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0:00 - Intro and Concept
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Hi, I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here to
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give you a power station review from a
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brand that I've actually never reviewed
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before. But the FSYBot F2400 is a very
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competitively priced uh kind of what I
0:23
would call a medium power station in
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that it's big enough to run pretty much
0:26
everything. It's a little too heavy to
0:29
just run around as being portable all
0:31
the time, but it's not quite to the
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level of being a true, you know, home
0:35
backup type system. And so, it fits into
0:38
this class where I've reviewed quite a
0:40
lot of units from other brands before.
0:42
And so, I do have some basis of
0:44
comparison. Let's start by taking a look
0:46
at some of the basic specifications. The
0:48
inverter here is a 2400 watt pure
0:51
sinewave uh inverter with a 4,800 watt
0:54
surge power. And so, you know, as you
0:56
start a lot of electronic devices up, as
0:59
that motor spools up, it's going to draw
1:01
more power initially and then that tails
1:03
off. This gives you a lot of extra
1:05
headroom to handle that initial
1:06
maintenal surge and then to continue to
1:09
run stable as things settle back down.
1:11
The amount of storage here is 24,48
1:15
W hours of internal storage. And those
1:17
batteries are EVgrade uh LIFO 4
1:21
batteries with 4,000 life cycles up to
1:24
80% recharge. So in other words, it's
1:26
going to allow you to run it for a long
1:28
time, 10 to 15 years um of daily use
1:31
before you're getting even down to the
1:33
80% threshold. Always useful in these.
1:35
And I've actually found that overall uh
1:37
over the years, I haven't used any of
1:39
them for 10 to 15 years because very few
1:41
people have. But I have now been using
1:43
them for five and six years. So far, uh,
1:47
I find that these units are holding up.
1:49
As far as the amount of charging power
1:51
coming into it, you can do up to,00
1:53
watts through AC. And it does have an
1:55
interesting knob here on the front to
1:57
control AC input, which more on that.
1:59
I've never seen that before. It has
2:01
input for up to 500 watts of solar, and
2:05
that is up to 50 volts of input on that.
2:08
So you can get up to 1,600 watts of
2:10
input combined because this does allow
2:12
you to do both AC and solar
2:15
simultaneously if you really need to
2:17
charge that battery up very quickly. It
2:20
is loaded with outputs both here on the
2:22
front and then on the other side here.
2:25
And so there are a total on this side of
2:28
six 20 amp AC ports up front. It has got
2:32
all the DC. And so DC includes one power
2:36
delivery 100 watt standard USBC, then
2:39
three power delivery 20 watt standard
2:42
USBC's. It's got two QC 3.0 USBAs. Those
2:46
are rated at 18 watts. It has got one
2:49
XT60 DC port which is rated at 12vt 25
2:53
amp output. It's got a cigarette lighter
2:56
style um output as well. That's 12vt 10
2:59
amp. And then it's got two DC521.
3:02
Those are rated at 12volt 3 amp output.
3:05
AC input plug is a very standard size.
3:08
Solar, however, is XT90. So, a little
3:10
bit different configuration than what
3:12
I'm typically seeing on these units. It
3:14
has both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi app
3:17
control. The app is the Bright EMPS app.
3:20
It does have a very effective UPS
3:22
function. It weighs in at 48.5 lbs. So,
3:26
as I said, not overly portable. That's
3:28
22 kg. It has a 5-year warranty. And
3:32
here's where things get interesting. The
3:34
price tag is 659 USD or right under
3:38
a,000 Canadian, making this a very
3:40
strong value for this size of inverter
3:43
and size of battery storage. So, those
3:46
are the basic specs. How does it
3:49
actually hold up? I've been using the
3:50
unit for nearly a month at this point,
3:52
and I've tried a variety of things from
3:54
it. So, I threw all of my diff different
3:57
household appliances that I typically do
3:59
at it. You know, an 1100 watt Ninja
4:02
Blender, obviously, no problem for that.
4:04
It's well below the threshold. A 1500
4:07
watt electric kettle. Again, no problem
4:10
because it's not even stressing this uh
4:13
inverter at all. Then I tried first
4:15
cooking for an extended period with a
4:18
1500 watt griddle. Um, and so, you know,
4:21
running over 20, 25 minutes of just
4:24
steady use during that time. No issues
4:26
there. And then to make things
4:28
interesting, I added on the Ninja
4:30
Blender at the same time. And so, on
4:33
paper, we're getting up into the adding
4:35
both of those up, it's about 2600 watts.
4:37
But, of course, they don't actually
4:39
always draw quite that amount. And so,
4:41
this never even broke a sweat. I saw no
4:44
indication of any kind of concerns. It
4:46
ran very stable during that time. I use
4:48
it as mobile power for charging
4:51
Milwaukee batteries, even the big
4:53
honking uh 12 amp hour batteries that,
4:56
you know, I will sometimes use for work.
4:57
And I found that obviously I had no
5:00
problem with that. Those do take quite a
5:02
bit of power to charge them, but I could
5:04
charge both of them a number of times
5:06
with the input or with the battery
5:08
storage of this. I used it as bed power
5:11
for uh some projects and using a miter
5:14
saw. Again, no problem at all. It
5:17
doesn't even blink at any of that. So,
5:19
the great news out of that is that there
5:20
is probably nothing in your house that
5:23
is going to draw more current than what
5:25
this can put out. And so, really, it's
5:27
going to be more about getting up to
5:28
that aggregate total through having
5:30
multiple things. But, I do love the fact
5:32
that all of those plugs are 20 amp
5:34
rated. And so, you can plug in a number
5:36
of heavy duty uh devices that and as
5:39
long as their kind of ongoing draw is at
5:41
that 2400 watt threshold, you're going
5:44
to be just fine. In other words, you can
5:45
do a lot of things. You can definitely
5:47
use this as in a power outage in the as
5:49
the center of your, you know, your kind
5:51
of kitchen setup and run multiple things
5:53
from it without any kind of issues. So,
5:57
good news is that basically there's
5:58
nothing that I regularly use that draws
6:01
electrical current and plugs in that I
6:04
wasn't able to run off of the the
6:05
Fossybot F2400. I also test it on the
6:09
input side and uh both with solar power
6:12
and is able to draw as expected there.
6:16
The most interesting thing here is there
6:18
is a knob on the front that allows you
6:19
to directly control what kind of rate
6:21
you want your AC input charging to come
6:24
into. And so you've got a number of
6:26
different options there. You can go as
6:28
low as 300 watts. You can go up to 500
6:31
watts, then 700 watts, and then the
6:33
maximum of,00 watts. You could keep that
6:35
at a lower setting. And so it's just
6:37
gentle on the way that the electrons are
6:40
sucked into the battery itself.
6:42
Something I've never seen before. You
6:44
often have an option to do something
6:45
like that through an app, but I've never
6:47
seen a knob like this before. And so
6:50
anyway, uh that all worked effectively
6:52
and I found that as I turned it up that
6:55
yes, it did very carefully regulate to
6:57
where I was getting either within a watt
7:00
according to the front readout or right
7:02
dead on at the the level that I was
7:05
setting at the front. So after having
7:07
used it for a while, what are some of
7:08
the things that I like? Well, I love the
7:10
fact that we have a pretty wide variety
7:12
of DC port options. I also like the fact
7:15
because I haven't seen it before in
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terms of having an XT60 output that
7:19
could be very useful if you're wanting
7:21
to direct charge say a smaller power
7:23
station and and so it's just one more
7:27
option of outputting power from it. And
7:29
so you've got more DC options here maybe
7:31
than what I've seen on any of these
7:33
units before and a lot of obviously USB
7:36
ports there as well. And I also love the
7:39
fact that we have not only a total of
7:41
six plugs. For some reason, some of
7:42
these have less, four, five. I like
7:45
seeing six there. I like all that all of
7:47
them are 20 amp rated plugs and so
7:49
they're all prepared for heavy use.
7:51
Again, just remember it's adding up to
7:53
2400 watts. It's not each one of them is
7:55
being able to handle 2400 watts. Um, I
7:58
also love the fact of having this
8:00
storage bin on the top as noted in the
8:03
intro. It's really, really handy for
8:05
storing those cables, particularly since
8:07
early on units seem to come with bags.
8:09
That's no longer status quo. So having a
8:11
place to store cables is pretty awesome.
8:14
I love the fact that the UPS function,
8:16
it's change over rate from when power
8:19
stops coming into this to where it
8:20
switches over to, you know, providing
8:22
battery power is only about 8
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milliseconds. And so that is quick
8:26
enough that there's basically almost
8:28
nothing you could detach to it that is
8:30
going to blip during that time. It is a
8:32
is near as instantaneous as what I've
8:34
seen. A standard I've seen a lot of
8:36
times is it's saying under 20
8:38
milliseconds. Well, this is 8
8:39
milliseconds or less. And so that's a
8:41
really fast turnover. So I like that a
8:43
lot. I think that this dial is an
8:45
interesting feature. And uh I don't know
8:47
that people will make regular use of it.
8:49
But again, if you're not wanting to go
8:51
into a Bluetooth app to control that
8:54
kind of thing, being able to quickly
8:55
control that as a front dial is pretty
8:58
cool. I love the fact that it includes a
9:00
light, and that is something that has
9:02
become a bit of a a forgotten thing. It
9:05
seemed like all the early units that I
9:07
reviewed had a built-in light, but that
9:10
has not been the case with a lot of them
9:12
for a while. And so, I appreciate the
9:14
fact that, you know, many times you are
9:16
operating in the dark, whether you're
9:18
camping or in a power outage and having
9:20
a, you know, even if it's not a huge,
9:22
but that source of light on the front is
9:24
extremely useful. I love the fact that,
9:27
you know, this is powerful enough that
9:28
you can basically run anything off of
9:30
it. That's great. 5year warranty, I
9:32
think, is also very good. They're
9:34
standing behind their product and that
9:35
eliminates a lot of the potential risk.
9:37
And of course, at this price, it is
9:39
great value for money. So, how about
9:41
some things that I don't like? Well, two
9:43
of them are sticking out right now. And
9:46
there are fan covers on either side. And
9:48
it says, "Please keep the fan cover open
9:50
when operating." This is not only a big
9:54
pain, it is also very much a risk point
9:56
for some one of these getting broken.
9:59
And and so I just I've never seen where
10:01
you actually have to have these vent
10:03
ports open before on any of these units.
10:05
I don't like it at all. And and so it's
10:08
it's not something I like. I also find
10:11
that the front display in outdoor
10:14
conditions is very very hard to see.
10:15
It's not quite bright enough to handle
10:17
um daylight, sunlight temperatures. I
10:20
also find that as far as these flaps, I
10:23
mean, I do like the fact that some of
10:24
these front ports are covered with
10:26
flaps. What I don't like is that they
10:28
don't seat back down very well. And
10:31
that's true of this top cover. Um, even
10:34
on the sides on the vents, everything
10:36
just seems to flex a little bit more
10:38
than what I would like and isn't always
10:41
quite as precise feeling as what I I
10:43
like. Finally, I will say that I don't
10:45
love the fact that they switched to the
10:47
XT90
10:49
um standard here for solar input
10:51
compared to the XT60. All of my solar
10:53
panels are configured for XD60 output
10:55
because it seems like everything is gone
10:57
to that. And I always love when uh
10:59
inputs get standardized and so you're
11:01
not having to swap cables all the time.
11:04
So I don't love the fact that I mean
11:05
they've got XT60 on the front but XT90
11:08
coming in. And so I don't know why. It's
11:12
not like this is sucking in so much
11:13
power via solar because I've definitely
11:16
seen units can handle more solar input
11:18
than this that use XD60. And so I don't
11:20
think it was a requirement and I wish
11:22
that they had avoided that. So my
11:25
conclusion is is that this is a solid
11:27
unit that I feel like offers a great
11:29
value. I mean there's a few quirks that
11:31
I don't love about it. I love the
11:33
storage. I love that fact that we have a
11:36
light here. Um I hate the vent flap
11:39
covers, but I find this to be a very
11:42
useful unit that can power a lot of
11:44
things. And for the amount of money that
11:47
you're paying for it, it is a lot of
11:49
inverter power and a lot of storage
11:52
space storage capacity for that. Now,
11:55
what I'm not aware of it being able to
11:57
do is to be expandable as a true home
12:00
backup. And obviously, we are limited at
12:03
20 amp ports. And so, you're not going
12:05
to be able to, you know, plug in 30 amp
12:08
or anything that's bridged, things like
12:10
that. And so there are limits for a home
12:12
backup situation or EV charging,
12:14
anything like that. But, you know, it
12:17
does have a decent amount of store um
12:19
solar input. And so, in a power outage
12:22
situation, even though this battery
12:23
capacity isn't going to be enough to
12:25
last too long, the fact that you could
12:28
charge it at least some if you had
12:30
daylight available would be useful and
12:32
extended that battery capacity for a
12:34
while. For the most part, however, if
12:37
you're just wanting a a portable power
12:39
source and maybe you're going to have an
12:41
opportunity to charge it through one of
12:43
the four different ways you can charge
12:44
as you go along, I think that it is
12:47
going to prove to be very useful. And I
12:49
also do want to say I appreciate the
12:51
fact that we have got a number of
12:53
different cables included. The we've got
12:55
the AC, we've got a solar cable, which
12:58
is useful because I didn't have an XT90
13:00
on hand. And then also we have got the
13:02
car charging uh standard for uh so if
13:06
you're you're driving to your
13:07
destination maybe camping you could
13:08
charge that along the way. So at the end
13:10
of the day it's a strong value. I don't
13:12
love everything about it but I love
13:14
enough about it to think that it's a
13:16
solid option for you if your budget goes
13:18
about this far and you would like a
13:20
little more bang for your buck than what
13:22
you might get from say Jackary or Blue
13:24
Eddie or something like that. I'm Dustin
13:26
Abbott. If you want more information,
13:28
you can check out the description down
13:29
below and I will link to the FSYBot site
13:31
where you can go and check it out
13:32
further. As always, thanks for watching.
13:34
Have a great day and let the light in.
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