Prepare the grave 😂

Agreed!

Oh my god yes, this is too much!

Yup. Though I understand the need for sponsorships.

@@arendmookhoek4314 More like... a greed! 😁

do you ppl want a refund? lol

Check out his review of the TS100 soldering iron. The capacitor bit is amazing.

And the stated input voltage is 220-240V. So I think this video (saying 110V Only) is quite old... did you notice Marco said "...in 2022"?

Is that true for Lifepo4 cells? Or just lithium polymer?

Thats fascinating - makes sense, though. The rectagular case will tend to bulge on the flat sides and change internal volume and thus pressure. Cylindrical cans will maintain a constant volume.

@@trekintosh - for thin-wall rectangular prismatic cells, where the casing itself cannot closely clamp the "plates" together once internal pressures push them apart.

@Ralph Reilly So you did not even read and/or comprehend my comment, did you?

​@@NebukadV comprehend deez nuts

I think if you were going to use this in a fixed installation with bigger panels, you could just attach your own charge controller to the DC battery connector. The MPPT in these things is just designed for portable panels like he showed.

Sounds like a Pecron would fit your desire. Lots of voltage and wattage can be used.

Would have been funnier if he poorly dubbed 2023 over top

There is another German guy who has 150kwh of Lithium in his basement, Marco has some catching up to do :P

@@tobimai4843 just do not mention him otherwise all Europe will invade his house not just Germany 🤣🤣

There is a 220-240V model now.

DBS2300 has 3 versions with different voltage ranges. This video shows the US version. US: 120V-(50Hz/60Hz) EU: 230V-(50Hz) JP: 100V~110V-(50Hz/60Hz) You can get more information on their website

They don't. As Marco showed, the connectors use standard 4mm barrel/banana jacks. The external battery connections need to be proprietary to join with the control modules in the (same brand) external packs, and I cannot see why there would ever be a "standard" version of that.

Almost nobody is willing to pay for lto

@@Schniels65 while they are quite costly that is mostly due to politics and very little with added cost of manufacturing.

Honestly, I just use the same old inverters I used to keep in my car on whatever batteries I can get ~12v out of. The only worry is the wave type, and even then, that isnt too much of an issue depending on what is going to be powered. Thanks to the death of the analog generation most of my digital equipment eats the 60hz stepped square wave well enough for the odd luxury device on the odd old ass square wave inverter.... The only thing these things offer is the LiFEPO4 chemistry (which I can just get bare batteries if I really wanted to replace the stack of old flooded and sealed lead acid cells I have laying around), the battery charging and power management (not gonna lie, its pretty damn spiffy to not have to break out the 12v charger or jumper cables to recharge, or have a simple managed solar option), and the monitoring (which, I mean, I know my inverters, I know my batteries, the math is second nature by now.....so, kind if a luxury, but still cool. The option for graphing data is very tempting...). For the price of these things, its just too damn high for me and those who have amassed this kind of equipment over the years. That being said, the technology is still really cool and the more devices using LiFEPO4 the cheaper cells will get. And its nice seeing the different iterations working through what does work, what doesnt, what looks nice at the meeting table, and what real world use dictates is more important. However, there is still a thorn in my craw that most of those boards have a debug port, but they wont give us a damn hard data port! Screw app reliance!!! There is enough crap polluting the various RF spectrums, we dont need to rely on the radio all the damn time! Especially if its not moving. Let us just wire a RPi onto it directly dammit! Oh, and really, for completeness, however slowly, it should totally charge off USB C.🤣

They are preparing for the apocolype. They face big energy problems since the Russian stuff started... mains electricity is not as reliable as in the USA.

Started happening with me too recently.... (not this channel buy SignalPath's which was the only one I have it on for).

Not really. Basically all switch mode supplies accept 100-240

The inverter then? I don't really know what I'm talking about, but they surely wouldn't make it useless to most of the world, without a really good reason?

For efficiency and safety ratings, there can be a considerable difference in parts. I’m not sure what efficiency they’re claiming on that AC-DC converter, but you would have circuit that works better on one voltage than another if it worked for both. Inductors, capacitors, transformers etc. need to be tuned for their highest efficiency and size. Those wall switchers for your laptop may be 70-80% efficient. In the case of solar charging that’s a pretty considerable loss of energy for a universal circuit.

I believe there is a small inefficiency in making a switch mode do full range. But it's likely to be the additional components needed for making the UPS inverter dual voltage that's driving it. I can't recall seeing a good inverter that's dual voltage.

@@BobHannent not just small difference - all parts have to be higher voltage rated and higher current at the same time. That includes the capacitors on the primary, the transistors and the main transformer. For low power it's quite acceptable, though.

It’s trash

PPMs? Meh the future might be: battery power stations video channel

Looks like the noisy power stuff is in that metal cased module so probably okay..... 🙄

It doesn't matter how it was constructed. If it passes EMC testing, then it complies. Note these requirements are different between the USA and the rest of the world.

It is to provide clamping pressure to the Prismatic cells. They last about twice as long when they are kept compressed.

@@johncoops6897 supposedly. There's a bunch of debate online about this and how much pressure (if any) is required. Hose clamps are an interesting choice when some bolts and plates would do the same job. 💰

if it's universal smps, it'd have a booster for the active power factor correction circuit, bringing to the same voltage as the 230 blighty ones (roughly 400vdc)

What is a "PLUS/MINUS" power supply? Nobody needs that, because that would be already built into whatever the device is that needs it )eg: a power amplifier)

No, watch the video. He even connected his whole lab to the device, then switched the power on and off. He also discussed the blue switching relays that handle the AC in/out.

@@johncoops6897 Where does the AC come in from?

@@dieselphiend - from the AC wall socket and into the plug socket on the right side. You watched the video, it was clearly shown.

@@johncoops6897 Then what are the batteries for?

@@dieselphiend - oh FFS. You can work it out, surely?

I thought they were rave pants. Makes sense for Germany, but you appear to be correct.

Not every use case fits a gas generator. There's use cases where you specifically want a buffer because you already have electric energy coming in intermittently, but don't want the hassle of topping up gas regularly. There's indoor applications where you can't have a combustion engine running and no option to place it outside. There's situations where you don't want any noise coming from your power source. There's some general advantages as well. Gas generators are generally higher maintenance for example. Of course when talking about price to inverter output and energy density, there's not even a discussion to be had - but those two metrics are sometimes simply not the highest priority.

the biggest point is that it can be used indoors, and second biggest that you can feed it from a solar set up. you can't really do either with a gas generator. Plus like you mentioned this is far smaller and lighter than an equivalent gas generator.

@@daskadse769 "no option to place it outside", even in a house extra noise late is frowned upon, unless it's large enough so the neightbors won't hear it. Many areas have local laws limiting the noise too.

In 1989 I volunteered at one of the Red Cross shelters while hurricane Hugo came through. I was assured there would be power for my ham radio because the National Guard brought their large generator. As it turned out, when the power mains failed, the generators could not be run during the heavy rains without creating a carbon monoxide threat, so the shelter was plunged into darkness except for a few flashlights. It would have been wonderful to have this device. And, as an American, I can say that we can be *very* weird