Dude you are seriously one of the best overlanders that does a great job explaining all things overlanding 👍👍👍

I have had Anker battery banks and others for 10 plus years and the ankers are the only ones that still charge ( fully) and work to this day for my fishing/hunting and hiking/biking trips . 🙌🙌

I've been using a variety of Anker products for years now. It's the ONLY brand of small phone battery pack charger I will even buy, as well as usb C and lightning cables. They just make quality stuff, all across the board.

Fantastic video! I own the Anker SOLIX C1000 and still learned a lot.

Awesome video & thorough explanation in words a 62 year old can understand. Just because I'm old people assume I know what I'm talking about but now I can refer them to your video. As always, thank you for sharing your experience & knowledge.

Appreciate the information. Very useful!

Another great informative video. Well done.

Think of the Watt hour rating (wh) as the gas tank size, and the watt output (w) of the inverter as the engine size.

Thank you!!

I have been using a couple of Blue Etti AC180. I wanted one that would run most any appliance and have at least 1000watt hour battery. The AC!80 will do 1800 watts continuous and 2400 surge. The sale Price on these is $650 and I have not found anything that comes close to price for what the AC180 offers. LIfePO4 batteries. I recently found that vehicle on board 120 volt power inverters used by most car companies will not charge these power banks. This is due not only to the small 400 watt size on most vehicle but also because they do not offer a Pure Syne wave 120 volts so the power banks will not recognize it and won't charge. YOu can either add a pure syne wave inverter of a larger size and with pure power or buy a small pure syne inverter and use a smaller wattage to charge your power bank slowly.

Great timing. I'm starting a new project using a short bus and am currently trying to decide what I want to use for the power in this new build.

The sode I've been waiting for lol!

Build your own!

I’d really like to hear about the vehicle recharging speed and options for these units. That seems to be the biggest challenge for my use case

Ignore the peak or surge watts in these units. If it has a 600 watt inverter, that’s it, 600 watts. Unless you have a large, low frequency inverter you don’t really have any surge capacity.

Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 - lifepo4 is great except in cold weather, can't charge below freezing unless sustained in a warm environment. -does pure sine wave matter?

I just ordered an Anker C1000 for a Hiker Trailer that I purchased last month. I’ve watched dozens and dozens of Power Station videos - your video is the best because it was the most informative. I have read some negative comments that the Anker C1000 turning off after an hour if the DC draw is low. I do worry this could be an overnight issue in the camper when the DC power is light. It sounds like some adjustments can be made within the app to prevent this automatic turn off. Would value your experience and insight on this possible issue with the Anker C1000 turning off. Thanks for thoughts and a great video.

When do you livestream? I want to try to make the next one

Im a pecron guy. Priced right and they just work. Maybe you got a bad pecron. I have mine charged for 3 months turned it on and have 100% on all 3 of mine. Pecron for the win!

I don't think that an external 110 to 12v power supply is necessarily a bad idea. Not having to carry the extra weight when you're not going to need it off-road can be beneficial. That being said, I have used Jackery, Goal Zero, Bluetti, Ecoflow, and a few months ago I bought an Anker C1000. I really like the Anker so far. The Bluetooth app is a nice feature. Ecoflow has been working well for me also. Fyi, while lithium ion batteries have significantly less life cycle capacity, they are somewhat lighter than lithium iron phosphate for the same amp hour capacity.

I've always like anker as a brand, (and their sister eufy) and the fact that they are willing to put their product out there and sponsor a like for like comparison with their competition, is very telling. Thanks for this! I'd love a review of different outdoor shower options!

Excellent video! Going to shre with my traveling buddies. We travel full time in our minivans. I have two Anker C1000’s. LOVE THEM!!! I charge my Bouge RV fridge/ freezer, my phones, fans, lights, bug zappers, varying cooking device, etc. Love the fast charging and the solar panels. QUESTION: If I want to put solar panels on my roof, would i still be able to use my C1000's. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Have a 1182 wh bluetti power station. Lovin it so far. Only a month old.

What is that beautiful River canyon at 1 minute? Looks like heaven...

Man, I love love LOVE your tire reviews! But I'm gonna have to disagree slightly on how badly you trashed the "competitor" unit here. First, even though you removed the insignia, I'm gonna let your viewers know that's a Pecron 600. There is a very simple, easy way to prevent the power draw you reference: and that is to physically turn the unit OFF when not in use. Each Inverter (AC and DC) has its' own power button just to the right of the display screen. Turn on only what you need, when you need it with a 1second button press. Turn back off with another 1 second button press. Like turning a light on/off when you enter and exit a room. I own the same unit (and the larger Pecron 1500 brother), and as I'm watching the video, I turned it on for the first time in probably 4 months. My Pecron 600 is showing 99%. After 4 months. I admittedly have zero reference to draw from, these are the first 2 powerr stations I've ever purchased and the only ones I own. But hey, from my perspective, they feel solidly built, price vs specs is relatively great value, and overall of course they're not perfect (yes, the power brick on the 600 is a pain, on the 1500 it is built in) but I have no regrets. Honestly, I don't think of Pecron as a "knockoff" Brand, but more as Undiscovered. Manual T-case vs electronic T-case? About like that.

7:33 I can't wait till the graphene batteries become mainstream!

I purchased a Bluetti EB55 in 2022. Used it for a week long camping trip and it worked great. Ran the fridge and charged phones the whole week. Fast forward to the present, and it no longer works. It holds a charge just fine, but it shows a short... lesson learned, don't cheap out...

Lots of GREAT advice here! Especially like the first point - lots of deceptive advertising out there talking about surge power instead of battery size/capacity.

I just got my external battery hooked it up seen both the C1000 and C1000X app said I need a firmware update I did it says v1.43 now I can't see the C1000X is there a way to back FIRMWARE OUT ? DELEDTED APP AND REINTALLED no luck Anker closed :(

What I would like to see is a cheaper unit with a smaller inverter, let say 500w but with a bigger battery, let say 1000wh. I cant think of anything I bring to camp that draws more than 500w but I do see more plausible needing to power those 500w for longer periods of time

3:00 you almost got that right, a 100 watt bulb uses 100 watts continuously, after an hour, it has consumed 100 watt hours

I'm guessing something happened with your video render or the KZfaq upload. The video abruptly cuts off at the end mid sentence.

The only issue with power stations is that none of them can charge DC to DC at full effect without modifications.

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Nathan, the video is 20:25 long, but at the very end it seems to stop abruptly, no summary conclusion from you. Am I missing something? (I really enjoyed it and will take what I learned to heart, but I felt like it suddenly ended).

I will be quickly removing that Pecron off of my shopping list. I was hopeful, definitely disappointing.

One more question, do these work well with solar panels? I'm thinking a long camping trip with my lightning pickup and having a way to recharge the truck's battery... Can you plug a vehicle charger into these and get a current flow from the Sun to the vehicle?

Anker built a reputation for good phone chargers and security cameras that let people spy on you!

LiFePO4 batteries have been around since 1996, so not exactly new, but their stability is definitely what you want for something you take off-roading!

At the one minute mark .. Where is this?!

The problem with these paid reviews is not what you say; rather, what you don't say. It is great that you disclose the paid arrangement early on. I am a fan of Anker and root for their success, but for instance, a viewer on this channel may not understand that the EcoFlow Delta 2 is cheaper at least right now, has a higher surge power (2700 vs 2400), more capacity with extra batteries (Anker is maxed at around 2kwh), more UCB C 100W ports... Other informative reviews that have actually tested these point to the fact that Anker is more efficient, meaning more usable watts, so there's a case to be made, but again, these paid videos leave a whole lot out and I wonder if I'd trust watching more from this channel. Even if the intent is to educate, there is so much about these generators that's left out of this video.

Makes too much sense, folks are better off going with the brands that are tried and tested .