Costco Wholesale has for its
Members:
Anker SOLIX C300X 288Wh DC LFP Portable Power Station (SOLIX-28-PS) +
100W Fast Charger on sale for
$159.99.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
gooddealforenergy for finding this deal.
Note: Non-Members may purchase but are subject to a 5% surcharge.
Features:- Keep all your essentials charged on the go, while camping, or even for backup power. This power bank station features 300W of total output and seven outlets, including two 140W input/output ports.
- C300X DC features versatile ports for any type of device. Power up with a 120W car socket, two 140W USB-C ports, one 100W USB-C port, one 15W USB-C port, and two 12W USB-A ports.
- Using paired bonus 100W charger, with exclusive ActiveShield safety technology, delivers 100W output, pumps out enough power to charge your C300X DC to 80% in 2.5 hours, so you can stay productive and fuel-up all day.
- Carrying C300X DC by the handle, this travel-friendly power bank station is 30% smaller than other brands for accessible off-grid power.
- Stay powered wherever you are, on adventures or at home. C300X DC has an extendable built-in light for power at night, perfect for camping or outages.
- Connect two 140W USB-C cables (280W total) to recharge to 100% in 1.5 hours. Plug in solar panels or the included bonus 100W charger for a full recharge in less than 3.2 hours.
- Give your devices and C300X DC a quick boost at home, on the road, or in nature. The power bank station's two-way USB-C port delivers 140W to your devices while also recharging itself.
- This power bank station features LFP batteries rated for 3,000 cycles, ultra-durable electronics, temperature monitoring up to 100 times per second, and an impact-resistant structural design.
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And zero security is fake news. The button on the top left allows you to disable BT and save a little power. Similarly sized Ecoflow units don't have this capability.
I have this and think this form factor is ideal. No AC inverter makes it very efficient to top off electronics. I'll even use it to charge my larger AC powerbanks to give them longer runtime.
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Temu has the same Inverter for half the price. There are even cheaper and more powerful setups you can do for the same price. The current best is an EcoWorthy bundle that's 5x the capacity with a 1kW pure sinewave inverter for the same price.
The only reason to get this $100+ item is you don't have to do any of this work, it's all done for you and if the unit fails, either Anker or costco will, hopefully help.
Your example has a single usb c port with a 65 watt max input and output, no 12 volt out, and no solar charge port (xt60i). This thing has 4 usb c, with 2 having 140w output and 288 Wh of LiFePO4 batteries rated for thousands of charge cycles.
Can you show me some combination of parts in a list that can actually compete with this on price, even if a lot of them are generic? cause I buy a lot of this stuff individually and i cant
Yes, there's no solar charge port but if you need that to feed 12v in, again, a $2 USB protocol board.
288 Wh of LiFePO4 batteries: No idea what the chemistry of the recycled Lion batteries on eBay are, but 288 Wh is 21v@14Ah. I am in California where gas powered tools have been outlawed and we are drowning in batteries. Every garage sale has batteries to be recycled. If you're lazy, you can go to BestBuy, look into the recycling bin outside the store and pick away. If you're even more lazy, you can go to any store and purchase power tool batteries on sale. There's a $50 blower on Amazon on sale right now listed on slickdeals that come with a pair of 21v@10Ah batteries.
As I said, you have to put this all together and if the point you're making is that this is all done for you, tested etc, sure, I get it. Buy it, enjoy it but most people are going to use this for very specific purposes like charge their phones or laptops and for that I already mentioned much more affordable options.
It's not weird behavior, it's a feature to save power, it charges earbuds and low power devices fine and cuts power when done. This doesn't have a ups switchover so idk why anyone would think this DC only (no AC plug) powerststion could be used that way.
That behavior might make sense to you but it doesn't to others and just because a behavior doesn't make sense doesn't mean others are wrong.
because they have to have current monitoring to enable this behavior, a good design should allow the user to toggle this behavior on or off.
So at best, this is a poor design.
That said, this poor design is unfortunately prevalent in the DC powerbank industry which is why people like us have to build "dummy" loads to maintain the current above the threshold.
There are many reasons why someone would like to do this.
One reason is to keep a set of security cameras powered on in the case of an outage or burglars turning off power to the house. Security cameras are very power efficient nowadays.
Get a dedicated ups?
dedicated ups for a USB powered WiFi security camera?
uninterruptible power supply
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This isn't what most people think they are buying
Yes, there's no solar charge port but if you need that to feed 12v in, again, a $2 USB protocol board.
288 Wh of LiFePO4 batteries: No idea what the chemistry of the recycled Lion batteries on eBay are, but 288 Wh is 21v@14Ah. I am in California where gas powered tools have been outlawed and we are drowning in batteries. Every garage sale has batteries to be recycled. If you're lazy, you can go to BestBuy, look into the recycling bin outside the store and pick away. If you're even more lazy, you can go to any store and purchase power tool batteries on sale. There's a $50 blower on Amazon on sale right now listed on slickdeals that come with a pair of 21v@10Ah batteries.
As I said, you have to put this all together and if the point you're making is that this is all done for you, tested etc, sure, I get it. Buy it, enjoy it but most people are going to use this for very specific purposes like charge their phones or laptops and for that I already mentioned much more affordable options.
Your end statement is crucial which is for $150 what are you going to use this for? The only reason I could see shelving out $150 is if I need a DC power supply in a remote location and I will be in that location for a long period of time so having a solar panel for recharge would be a necessity. In that situation I could see this being worth the money vs. just getting a standard battery pack. That is probably a VERY NICHE group of consumers.
Personally I have a good deal of tool batteries that I've invested in. You can purchase a battery inverter adapter that can use your tool battery as a power source. I'm a Milwaukee tool guy so I just use Milwaukee's Top-Off 175W Power supply which uses one of my M18 tool batteries as a power source. The Top-Off adapter gives me both AC and DC power. Moreover I can increase my watt hours depending on the size of the M18 battery that I choose to bring along (e.g. Milwaukee's largest M18 battery sizes are 3Ah, 5Ah, 9Ah and 12Ah; the 12Ah battery would give you 218Wh of power similar to what this device provides). The big plus with using a tool battery as a power source is the many different types of tools you can use with your battery with so it has a lot of utility.
Review to a Milwaukee's battery inverter as well as an off-brand inverter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3l1HH
My biggest hang up with these types of all-in-one devices is that the battery isn't replacable so once it goes this device turns into a brick.
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Also there is absolutely zero security on the Bluetooth connection for all of these Anker power stations. Anyone in range can turn your device off or mess with it at any time. It's a joke. Then again, if they are in Bluetooth range, they are probably in baseball bat range too.
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