the fridge microwave blender it's a power outage and you're having a party with the popcorn what you're doing in laundry what power's out gotta do the laundry power's out i'm gonna go do the laundry man it's that's one of those things you do it just because you're like damn right i can do the laundry with the power out cause i got the blue eddie set up 2400 watt max input the portable solar panels and this is what i like i like it on the go i like it in the truck i like the tailgate i get can run my tv i can run the sporting that's one thing they're missing in their demo is the sporting tailgating you want to watch the sporting event with your pals no problem okay so first things first the battery unit that we were just looking at the b300 it has this kind of like rugged design to it with two really large handles and you might be looking and saying well where's all the ports and stuff so the way that this setup works is in conjunction with the ac300 which sits on top of it so if we look over here you'll see there's a big power switch a usb a at 18 watts a usbc at 100 watts you have a dc on off switch and you also have a battery indicator showcasing how much battery is left as far as capacity there's different led lights for 180 60 40 20 and then of course we also have 12 volt dc at 10 amps now the way that this unit is going to interface with your ac 300 with the inverter that's going to send power to all your different devices is over here and this is also just how we're going to charge this up this is our inputs so we have a dc input for charging course we have ac input for charging and these are connections into the battery for your ac unit or for adding even more batteries to the modular setup okay so for me this is the exciting one because it gives you so many interfacing options i can imagine having this in the van or having this in the truck or even at home i can plug everything into this there's nothing i can't plug into and then i just supply battery to it via the b300 units you can see we have a large display on the front over here we have dc output all volt dc 30 amp output 24 volt 10 amp look at this bank of 20 amp max household style outlets one two three four five six now you also have a 30 amp max outlet here this is for your heavy duty appliances or your rv or your adventure van or whatever you want to plug into a 30 amp max outlet whatever requires it another usbc 100 watt usb a 18 watt x 2 usb a 5 volt dc 3 amp or your less power hungry devices but four total usb a ports one 100 watt usb c port we also have a nice big dedicated power switch metal looks like it has an led ring around the outside of it up top right here you can see we have two separate wireless chargers with a 15 watt output so this is incredibly convenient this is exactly the area that would be exposed all you got to do is just drop your phone on there just like that your wireless charging or your wireless earbuds or whatever it is that you happen to have with you you can imagine on the campsite everybody's going to want to be near this thing because they can just plop their devices down and keep them charged up so these have these little screw-on pieces and this is going to be with a gasket as well so for water and weather resistance in general this is going to be your ac input you want to charge up off of a typical household we also have our dc input this could be charging off of a vehicle or something like that we have our communication interface at the bottom this is where you're going to be connecting your battery modules the b300 that i just showed you will link up in this direction okay so this is what our stack looks like this is how you might have a setup if you have one battery unit to go with the ac 300 i'm going to power this up first next comes here no it doesn't because the cable is not connected so this little cable here is responsible for the communication between both devices this also has these kind of rubberized caps for durability and probably weather resistance and the screen has now booted up it's showcasing the amount of power in the battery bank 96 this is a touch screen as well so we have our ac output frequency ac output voltage dc input source i mean we can manage our variety of connections either right on the screen or of course we can also get the application and just do it from our mobile device dc off dc on wireless charging sick this is a way of preserving your battery life and just managing the battery that you have obviously by turning the banks off you're able to still use this unit without needing to have everything powered up that at the same time or needing to unplug everything that you might have constantly connected to this you can manage it from here okay now we have some bigger devices here to test this out and have a little bit of fun over here i have like one of those coffee makers a keurig coffee maker like an instant one just really needs your coffee in the event of a power outage there's even a microwave here and some microwavable popcorn because you need your popcorn in the power outage or off-grid off-grid microwave popcorn last up there's a large light here that light right there uses around 360 watts not as much as some other film equipment particularly if you didn't have an led light but nonetheless let's do the light first and go into our first ac port and then i'm going to go ahead and just turn ac on running no problem just plugged into there this thing is not plugged into anything else right now we're still 96 battery let's just keep an eye on it they're both actually connected to this single power just came to the microwave we have power as well on the keurig coffee maker and we have a cup all right here we go battery-powered coffee coming right up 95. good lord it's exactly eight ounces oh Man that is a battery coffee right there that's gonna be hot i'm gonna just let this cool down for a moment i promise i will sip it but the microwave 1050 watts that's a lot of watts so it's a real test here big power going to and we're running right now 94. what are we gonna is it gonna be like one percentage point for a bag of popcorn in the microwave maybe that's the thing you got 3072 watt hours what if i had four of these i'm running an entire enterprise with four of these this entire business this ceiling here this whole studio is pretty wild you're not gonna need to worry seriously we're living in a new age here you got your own little power station going 1433 watts now i suppose we have a couple of other items plugged in coffee maker is still plugged in the light is still plugged in let's charge the phone at the same time let's turn dc on no problem we're charging a phone now too there you go 4 watts 5 watts you're going to see that go up a little bit but the rgb light that's 360 watts so that's how we get to our 14 17. but this baby is 3 000. we could be man i could be double popcorn right now you could have your electric cooktop you can have in their videos the people were doing the laundry that's a hot oh it's a hot tamale right there there's like butter coming out of it i got everything that's hot right now because i got all this power maybe i'll sip the coffee first and i'll come back to this that thing is steaming this is my exactly eight ounces of battery coffee it tastes so much better than wall coffee i prefer completely portable battery coffee from now on how we doing for power we're at 92 196 watts is the current load on ac 10 watts on dc and the app is showing you anything that is pulling power at any given time so you simply check on here and you can also see obviously your battery percentage is on there so you can track and turn off any of these ports if you want to manage your power oh and of course it'll also show you incoming power via either solar or from the grid it'll show you that this thing itself is charging up but you can see this light at like 200 watts or whatever it happens to be pulling at the moment yeah 196 i mean it's not really touching our power consumption and the microwave which is over a thousand watts to make some popcorn knocked it down a couple percentage points this is true off-grid living it's true power outage survival and that's with only one b300 unit and of course we can expand this so i don't think there's gonna be any panic in your household if the power goes out wireless router going into here for internet a little bit of lighting definitely not 200 watts worth you don't even need that a little bit of cooking and some hot drinks and whatever else create a little camp i mean you can get the video games going they don't even use that much power playstation hooked up small display and run it for a long time or expand it if you're a power user you want all your luxuries even in the power outage even off grid even in the adventure van it's the biggest battery bank that i've ever looked at by a lot that's it right there the blue eddy ac300 and b300 oh popcorn i almost forgot about popcorn taste test i had battery coffee this is battery popcorn measure delicious off-grid it tastes like van life tastes like a mercedes sprinter it tastes like a ford transit tastes like an art like an rv tastes like a Winnebago it tastes like a tent it tastes like mount Kilimanjaro it tastes like algonquin park it tastes like a subaru this thing is cool this thing's cool like tell me it's not cool that thing is cool