Turbojimmy
Great for Powering your RV
Revising my review to 5 stars after working with Anker's EXCELLENT customer service on my issue (more below).I've been holding off on buying one of these power stations until I was confident that the battery technology had gotten to the point to where they were useful for real-world "dry camping" scenarios - meaning I can replace my noisy gas-powered generator with a silent, clean alternative.I have a 30A travel trailer, and plugged it into the Anker while dry camping aka boondocking. It's particularly useful during the overnight "quiet hours". It will run everything we need all night, and have enough juice to fire up the coffee maker and microwave in the morning. All with the Starlink plugged into one of the high-output USB ports. It charges pretty quickly with solar, however we try not to carry too much weight so I only have 200W panels. Even so, it would charge it up 10% or more during the day.I also carry a 2800W peak, 1900W continuous generator with me for backup as well, and used it to charge the Anker back up to 100% before nightfall. And this is where the plot thickens.The C2000 Gen2 will also run my 13,500 BTU roof air conditioner (it has a soft start, so not sure if it would start it without it). As you might imagine, it will draw the battery down pretty quickly. Estimated run time at 100% charge is around 90 minutes, which honestly is pretty good for a very compact, silent source of power. But I digress...I originally gave this a bad review because it would cut the AC output due to an overload condition while running the air conditioning. The air conditioner draws 1600-1700 watts when running on a hot day. The output on this is rated at 2400 watts. I connected my generator to the AC input while running my air conditioning in order to maintain the charge. When the AC input is hooked up, two things happen: 1) it goes to a "pass through" mode and disregards your preset charging preference. So if you had set it to charge at 1,000 watts, it's going to draw more than that if the AC output demands it and; 2) the output is limited to 1,800 watts (not the full 2,400) when you have AC INPUT. So when plugged into my generator, output was limited to 1,800 watts. I hit that limit with the combination of the air conditioning and other incidentals. I feel like that makes the output specs a little misleading, but not knowing that may have been an oversight on my part.All in all this thing is great for boondocking, particularly if you don't have a lot of heavy draw stuff. If I wasn't running the air conditioning, I could have easily gone 2 days running the lights, making a few cups of coffee in the mornings (though the Keurig is admittedly a pretty high draw at 1600 watts), watching TV, powering the Starlink, charging phones, etc.Ver másVer menos
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