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It's kind of hard to get that excited about the Anker given price to storage ratio. It's a fancy wrapper around a 100AH LiFePO4 battery. You can get a decent Li

It's kind of hard to get that excited about the Anker given price to storage ratio. It's a fancy wrapper around a 100AH LiFePO4 battery. You can get a decent LifePO4 battery now for $399 [1]. I'm not sure the wrapper they have put around it is really worth the extra $1000 (total $1399, at least on Amazon). It's also weird their marketing material says charge to 80% in 1 hour [2] when it has a 300W max. (On Amazon, looks like it is actually 3.6 hours to 80%) [3] [1] https://amzn.to/3zzt5KY https://amzn.to/3zzt5KY [2] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0517/6767/3016/files/KSP.jpg?v=1651222797_3840x https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0517/6767/3016/files/KSP.j... [3] https://amzn.to/3xoGWBp https://amzn.to/3xoGWBp

dontreact 4y ago
Ok really dumb question but: how do you plug in a normal plug into a battery like this? I'm nervous about doing it wrong and then frying my musical equipment. The nice thing about the Anker is not having to worry about this. My friends tried hooking up a car battery to an inverter and something went wrong (not sure what) and they fried 3k of musical equipment.
latchkey 4y ago
Weize teardown review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6A1THDaeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6A1THDaeU tl;dr: It isn't totally horrible, but you get what you pay for in this case.
- coderintherye 4y ago
  Yeah, as the poster notes, it's not bad. I've had a budget LifePO4 in use for over a year now with no issues. Can report back in 4 more years I suppose. 10 years ago I bought a cheap solar pump (~$100) rather than the standard priced ones at the time (~$1000) I got flack for buying Chinese made goods which were "surely crap". But that pump ran perfectly fine for about 8 years before it started slowing down and running at a reduced capacity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - latchkey 4y ago
    Watch Will's other reviews... not all of them are made well at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCdo0cs99w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCdo0cs99w Based on his reviews and recommendations, I did just purchase a 'cheap' 300ah Chinese battery off of Amazon (AmpereTime) to replace my 3 AGM batteries in my campervan. We will see how well it lasts...
timothyb89 4y ago
I have one of the Anker batteries. It'll happily take in >1000W from an AC wall outlet to charge fully in ~1hr. It's 300W max DC input from solar (which is where that 3.6hr number comes from) or 100W max from a 12v car adapter. Those other batteries you linked look like a potentially great deal for raw capacity, though there's something to be said for having a mostly portable package with thermal management and a bunch of different inputs and high-powered outputs.
slaw 4y ago
100Ah 12V LiFePO4 is $218 on aliexpress. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804150747707.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804150747707.html

dontreact 4y ago

Ok really dumb question but: how do you plug in a normal plug into a battery like this? I'm nervous about doing it wrong and then frying my musical equipment. The nice thing about the Anker is not having to worry about this. My friends tried hooking up a car battery to an inverter and something went wrong (not sure what) and they fried 3k of musical equipment.

latchkey 4y ago

Weize teardown review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6A1THDaeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6A1THDaeU tl;dr: It isn't totally horrible, but you get what you pay for in this case.

coderintherye 4y ago
Yeah, as the poster notes, it's not bad. I've had a budget LifePO4 in use for over a year now with no issues. Can report back in 4 more years I suppose. 10 years ago I bought a cheap solar pump (~$100) rather than the standard priced ones at the time (~$1000) I got flack for buying Chinese made goods which were "surely crap". But that pump ran perfectly fine for about 8 years before it started slowing down and running at a reduced capacity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- latchkey 4y ago
  Watch Will's other reviews... not all of them are made well at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCdo0cs99w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCdo0cs99w Based on his reviews and recommendations, I did just purchase a 'cheap' 300ah Chinese battery off of Amazon (AmpereTime) to replace my 3 AGM batteries in my campervan. We will see how well it lasts...

timothyb89 4y ago

I have one of the Anker batteries. It'll happily take in >1000W from an AC wall outlet to charge fully in ~1hr. It's 300W max DC input from solar (which is where that 3.6hr number comes from) or 100W max from a 12v car adapter. Those other batteries you linked look like a potentially great deal for raw capacity, though there's something to be said for having a mostly portable package with thermal management and a bunch of different inputs and high-powered outputs.

slaw 4y ago

100Ah 12V LiFePO4 is $218 on aliexpress. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804150747707.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804150747707.html