Great deal on DJI 1000 power station

[Soj51hopeful]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CZ5RYBWW

I just grabbed one of these. Right now Amazon has it for 58% off. Watched a few video reviews on it and it seems to be a great little unit for $379. Others in its class are $500 and up. I got it to run a diesel heater in my tent.

 

[Scrappy]

Correct if if I'm wrong here. Aren't these things just a small deep cycle battery with an inverter all wrapped up in a pretty box with an outrageous price tag. These things seem to be getting more and more popular due to the fact people don't know what they are. Someone set me straight if I'm mistaken here.

 

[tdhanses]

Correct if if I'm wrong here. Aren't these things just a small deep cycle battery with an inverter all wrapped up in a pretty box with an outrageous price tag. These things seem to be getting more and more popular due to the fact people don't know what they are. Someone set me straight if I'm mistaken here.

Yup you’re pretty much right, think more of lithium though, love my Bluetti, it’s nice to have power and not run a generator. These are much lighter then a deep cycle battery.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

Correct if if I'm wrong here. Aren't these things just a small deep cycle battery with an inverter all wrapped up in a pretty box with an outrageous price tag. These things seem to be getting more and more popular due to the fact people don't know what they are. Someone set me straight if I'm mistaken here.

Well if you can wrap up 1000 watt hours in a nice little plug and play box for under $380 then you’re kicking ass. Good on you. I don’t want to mess with it, I just want something to work.

I butcher all my own meat because I want to.
Why do people take animals to butchers?
Answer: they don’t want to mess with it.

 

[FAAFO]

I butcher all my own meat because I want to.
Why do people take animals to butchers?
Answer: they don’t want to mess with it.

don’t tell the guy restaurants are just places that cook the same food you can cook yourself

 

[TX_hunter]

That is a great deal. I bought a pecron 1500 WHr a few months ago and paid almost $600.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Correct if if I'm wrong here. Aren't these things just a small deep cycle battery with an inverter all wrapped up in a pretty box with an outrageous price tag. These things seem to be getting more and more popular due to the fact people don't know what they are. Someone set me straight if I'm mistaken here.

They used to be way overpriced but they've come down to reality versus component costs generally. The capacity of 1024wh of lithium is like a 100lb deep cycle battery (because you can't discharge a deep cycle battery deeply for thousands of cyclces) and costs ~$200 of that price (as would a big old lead acid battery of that capacity). Adding on a 120v charger, a solar charge controller and an inverter in one package makes up the rest of that price tag.

For a camper installation I'd buy all those components separately for sure. For something folks want to tote around its a reasonable setup at these lowered prices.

Though I think may underestimate their power consumption vs the capacity of these things but that is a separate matter.

 

[Scrappy]

They used to be way overpriced but they've come down to reality versus component costs generally. The capacity of 1024wh of lithium is like a 100lb deep cycle battery (because you can't discharge a deep cycle battery deeply for thousands of cyclces) and costs ~$200 of that price (as would a big old lead acid battery of that capacity). Adding on a 120v charger, a solar charge controller and an inverter in one package makes up the rest of that price tag.

For a camper installation I'd buy all those components separately for sure. For something folks want to tote around its a reasonable setup at these lowered prices.

Though I think may underestimate their power consumption vs the capacity of these things but that is a separate matter.

Thanks for the info. This explains why that little lithium battery on my motorcycle has never given me any issues.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

They used to be way overpriced but they've come down to reality versus component costs generally. The capacity of 1024wh of lithium is like a 100lb deep cycle battery (because you can't discharge a deep cycle battery deeply for thousands of cyclces) and costs ~$200 of that price (as would a big old lead acid battery of that capacity). Adding on a 120v charger, a solar charge controller and an inverter in one package makes up the rest of that price tag.

For a camper installation I'd buy all those components separately for sure. For something folks want to tote around its a reasonable setup at these lowered prices.

Though I think may underestimate their power consumption vs the capacity of these things but that is a separate matter.

This. What I like when tent/truck/boat camping is I can plug a solar panel into it and recharge wife and kid's headlamps, phones, everything. We have a duck camp trip every year where we setup camp via boat and if we have a huge group we'll also run the pellet grill and my iceco cooler off of it. While we could haul and setup all the separate components it would be a big PITA to do so. I don't have this unit but they're all pretty similar. Oh yeah, wife brings a freaking Keurig sometimes too lol.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

This. What I like when tent/truck/boat camping is I can plug a solar panel into it and recharge wife and kid's headlamps, phones, everything. We have a duck camp trip every year where we setup camp via boat and if we have a huge group we'll also run the pellet grill and my iceco cooler off of it. While we could haul and setup all the separate components it would be a big PITA to do so. I don't have this unit but they're all pretty similar. Oh yeah, wife brings a freaking Keurig sometimes too lol.

The compressor fridges is where folks often underestimate their power consumption, esp with inadequate solar to recharge daily what is used.

 

[TX_hunter]

The compressor fridges is where folks often underestimate their power consumption, esp with inadequate solar to recharge daily what is used.

I just installed a 40qt fridge in my truck running off a 1500 watt hr battery. After about 90hrs of run time I'm at about 5% battery capacity left.

 

[180ls1]

Pardon my ignorance but would this run a 1000w microwave for an hour? Is that "literally" how the Wh breaks down? I understand its not perfect science, just ballpark.

 

[TX_hunter]

Pardon my ignorance but would this run a 1000w microwave for an hour? Is that "literally" how the Wh breaks down? I understand its not perfect science, just ballpark.

Correct

 

[180ls1]

Correct

Thank you.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Pardon my ignorance but would this run a 1000w microwave for an hour? Is that "literally" how the Wh breaks down? I understand its not perfect science, just ballpark.

No because a “1000w microwave” doesn’t pull 1000w steady and only 1000w total (they pull a lot more starting) plus there are efficiency losses in inverting the DC power from the battery to AC.

But if you’re asking “does 1000wh mean approximately 1000w for an hour”? Yes.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

I just installed a 40qt fridge in my truck running off a 1500 watt hr battery. After about 90hrs of run time I'm at about 5% battery capacity left.

Yep. 40ah +/- 10ah is pretty common with them over a 24hr period.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

The compressor fridges is where folks often underestimate their power consumption, esp with inadequate solar to recharge daily what is used.

I dunno, mine runs fine for a weekend down here on the coast even if I don't hook up solar to it. Highs in the 80's and lows in the 60's. This little iceco cooler is awesome though, once everything is cold it hardly runs much at all. It'll pull 45 watts for about 60 seconds then turn off for a while. I haven't babysat it because it hasn't been an issue. Same fridge I hookup to my pop-up camper battery, it's just a 100ah AGM with a 100 watt solar panel and it never drains even 10 days in the mountains. That's running the camper hydroelectric heater and charging phones and headlamps off the 12v. It's cold outside then though, summertime could be an issue maybe.