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hi I'm Dustin Abbott I've reviewed about
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10 Blue Eddie products at this point
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along with a host of other power
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stations from other brands Most of them
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follow a similar pattern There's some
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kind of marketing hook that they're
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going after some kind of feature or
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gimmick that they're trying to sell you
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on And then kind of the basic
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performance of the unit is maybe
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secondary in the marketing The Blue Edi
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Elite 200 V2 really kind of bucks that
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trend because it has very few marketable
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features in the sense of having some
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kind of battery swapping or expansions
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or some other kind of gimmicky port or
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calling card like that But what it does
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have is serious storage and serious
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output power The Elite 200 V2 isn't sexy
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but it sure is practical We're going to
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dive into the reasons why in today's
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review So as noted this has a tremendous
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amount of storage capacity right inside
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the box without any kind of expansion or
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any other kind of gimmick It has over
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2,73.6 W hours of storage You get put
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that into perspective A unit like the
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AC-180T that I reviewed last year with
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its dual swappable batteries that's a
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lot bigger than this it has a total
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capacity with the two batteries
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of,433 W hours So this has an additional
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over 600 W hours of actual storage
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inside A unit like the DJI Power 1000
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1,024 W hours And so literally half the
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capacity of this particular unit On top
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of that it has a tremendous amount of
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power output of this type of unit This
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is the most that I have ever seen from
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anything that I've tested before It can
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continuously put out in a stable fashion
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2600 watts which is very very impressive
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And it has lifting power of up to 3,900
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watts meaning that it can pretty much
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power anything What's more it is rated
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for 6,000 recharge cycles Most of them
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are around 3500 maybe 4,000 So rather
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than giving you 10 years or 11 years of
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continuous daily charging this is rated
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for up to 17 years of use Obviously
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pretty impressive there Now as it stands
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here next to me it may not look compact
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but it is relatively compact And you can
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see from this comparison of these two
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other units that I have mentioned that
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while the on the right side you can see
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the DJI unit While it has a different
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shape it's really not all that much
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smaller And then to the left you see the
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AC-180T And you can see it is
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tremendously larger than what this unit
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is This unit's actually about 40%
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smaller than the unit that it replaces
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It's a V2 remember second generation And
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so the unit that it is replacing it is
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about 40% smaller So obviously that is
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pretty impressive To give you an idea of
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those actual dimensions this is right
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under 14 in wide It is 9.84 84 in uh
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deep and it is 12.74 in tall That's 350x
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323 mm in overall dimension Now it's not
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lightweight It weighs in at 53.4 lb or a
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little over 24 kg But again if you're
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comparing apples to apples it is
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actually lighter than a lot of the units
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that are in this class which tend to be
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over 60 lb And so again that's
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impressive On top of that we've got
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tremendous power input We can accept up
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to 1,800 watts of uh power flowing into
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it and you can do pass through charging
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even at that 1,800 watts And so in other
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words yes you can have power coming into
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it and power going out of it at the same
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time Also when it comes to your solar
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input uh you can get a,000 watts of
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solar input and it is designed to where
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you can actually run both AC and solar
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input You can get up to 2400 watts of
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power input which obviously is going to
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recharge things really really quickly
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You can get about an hour of charge if
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you're doing it that way Now it doesn't
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have any kind of IP rating which is
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something that unfortunately seems to be
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more common than not with these type
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units It's something that I will note as
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a regret here in a moment It has a
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5-year warranty for all the components
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here What we don't have is any kind of
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exterior light And so if you're looking
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for a built-in LED light that is missing
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here However on the positive note also
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missing is a power brick You just have a
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simple power cord for going in there And
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so I love the fact that we have moved
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away from the power bricks and
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eliminated those because those typically
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actually were also the bottleneck when
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it came to charging speeds Once we
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started going to having just a built-in
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you know power management we actually
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ended up being able to unlock much
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faster charge speeds It also has a good
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screen here Nothing super fancy but Blue
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Edy's displays which I'm very familiar
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with at this point They're nice and
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bright They have good amount of
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information There's kind of no tricks
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there It's easy to read and so I have
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you know no issues with that You have
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full percentage readouts for both inputs
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and outputs and a variety of different
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capacities And also you have a an
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ongoing run time of how much life you
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would have left with the current draw
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going into it All good On top of that we
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have uh more robust UPS options built
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into this It h it's rated for under 15
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milliseconds in terms of the switchover
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But what I found interesting is that you
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have a variety of different actually a
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total of four different modes you can
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access through the BlueEdi app in terms
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of how you want the UPS to function And
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one of those kind of uh unique functions
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you can set it up for is if you happen
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to have really kind of peak draw in
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terms of your electrical plan You could
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actually phase off onto this during the
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peak draw and then recharge this during
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the times when you're off peak and thus
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reduce some of your electric bills And
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so again kind of a unique interesting
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option to have there Uh it also has as
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mentioned already it does have a
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Bluetooth Bluetooth app along with Wi-Fi
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and so you can remotely control it And I
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find that Blue Eddie's app is really
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really great It's easy to use very
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functional and allows you to to both
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monitor it and then also to tweak
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settings uh according to your preferred
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setup There is no wireless charging pad
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on it But when it comes to the overall
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ports we have a pretty straightforward
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We have four different uh 120 volt
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grounded plugs here They're rated at
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uh amps And so again you have pure sine
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wave power of 2600 watts continuous
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flowing through those I will note that
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unlike a lot of units that I've tested
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all four of these plugs are actually 20
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amp plugs And so um and as noted they're
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actually over 20 amps And so that means
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that you're going to be able to plug
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just about anything into it without
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having to worry about tripping it Also
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the fact that they're 20 amp plugs is if
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for some reason you need to plug in more
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than four things and so you're using uh
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for example an extension cord with
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multiple prongs on it again you're not
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going to be running so much into this
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you're likely to trip it And so uh great
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there as well Nothing special in terms
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of the DC ports We have two USB C ports
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that are rated at 100 watts Two USBA
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ports that are 5 volts at 3 amps So 15
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watts of power output there And then of
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course we also have your typical DC
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output And it's rated at 12 volts and 10
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amps of output And so that's what you
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might call the cigarette lighter style
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um port there At the front you do have a
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grounding connector here at the side And
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the input DC input like for solar is the
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DC7909 which has become increasingly the
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common standard And I love when things
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are standardized because it means that
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I'm not having to swap cables with you
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know solar panels and if I'm using
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multiple devices I can charge them
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through the same processes without
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having to switch things up So all of
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that is great So different tests that I
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ran Uh in this case I actually because
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this is so powerful a lot of times I do
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a a separate test of my electric teac
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kettle which can pull up to 1500 watts
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and then 1100 watt uh blender In this
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case I actually did them both at the
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same time and as you can see with zero
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issues because one is rated at 1100 and
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the other is is rated at 1500 watts It
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falls between the mass capac capacity
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here And so as a byproduct I could run
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both of them stable for as you know
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until the battery ran dead And so that
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is fantastic I've never been able to do
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that before with any of these units
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particularly without having to go into
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some kind of uh you know kind of lift
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mode or extended power mode So that was
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fantastic to be able to do that for the
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first time Another thing that I tested
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for is because a unit like this you know
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strikes me as being quite useful in
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terms of a power out outage And so let's
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take a look at how it handles running a
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refrigerator for example It's a bigger
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unit I'm wanting to see how it will
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handle more of a backup So I've got our
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basement refrigerator here And so what
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I'm going to do is starting right now
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8:55 a.m I'm going to plug it into the
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Blue Yeti unit instead of AC power and
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we're going to see what how it works out
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in terms of the draw of the refrigerator
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uh drawing off of this unit and see how
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long it's going to last as a backup for
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an emergency situation Okay it's been
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about 3 hours at this point According to
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my research refrigerators will cycle on
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every 20 to 30 minutes I did catch one
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of those cycles and saw that it was
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drawing kind of at peak around 125 watts
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However our current status after 3 hours
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11:55 is that it is sitting at 93% Which
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tells me that if I were in a backup
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situation and I was running just the
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fridge off of that that I could get
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probably around 31 32 hours before it
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would exhaust the capacity of the
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battery So certainly a very usable
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amount of time And so as you can see
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from that being able to get you know
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upwards of 30 hours at least in my test
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if I you know extrapolate that out
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that's going to be obviously very useful
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to maybe preserve hundreds of dollars
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worth of groceries and not waste them
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during a time of some kind of you know
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power outage power being down And of
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course if you have access to solar you
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could extend that even further by of
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course charging this through other means
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I tested hooking up the normal things to
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it I hooked up you know cameras and
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phones and tablets other power banks On
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and on it goes Those kind of things
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hardly phase a unit like this It has so
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much battery capacity that it could
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charge one those many many many times
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over And and so zero issues with that I
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did want to test how quickly I could get
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the the recharge times and see if they
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they got up to that And so via AC I
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found that I could draw as much as 1,84
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watts So slightly exceeding the 1,800
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watts that it's rated And what really
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impressed me is that even in the
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standard mode where you're not you know
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it's it's still running extremely quiet
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and all those things I actually could
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pull right under 1450 watts of
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continuous draw during that time I mean
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that's fantastic because that exceeds
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what most of what I've seen in the past
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even in terms of maximum output in the
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turbo mode And so uh fantastic even on
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that And I will note that this runs
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extremely quiet again because it is just
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so powerful It's really not phased by
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most things you're running through And
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even if I was running multiple devices
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um or recharging at a high speed I never
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really heard the fan kick on And when
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you're running in normal mode this thing
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is basically silent It the maximum
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decibb it's going to put out during a
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time like that is around 16 which is so
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quiet It's like a a a paper on a page
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turning I mean it is just incredibly
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quiet And so again you're not going to
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have any issues with that And the
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maximum loudest it could ever get is
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around 50 dB Um and that's with
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everything running full tilt Again it's
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a very very quiet unit So how about some
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things that I like well obviously I love
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the huge capacity and I love the huge
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power output here That really is what
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kind of sets this unit apart I love the
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fact that it is noticeably smaller than
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simile spec units Obviously I mean
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having a small footprint is great and I
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look forward to future technology where
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we can shrink this even further and uh
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but this is a great step in the right
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direction I mean dropping 40% over the
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previous generation that's a huge step
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in the right direction If we can do it
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again in the next generation well before
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long we're going to have units this
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powerful in the form factor of what like
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the 700watth units used to be And so
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that is fantastic Um it it also
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obviously can charge super fast I mean
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you can charge to 100% at as little as
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1.4 hours When you consider how large
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the battery capacity is that's great
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because even if the power came on during
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an outage you know for a brief period of
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time you could very quickly charge this
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back up to where you could have some
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serious help Or if you're driving um
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they do have I believe now a kind of a
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turbo unit that you can you can purchase
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as a separate accessory But if you're
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someone who a lot of times you're going
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to be charging while driving through uh
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through DC uh it's a way that you can
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actually really really get it to charge
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quickly under that circumstance And it
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also charges fast via solar as well So
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all of that is obviously very very
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welcome It does have the capacity to do
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the power lift up to 3900 watts of draw
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which means that you know unit a lot of
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things tend to draw more power as they
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power up and that's the reason for the
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the power lift And so if if you're doing
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that it means that it's going to have no
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problem as you know sustaining it for a
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while and then as those motors kind of
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get moving and they're drawing less
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current then it's going to be able to
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handle that for an ongoing basis It can
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basically power anything So I mean
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that's fantastic I appreciate the fact
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that it has got greater longevity more
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charge cycles newer battery technology
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That's all great I appreciate that all
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the plugs are 20 amp rather than 15 amp
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That's awesome As mentioned already Blue
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Eddie's app control is great I
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appreciate the awesome UPS options that
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we have got here Um and I love the fact
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that we've got all of this It's smaller
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It's got better specs It's got more
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power It's got more battery capacity And
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it's cheaper than the previous
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generation So all of that adds up to
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great great value So how about some
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things that I don't like i know I've
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been pretty positive at this point but
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there are a few things that I want to
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continue to criticize in hopes that
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Blueddy will keep improving things First
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of all is that again units like this a
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lot of times are going to be used
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outdoors I would love to see IP
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protection an IP rating here That means
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that if it gets rained on I'm not
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concerned about that Maybe if I have it
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out charging uh via solar which I like
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to do and if the you know all of a
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sudden there's a sudden rain squall it
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probably will be okay But I would feel a
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whole lot more secure if it had an IP
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rating So that's something I'd like to
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see Blue Eddie do I also would love in a
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unit this powerful I would love the
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ability to be able to bridge and get up
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to you know something that's drawing at
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instead of 120 drawing at 240 Uh that
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would be I think a really really useful
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thing Uh there are certain things that I
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would like to power during a power
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outage that would allow me to do that
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which I can't right now with something
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like this This is something I would like
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to see improved in a unit like this I
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recognize this is more about portability
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than it is about being a home backup but
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it's powerful enough to do a lot of home
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backup So I'd like to see a few more
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features in that regard But my list of
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critiques is really quite short as you
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can see My conclusion is this The Elite
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uh 200 V2 it doesn't necessarily jump
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out at you because of some kind of
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killer feature but as I noted in my
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intro the longer I used it the more
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impressed I was by it I just it kind of
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sunk into me how great the specs were
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how deep the battery capacity was and
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frankly just how well everything worked
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The specs where it matters the things
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that you actually need are awesome on
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this next level on it Even if the amount
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of ports and the variety of ports and
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there isn't some kind of other unique
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marketable feature this is less about
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marketing and it's more about
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practicality It just works and it works
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extremely well and I think that it's a
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strong value Right now you can get it
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$900 That's an amazing price for all
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that this offers and as noted it's much
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better and it's cheaper than the
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previous generation Canadian pricing is
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around $1,600 Canadian and I don't find
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that that is as competitive in my mind
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I've often noted with Blue Edi there's
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quite a disparity between what their US
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price is and their Canadian prices So
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maybe add that to my critiques I'd like
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the Canadian price to be a little bit
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more competitive on it Maybe that will
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happen after it's been on the market for
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a little while If you are looking for a
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practical unit that has more storage
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capacity and more power output than
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pretty much all the competition that
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you're going to get for this price then
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I can easily recommend the Blue Edi
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Elite 200 V2 If you want more
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information you can check out everything
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that's in the description down below
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There's also buying links there As
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always thanks for watching Have a great
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day and let the light in
