[Amazon.ca] GOLABS Portable Power Station, 299Wh LiFePO4/60W Type-C Quick Charge/300W Pure Sine Wave $239.99 after coupons

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Amazon product: GOLABS Portable Power Station, 299Wh LiFePO4 Battery Backup, PD 60W Type-C Quick Charge, 300W Pure Sine Wave AC Outlet Solar Generator Power Supply for Outdoor Camping Fishing Travel Emergency CPAP (Orange)
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22 – FEB – 2021 – Final update – Battery capacity and inverter test | So GOLBAS sent me my free gift of a kid’s scooter directly from Amazon (valued at $60). Being a middle aged bloke I won’t be whizzing around the hood on it, but it will be put aside for one of our grandchildren when they’re old enough. | Also did an inverter and battery capacity test to round up this review from initial impressions to final thoughts. Plugged in a Crock Pot on high and a vacuum cleaner charger, which immediately registered 222w. It stayed around 220w for the remainder of the test. With 220w on a 299w hour battery, this should have given around 80 minutes of run time, excluding any inverter inefficiency. So I ran the test for exactly 20 minutes (or, an estimated 25% of the battery), expecting a little more than 25% of the battery to be used to account for said inefficiency. After 20 minutes the unit had discharged to 72% per the pictures. The fan ran the whole time (it’s quiet) and afterwards the unit did not even feel warm on any surface. The fan stopped immediately after switching off the AC. | Using some basic maths, which has never been a strong point, this means the inverter on this test was running about 89% efficient, which is certainly pretty good. Extrapolating those figures would also mean battery capacity in the 265w hour range under load out of a total 299w hours – again, pretty good. | So all in all, I can certainly recommend this unit. | 19 – FEB – 2021 – Update 2 | Contacted GOLABS support via email to claim my free gift, as the unit ships with a card advising of this option. Received a friendly and professional reply the same day to say the gift would be shipped, followed by a second email to confirm the gift has now shipped (from Amazon). Impressive response. | 16 – FEB -2021 – Update 1 | Bought this with my own hard earned wonga for some extra electric juice while camping off-grid in a little cabin in BC. We use a Jackery Explorer 1000 for kitchen appliances, which also tends to stay in place due to ease of connecting it to a fixed solar panel. We needed a smaller unit for various other devices and for greater portability while in the great outdoors. I mention Jackery for the sake of comparison, as it came down to a choice between the Jackery 300 or this unit, which did not have as many reviews. So we went with the GOLABS as it was on sale and the LifePo4 battery upgrade from the previous model seemed worthwhile. | The unit arrived within a few days, with tracking showing that it shipped from ON. It came very well packaged indeed with all relevant accessories as advertised. I won’t do a whole unboxing description, but it looks and feels like a quality product. The unit came charged at about 78% and I followed the instructions to discharge it fully before recharging it. Plugged in my work laptop to the first AC outlet, a vacuum cleaner charger into the second AC outlet and 2 tablets into the USB quick charge outlets. All combined this was 68 watts and the unit took a few hours to fully discharge. No issues. No weird sounds. No strange burning smells. I didn’t measure the battery capacity specifically – will save that for another update when it’s had a full charge – but the watt hours being used seemed to match the battery % available on the screen, per the size of battery. After an hour or so of use at a steady 68 watts, the cooling fan would kick on every 30 seconds or so for about 3-4 seconds. The fan is pretty quiet and evidently doing what it’s supposed to. | By the time the battery got down to 1%, the AC power indicator turned off and I was only able to use the USB ports to fully drain the battery. I got down to using 12 watts of power charging 2 phones with a flashing 1% battery indicator before it eventually shut off with what I believe was an under voltage protection (“UVP”) code on the screen per the manual. I will also note that the manual is well written and clear. | Once the unit had switched itself off, I plugged it into the wall charger and it started charging straight away at a steady 44 watts. Over the next few days I’ll be testing out the inverter a little more to see if it can handle 300w. As for now, first impressions indicate this is a good unit, especially for the sale price. If it develops any issues, I will also update, as well as whether or not I have to contact GOLABS support.


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