ALLPOWERS Portable Power Station 300W, 288Wh Portable Power Source, 110V/78000mAh Backup Battery Power Supply with Pure Sine Wave, Solar Generator for Outdoors Camping Travel RV Emergency

2021 AllPowers 372Wh Power StationWe have had our first AllPowers 372Wh Power Station Generator for a while now. We are now buying a second one. It works great. It weighs about 8 pounds and is about the size of a 6ix pack. Its been used to power lights and fans during a power outage. We also used it to power Christmas lights on our pontoon boat this year. The Power Station is easy to use, well built and even supports Bluetooth connectivity through an app on my iPhone. I compared many brands before choosing Allpowers.The Allpowers Power Stations large 100,500mAh battery is what makes it stand out from some of the similarly priced competitors. This battery provides 372Wh of energy. Which is perfect for emergencies, camping, CPAPs and other uses where portable power is needed. While it can power any electrical AC device under 300watts, we have purchased USB and DC lights for emergencies. The display shows watts used and estimates remaining time available. This is very useful. With DC lights it will last 20 to 30+ hours. Our AC LED Christmas lights on our pontoon boat barely put a dent in the battery after several hours.It has output plugs/ports for:• 2x - 110v AC (3 prong plug)• 2x - 12v DC (5525 barrel plug)• 1x - 12v DC (cigarette lighter outlet)• 1x - wireless induction charger for phones• 3x - USB A 5v DC• 1x - USB C PCFor 110v AC it uses a much better “pure sine” inverter, which is better for electronics like computers.It comes with a 110v wall charger thru a 5521 barrel plug and has an Anderson port for charging from a solar panel.Anytime I have contacted AllPowers support they have been quick to respond, knowledgeable about their products and very willing to engage on resolving my issues.In the end AllPowers Power Station offered the most features, quality and value for the price. Very glad we made the Allpowers choice and highly recommended it. We are a AllPowers fan.

This is my 2nd portable generator. My old one is basically designed to charge with an AC adapter, not solar. My 45 watt solar panel is too puny to charge it. The AllPowers unit has a power meter that displays the charge or drain current, and it charges just fine with my 45 watt panel. I have both Android and iOS phones and was surprised that both work great with the built in wireless charger. To test the AllPowers out with some current drain, I completely emptied a Ryobi 40V power tool battery then put it in its charger and plugged it into the AC port of the AllPowers to charge. WHILE charging an external battery with the AllPowers via its AC inverter, I plugged in my 100W solar panel to charge at the same time. (My old generator can’t do charging and discharging at the same time.) After a couple of hours the Ryobi battery was 100% and the AllPowers dropped slightly. It regained full charge a couple hours later.The power meter is really useful! Essential really.My old generator is around 6 lbs and this one is around 8 lbs. My old one has around 50,000 mAH, and this has double at 100,000 mAh. It’s an enormous amount of storage for its size.I was hoping I could keep an eye on the charging progress from a distance using the phone app but I did not find it very useful since it is a pain to connect and disconnects at around 6 feet away.At the time I bought my AllPowers AP-SS-005 Amazon offered an immediate $100 off, so I’m pleased with the functionality it provides at that price.Update March 2020: I bought a 2nd unit recently and it stopped charging after a while. AllPowers replaced it promptly.Notes from experience:- The AC inverter works great with small tools like a Dremel, or a hand drill. The start up surge of a rotary hand saw, however, will trip the breaker.- If it gets below freezing temperatures, it won’t power up until warmed up a bit.- They arrive with zero percent power initially, charge slowly at first, and won’t power up for quite a while. Don’t panic.

So far, so good. Received completely depleted, and it wasn't charging up correctly. I plugged it into my solar panel, and that seemed to get the battery voltage up to where it could be registered. It could then be charged via the power supply.I have only tried charging this with a 50 watt panel, but I got 32 watts from that. I just ordered 2 60 watt panels and will see what the charge efficiency is on it.Bluetooth didn't work properly either. I contacted allpowers, and they guided me to resetting the controller, and that did the trick.It works, has a good capacity, and can provide the emergency power needs.Update: 1/28/20So.... this thing has some serious issues. It will lock up after powering down, requiring the 2 30 amp fuses to be removed. Also, I had the individual cells get out of balance, causing the bms to shut itself off. It would not accept a charge, which is also another thing. The bank will not accept a charge from the ac adapter. It will not take any power in from it. The mppt charge function still works, so I haven't made a grumble about it, but at this point I found it wouldn't accept a charge from any power source now.I took the bank apart, and found many, many loose connections. The individual boards are sandwiched in using standoffs, and the standoffs are what carry the dc power to the boards. Everyone of these were loose, causing the boards to just be floppy. I took it down to the bms board, and applied a charge of each cell bank to 3.7VDC. I then put it back together and the bms came back to life allowing everything to power up and receive a charge.Seems to me that the assembly and QA portion of this product is seriously lacking. I would not recommend anyone buy this bank, as there are better options out there with more capacity, and better construction.