 Welcome back to the channel guys. My name is Rick. I'm an HVACR technician, which means heating air conditioning refrigeration I also serve as home standby generators. That's the reason why I've been doing some of these portable power station reviews lately All powers reached out to me with the 600 watt our 600 series This is one of their smaller models which makes it more convenient lighter and charges faster because of the smaller battery Now this device gonna be a little different than the 4,000 series that I've just done a review on that is 3,600 watt This little guy here has some features that the big one didn't have like portability size weight and cost with the discount code that I'm gonna have linked down below You're gonna be able to pick this up currently here in May of 2023 for just a little over $210 and right behind it I have the 200 watt solar panels that are a great accompaniment to the portable power supply These are gonna allow you to charge up on the go whether you're in the backyard out camping or at the beach You're gonna be able to keep your power generator charged up We're gonna test all these things out. So we're not just gonna read the display and measure it there We're gonna put these under real life load tests. It's important to know exactly how much power you're gonna need Well, there's only one way to know that and that's to calculate exactly how much power you're gonna need One way to do that is to use a kilowatt meter to measure how much power your devices that you're wanting to run Actually uses and then you can add that up to calculate how many watt hours you need now This device here is rated at 299 watt hours, which means that you can get 299 watt out of it over a one-hour period of time However, there is an efficiency loss there which we will calculate up in the video Generally, the battery has to protect itself from over discharge and overcharge both of them can damage the battery So this device here will shut down depending on how hard the load is on the battery Possibly at a 5% or 10% reserve level now if it's a smaller load It may let it go all the way down to 0% It just really depends on the load because this device has built-in management system That's going to determine what the charge rate is and the discharge rate is that's appropriate for the device Speaking of charging rates This does have three different rates of charge that you can check and change in the app, which is Bluetooth This little device here also offers wireless charging at 15 watts It's one of the first ones that all-powers has came out with that has the wireless charging built right into it So you don't have to remember your USB cords to charge your phone or other wireless devices that have wireless charging Let's go ahead and get into the testing. This is going to test the DC battery pack We're going to be using here is a load generator So we can see right now that our voltage is right in there at 13.23 Right, let's go ahead and test it out at 10 amp load. So we can tell at 3 amps. We're already at 12.5 volts Right now we're running 37 watts. You can see right here what our resistance is and what our capacity in milliamp hours We're also going to be doing this on the USBs to verify that they truly can put out the wattage that they're rated at So this is the first test which we're going to go ahead and step this up So we're at 11.5 volts DC right there And we're right at the 10 amp mark and it is running You can see that that equates out to be in 130 watts when you come down to here You can see right here the power shows to be 115 watts What I calculate that to being is potentially some voltage drop through the panels here That's reason why I went with the heavier cables. So like I said, we're right at 10 amps So we know that it can do it and let's see how many amps we can go There's 10.5 voltage still hanging in there at 11.4 Yeah, it didn't like it much about that and I'm bringing it You can see that it overloaded there So it's rated for every bit of the 10 amps that it's rated for this test here proves that it is actually Producing the wattage that they called for. Okay, we went off on an E4 which is a error So we're just gonna go ahead and restart it. Oh, we can see our voltage came back to 13.2 Go ahead and put it back under load It looks like we should get about two hours of runtime out of this So we're gonna go ahead and let this run until she goes dead And we're gonna see how many watt hours we get out of it to sustain the test for as long as possible So far we are at 25 minutes. We're continuing at eight amps Wanted to check and show the heat pattern or what we've got going on here scrolling over to the device You can see that our socket area is actually a little bit warm on the side You can see we've only got a slight heat coming down from below. You can tell the batteries are down here at the very bottom Coming back around the front as you can also notice, you know, there is a little bit of heat in the connections That's why loose connections are pretty important jumping back around You can see on the side here down into that area there There must be a conversion process because the battery packs most likely are more than the 13 volts that they're showing So it's probably a regulated power supply. Actually, we're up to 154 degrees on the pump spots. They're holding crap Yeah, I don't think it's 150 degrees, but I suppose it's possible The center mark is 119. So yeah, you go to that very very tip Blacks usually the best reflectiveness for most accurate temperatures. So internally you're getting about 155 Probably not the greatest connection in the world, but it's what I have available. So come down to the wire We're right at about 90 some on the actual device itself. Looks like we're not getting much over a hundred and seventeen So it actually drained it all the way down to zero percent Which I've never seen done before but that was probably because we were going very slow at the amperage that we were pulling it out At looks like we came in at two hundred and fifty two watt hours lasted two hours and 38 minutes So there you have it on that part, which that should be equivalent to the same thing for your 12 volt here Because 12 volts 12 volts. It's the same thing. It's just a little warm nothing burned up didn't hurt the plug or nothing This is the same adapter I use for the solar panels now We're going to go ahead and recharge it you can see that we're already up to four percent It's only been charging for a short duration of time But you can see that the charge rate right now is right around 200 watts input, but it should be about an hour and a Quarter you would figure It's just you're filling up with 299 watt hour battery going in at 200 watts So you can just pretty well do the math there. It's saying about one hour All right, so right here is the specs on the USB-C and USB-A you can see the different amperages that they're they're marking down here We're gonna have anywhere depending on whether you're doing five volts at three amps I'm gonna focus more on amperage than I am the wattage just kind of depends on what voltage it's running at same thing with USB-C testing it out the USB power adapter. We're coming in at 20 watts off the front of the display and It's rated for 18 If you come down to the bottom and you look and see what exactly it's rated for on the bottom It says it can do up to three amps a current at five volts If we come down here, we look at it. We are actually pulling 3.4 amps at 16 watts, so It's a little bit off, but I think it has more to do with the lightweight cables either way That's a lot of amperage three and a half amps to be pulling through these light gauge wires We are showing that it's doing the amperage that it's actually rated at actually about a half an amp more than it's rated at Under the USB-A we can take it a little bit higher. We've got the 17 watts and that's where she drops out so let's go ahead and jump over to the USB-C and when you come down to the bottom and actually look at the USB-C To whether you're doing five volts nine volts or 15 volts you can average about three amps You've got 20 volts could equal up to five amps 200 watt max They're playing with the wattage and the amperage that you're pulling it at the 200 watts I mean, we didn't even get to truly the 36 watts on the USB-A Now if you went 15 and 15 or 17 and 17 that would add up to be in 36 watts total You know, there's not a lot of clarification on how they rated that but that would make sense because I mean if you look here it does show a times two I Would figure each one would be capable of doing that now to go ahead and make sure that we have good calibration here We're checking our voltage input into the device and we're coming in at four point eight nine The device is reading four point eight nine. That's pretty accurate right now. We're doing the USB-C To USB-C now these are rated at 100 watts according to the rating on these But just like anything it's hard to say whether you're really truly gonna get what they say they're gonna give you It's got the voltage set so that should cut out when it gets down to three point two Now what's funny is is we're not even getting to three point two But this shuts off now you got to remember the meter shutting off not the actual power supply You can see we're at four point eight as I take this wattage up It actually cuts out a lot sooner than what even the other but the problem we've got here with this is it's a longer cable Yeah, it just no not happening. So yeah Hey, you know, but if you look at the amp draw, that's the biggest thing here 3.3 so This theoretically if you go buy what they're radian at we got true amp brawl because I don't like the way to do in this And in several of all the different power stations do exactly the same thing But they rate him at five volts 12 volts it doesn't put up 12 volts unless they know something I don't know maybe these cables have different terminals on them that you can get what voltage you want But every time I plug it into this device then granted, you know, are these true rated cables? Well, these cables here are truly a hundred watts now We're gonna go ahead and just test it for USB only got everything reset roll it back down to zeros Let's go ahead and turn it on whether using a or see it really don't matter the batter capacity is what we're really looking at Here this thing charge an iPad pro and it charge a MacBook Pro just fine Just like a plug-in charger. So we're just out of two and a half amp rate Let's find out what we got. We'll look at it when it's dead currently been running right at 14 watts We have four hours of power left. This has been running all day We've been running almost 13 hours 12 hours and 44 minutes at two and a half amp load We're still running 4.9 volts. So if you were charging multiple phones all day for 12 hours, you'd still have 32 percent battery life left this thing's not going to go dead before I go to bed It kind of gives us an idea there how how long it goes. Nothing feels really warm here on it Like I said two and a half amps. It's kind of the norm with what I'm seeing out a lot of these USB plugs Now this does offer uninterruptible power supply as you can see right up here UPS right there on the front display and currently right now. It's charging back up So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and leave this little lamp on here to kind of Give you an indication of when it transfers over. It's an LED bulb inside of it So you should see just a slight blink when we unplug the utility coming into it meters reading 122 Which is utility power. We're gonna pull it That little blink and let's go ahead and plug it back in Right now. We've got the battery out of this computer so we're going to go ahead and pull the power to the charging system on the battery and See if it takes the computer out. So here we go and We unplug it and it did not take it out. Go ahead and plug it back in. We'll do it one more time See it's charging computers on and we will pull it out one more time and Boom did not lose the computer now in case you're thinking I'm playing tricks with you That's what would have happened if the power would have dropped out All right far as testing here. We are running right at 600 watts That's obviously the maximum capacity of this device. You see there are voltage is running a hundred and eight volts Which just averages around a hundred and ten to 111 on average frequency is holding in there about fifty nine point eight watts 595 592 It's rated at 599 so the meter is pretty accurate After that running there at 600 watts. Here's your meter 65 to 68 DB. That's about one foot away from it even going at three foot, which is generally where most things are measured at Somewhere around 60 60 one ish area And something else we're going to do here is put the easy watt kilowatt here up against this generic one here that Actually from what I'm seeing is pretty accurate within three quarters of a volt to one volt on the power compared to this one What we're literally going to do is plug one into the next That way they'll both keep track of the power at the same time what I like about this one here Easy to read is the biggest thing. I liked about it. We're back to 100 percent. We're going to go ahead and unplug the power from the wall And I go ahead and plug in our power meters like I said, they're both Zeroed out we're going to turn on our load and we're going to let this run until it goes dead The reason why I'm using the smaller Wattage appliances so that we're kind of giving it a 50% load Instead of a hundred percent load So we're ready at 35 seconds We're gonna go ahead and let this run and we'll come back like I said and we run it out. All right, so far we've used 1.8 Kilowatts we've got 30% left I wanted to check and see what our distortion is we're running the amp probe power meter here Which we're going in at 2.2 percent total harmonic distortion That is THD and let's look at the oscilloscope while we're under load also All right now to go ahead and check it on the oscilloscope We're just using the test leads to get any power over here to the oscilloscope And right there is our waveform. It's still holding pretty much just about perfect Got a little bit at the bottom and top there of the sine wave at the very bottom You see a little bit of a pattern. It's a little inconsistent, but otherwise That's better than most of them that I've seen in other words. It's clean power and it's perfectly Suitable for any of your electronic gizmos and gadgets. All right It just shut off right at 5% like I said It could shut off at zero like I did on the DC test or it could be 5% or so on the AC test So we're at the plug it in so we can read our meters where it stopped at was right at 249 kilowatts and on the front one here 240 so about 250 it's rated for 299 you got an efficiency loss there. Let's go ahead and do the math here real quick. We'll do that on the screen But that's pretty typical for what from what I've seen so far out of the ones that I've tested But there you have it now. We're gonna take a quick look here at the charging rate We're going in at 325 watts this thing will be fully charged here in 20 21 more minutes even some of the 1500 and 1500 watt power stations that I'm reviewing only have 198 watts going into them. So this one recharge is really fast. Although. It's not the largest power supply out there It does recharge rather quickly with it being a 299 watt hour I'm just gonna call it 300 watt hour battery when you're cramming in 320 watts, it's gonna be less than an hour to recharge it. I mean the mathematical Formulas that they're doing here on the display is pretty simple and cut and dry very easy to understand now One thing we didn't go over yet was the app that they have for it I did have problems with this with my Android. So let's go ahead and look at it with a Apple Okay, we're gonna go in here to the all-powers app. We're gonna click on it our 4000 that I've already got it's got a full fledged. You can check it out turn things on and off You're able to control different ones This device here is Bluetooth only it does not have Wi-Fi on it So we're gonna go for Bluetooth devices click on it hit next step This is where I had problems with the Android right there is the 600 click on it connecting It's very simple So what you're seeing right here is pretty much the same thing that you've got on the display right there We have the AC turned on or off you can turn it off But generally it won't charge unless it's turned on so it's not really gonna shut it off You can go down here to the DC you can turn DC off, which I hit the button right here That will allow it to shut off you can turn your light on off so Simple as that 50 Hertz versus 60 Hertz the last thing we really need is 60 50 Hertz While it's on I don't believe it will switch by accident, which is a good thing Yeah, it's trying and it's saying no, which is good You don't really want to run your equipment at 50 Hertz as we've gotten closer to our charging rate of full You can see that we've dropped down from 320 some watts down to 180 So it's slowly working it in there. So it does have intelligent charging. It's it's not real There's not a whole lot to turn on and off. I mean once you're turning it on you're doing your thing I don't I don't know if it's really a necessary thing having the app But it is there so if you're you know if you had a bigger system and it was outside or whatever You'd be able to monitor it as long as you're within the range of the Bluetooth or the Wi-Fi Now we're gonna go ahead and discuss the 200 watt solar panels It's a nice small package weighs in just at under 14 pounds has a total of four legs on the back that extend out Which will hold it up into the position. We got two latches right here on front that we have to release to open it up It's a simple as pushing the button unfold and unfold. So we're gonna do it from the rear here so you can see what's going on Okay, so we've got everything there set up just take our plug and we plug it right into The side of the machine plug it into the male female connectors Right here on the back. Just take the male plug it into the female and We're plugged in All right, finally the Sun's coming out. We've got them set up right here Let's see what kind of wattage we get out of it here because this has been very difficult when it's just been crap weather To see what kind of wattage we can get out of it 120 128 134 There we go It's all dependent on What kind of sunlight you've got if you don't have perfect sunlight you'll never get the rating that they give you on these Never and just so we can kind of see that we're not faking it out here It's just setting their face in the Sun and it's poking in and out between those clouds. So it's definitely Hit and miss on whether it's gonna stay hitting it like it needs to But that does verify that we do get at least a decent rating out of it if you got good sun So if you're out there in the desert somewhere, or you're in a you know We're in the middle of summer or out on the beach whatever it's gonna do awesome But if you're if it's cloudy They're gonna be pretty much worthless. So we just rearrange them a little bit better Let's see what we get this time Yeah 134 Like I said, it's Just hit and miss you can see the Sun just went behind a cloud and there it goes down Solar ain't what everybody cracks it up to be and at that rate right there as you can see Two hours to charge full now when I first got this to review I was a little bit hesitant because it is only 600 watts I'm always looking for bigger is better But there's plenty of times when you don't really need a huge battery power system Especially if you're one to stay mobile and you're charging small appliances and now if you're wanting to run the house Obviously, this isn't gonna do it the size of this thing is pretty Pretty decent. I mean, it's not heavy. It's not big. It's easy to transport. It's nice and round and all edges You've got air vents on the side here, which makes it breathe Well, you got the built-in plug here on the side, which allows you to charge without having to carry a brick Your overload right here on the side Flat just pops up. I thought at first you push in on it But doesn't you just flip it up and you're good to go there and on this side here. We've got you can see all into The electronics there you can see right through it. Yeah, you can see through the grass there It's gonna get it. I mean you just gotta give it two hours Which you know is a benefit of having the smaller device So you're gonna be able to get it charged up a lot quicker now You can run the other outlets here You can run the 110 volt or you can run the 12 volt or the USB which whichever fits your fancy That's pretty much a breakdown of how the solar panels works pretty simple ain't a whole lot to it Here's my opinion on this little portable power supply. It's perfect for small items It's not gonna run big items for very long, but you only have that 300 watt hour battery So like I said take your wattage that you need and start Subtracting it away from the time that you need to run it for if you're just needing to charge some phones Batteries things like that and you need to have plenty of reserve power for what whether it be a laptop of iPad Drone, you know just really depends on what your application is everybody has different needs different ones You the options and the things that it could be used for are endless And it's really only up to you to decide whether or not this is the right size for you If it's too small, they have a 700 watt. They have a 1500 watt a 2000 watt 4000 watt Pretty much a little bit of everything. So all you got to do is go over to the all-powers website Check out some of the other models that they have available the warranty on them is really good It has five-year warranty so far. Everything's been pretty true to their word on the power ratings and What they're rating it at take it for what it's worth. I think it's a good little unit I think it's well built all the stitching on the solar panels is really well done I don't see any threads that are hanging everything straight I'm gonna leave a link down in the description below click on that you can read more about it and Check it out. See if it's something for you I appreciate you guys taking the time to watch the video if you have any questions Please leave them down below and until next time guys. Thanks for watching