I can’t lift THIS… - Anker 757 PowerHouse
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2023-05-05
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1,491 words · ~7 min read
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Holy crap.
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I wanna take it apart.
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I think it's fair to say
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that this is getting ridiculous now.
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Anker sponsored this video
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to check out their 757 portable power station.
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And I know why they called it that.
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This thing is absolutely freaking enormous
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and extremely heavy.
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It is jam packed full of lithium iron phosphate batteries,
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outputs a peak of 1500 Watts
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and is rated for 1,229 watt hours.
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Meaning that you could actually run small appliances
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like a blender or even a microwave off of this thing
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for short periods of time.
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And run things off it, you definitely could.
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More than just that, it's got a massive six AC outlets,
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four USB type A's, two USB type C's
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totaling 160 Watts of power output.
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A car socket.
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Okay.
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Just in case you have something that plugs into one of those.
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Oh, oh, oh, this is good power saving mode.
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That's very useful.
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That's wonderful.
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Need to save my power.
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One of the coolest things about it though,
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is that depending on how you charge it,
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you can get it from zero to 100% in just over an hour.
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So that's directly off of an AC outlet.
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It'll do 80% in I think one hour.
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And then if you charge it off of solar panels,
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it'll do it in about four and a half hours.
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And if you charge it off of your car,
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it'll go in a little over 10 hours.
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So the idea being,
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that whether you're camping
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or you're more of a van life type of person,
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this could be pretty much all you need
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to get you through the night, every night.
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There's your solar input.
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There's your AC power input.
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There's your breaker reset.
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Ooh, built-in flashlight.
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I actually wasn't expecting this one to have one.
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One of the ways that you can use this style
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of kind of light bar flashlight
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is you just put it on your camping table or whatever else,
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and it just shines a warm glow over everything.
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So you can see your marshmallows to put on your stick
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or whatever else the heck it is that you have to do.
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Holy crap.
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I wanna take it apart.
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I am looking at some flipping enormous battery packs
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with some very real cooling on them, ladies and gentlemen.
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0.8 watt hours.
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So I think these are gonna be 18650s.
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That's not the important thing though.
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The important thing is the grade of those cells.
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Now you can get cheap 18650s that will do a few hundred,
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200 recharge cycles.
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These are rated for 3000 charge cycles,
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meaning your 757 power station,
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well, along with its five-year warranty,
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is probably gonna outlast whatever electronics
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you would plug into it.
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How would I even go about getting this thing open?
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Oh, super cool.
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I think it might actually be easy.
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I need my screwdriver.
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Not entirely sure that I'm supposed to be opening this
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in a sponsored video.
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I mean, it feels like plastic,
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but I guess the inner metal parts of it
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would have to be something a lot stronger than that.
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Wow, flipping heavy it is.
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Oh, wow.
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I like to keep them in good shape.
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These are great for video shoots and stuff like that.
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And this one is like juicetastic, so fine.
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I will put it back together for now
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and we will hook some stuff up to it.
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Button to power the AC outlets.
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Hey, hey, there we go.
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We got 99.9 hours left.
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That's not gonna last long.
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You ready?
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RTX 3090 gaming PC, here we go.
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Oh yeah, we've got the lighting on and everything.
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We're doing it up.
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Oh, hilarious.
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Yeah, the whole setup is powered by this thing right now.
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It claims I've got a couple of hours of this,
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but I don't have a game open yet.
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It's pulling 400 watts right now at idle
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between this computer and monitor,
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the lighting, everything.
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And it still says it's got a solid three hours in it.
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Let's see what happens when I launch a game.
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Oh, this is an HDR monitor too?
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Dang, this thing's gonna suck back power.
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We're up to 500 watts.
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Like you could conceivably run a flipping microwave
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off of it. I need all the power.
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
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4K, absolutely cranked quality.
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733 watts, and it wants to run for over a fricking hour.
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We should plug more stuff into it.
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What else we got?
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Okay, you gotta shut me down, Bell.
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Bring more stuff.
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An Aperture Nova, you say?
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Oh my God, it's heavy.
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Ooh.
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Oh, Nova indeed.
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Okay, I have the power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
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Are the cooling fans going now?
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Yeah, they are.
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It's still got 0.9 hours,
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and we're drawing over a thousand watts.
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I need more power, Bell.
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Bring me an Xbox.
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Let's say you're off grid,
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and you can't decide between your OP gaming PC
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and your console.
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It's still only 1100 watts.
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Come on, Xbox.
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Okay, I need more power then.
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How could you go through 3000 cycles
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unless you're using it in a professional setting?
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Like personally, how could you possibly do it?
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Like how many times do you go camping a year?
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How many years of camping trips is that?
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But I guess if you are, okay,
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if you're, you know, van life, right,
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and you're charging it every day,
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yeah, you could conceivably go through
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even more than one charge in a day.
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So maybe it could last you like eight or nine years,
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but still that's a lot.
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This is an RTX 3090 running off of a battery bank.
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Like think about that.
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Think about how far Anker's come
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from being like the kind of weird brand
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with little battery banks and mobile accessories,
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on Amazon to like running a 3090 on their power station.
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Well, what else?
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Yeah, sure, give me a Mac.
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I'm ready.
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Oh, perfect.
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Got that Anker charging cable.
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Love it.
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All right, I'm gonna use that Type-C port.
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Oh crap, come on.
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Which one's the 100 watt one?
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One's rated for 60, one's rated for 100 watts.
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Okay, 1277.
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Okay, do something on this.
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What does this, what does it do?
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Okay, let's get Civ going.
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We got a game here, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is ridiculous.
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It's still at 76%.
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100% battery, 1353.
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We're getting close.
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Okay, there we go.
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Like what res is this?
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Oh yeah, no, that's not low res.
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Okay, 1328.
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It's not even going that hard.
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Apparently it uses this like dual inverter technology
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that makes it hyper-efficient.
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What did they say, 92% or something like that?
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It's not kicking off a lot of heat
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considering that it's outputting 1300 watts,
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which we know is true.
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Like we're not just taking their word for it.
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This is an HDR display.
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We're running this MacBook Pro.
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We've also got an RTX 3090, 5950X gaming machine
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running there, this fricking light.
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Like that's not some fabricated number or anything.
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And it's outputting almost no real heat.
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That's super cool.
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Did you happen to bring a cable?
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Sure did.
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Okay, I'm adding my phone to the load.
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Like it still says it has half an hour left.
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I seriously think it is underestimating
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how long it has to go.
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I think this is kind of like,
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like the E on a gas tank.
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Not actually empty.
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Not actually gonna be done in half an hour.
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Ooh, that gets us to like 1450.
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It's like a hundred watts when it's lifting.
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Not much else to say other than that,
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obviously I don't expect you to use it like this.
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This is more intended for like, you know,
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long weekend getaway or something along those lines.
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Like I said, you know, van life or boat life
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is another great example of what you might do
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with something like this.
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There are some solar panels up on the boat,
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up on the top of the van.
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Really, really cool device.
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Obviously you don't have to spring
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for the super high end one.
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They've also got the 535 and the 521.
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Those are lower capacity versions of the same basic idea.
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You guys can check them out at the link down below.
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Don't forget to subscribe to ShortCircuit.
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We're gonna have lots more videos like this one.
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I'll see you there.
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So ridiculous.
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Make it hurt.
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Okay, good enough.