Bought a power 1000 to solely use it for UPS purpose. Yea it took around 20ms to switch from grid to battery but my PC PSU and monitor can handle that without any issue. It is the quietest and one of the cheapest 2.2KW 1KWh UPS on this planet! Expect 5x noise and cost from APC, Emerson and Eaton with halved period of wattanty. However when AC is on, even with 0 Watts output the fan is still audiable. I am spamming DJI service on a weekly basis for a quieter firmware update
Picked up the Power 500 - super compact and lightweight. I had it out earlier this week with my Air3 and the fast charging for drone batteries is ridiculously fast. I started with 3 full batteries and only stopping for battery swaps I had a never ending supply of batteries. By the time the second battery reported low battery, the first battery was already charged. Two tips - if you can return to home when the first low battery alert sounds you can retain just enough power in the battery that it doesn't need the full 45 minutes on the charger. Second and more important, don't put your drone battery on top of the charging unit. While it doesn't get the drone battery so hot that it creates a problem, it will slow the charging rate of the drone battery to reduce overheating. Keeping the drone battery in the shade a full cable length from the Power 500 maintained a full fast charge right up to 95% charge, where it will automatically start to slow down.
Another great video! Would love to see a follow-up on this in a few months time. Purchased the DJI Power 1000 a few days after launch and have to say, I'm very impressed but have some small niggles. I've run it through about 10-12 cycles and I'm using it more as a battery system for overland travel in my Jeep Gladiator, largely to power an ARB 50qt refrigerator and for charging / powering various items in remote camping settings. The 1200/600 watt charging switch is great, but wish it was a 3-way switch to allow for 300 watt charging from the AC inverter of vehicles which are often limited to 400 watts. Feel like it should come bundled with the DC charging cord for vehicles as most competitors do, however the SDC adapters/dongles aren't expensive. At normal pricing, the DJI will easily be less expensive than competing Goal Zero / Jackery products. This unit is really feeling like it will shake up the market. Build quality, fit and finish, ports and overall shape / portability of the 1000 are excellent at this price point. Five year warranty after registration really makes one feel confident in the purchase.
I was hoping on a DJI mini 4 pro must have accessories video, but you turned to the dark side. I would settle on an Avata 2 must have. this power station is a beast.
Hahaha! I don't run a ton of drone accessories really! I've got the Fly More combo for both the DJI Mini 4 Pro and Avata 2, and the Avata 2 has those ribbed guards on. I think that's the list🤣
You said at the beginning you were not sponsored by DJI, then when talking about solar panels at 4,51 minutes you said DJI didn't send you any solar panels? That means you didn't;'t order it, as you paid for it with your own money, or is this very simlar to Insta 360 debacle???????
I might have to create a whole video explaining sponsorships and how that all works and my views on them. For any review channel or review website you've ever seen, like Top 10 Lists from Buzzfeed or PCMag or TechRadar, the companies send over the products to be reviewed and usually those products are sent back after the review is over. They don't have any say in what content you produce with them and they don't get a preview of that content before it posts. That's necessary for any UA-cam channel or Tech Website to make reviews on the latest gear, there's just no getting around it. It would be impossible to buy all of these things and still run a business. Sponsorships though mean that a company is asking you to create content and would usually like to preview that content before you post it. I have maintained some pretty strict rules about sponsorships, which has lost me many opportunities. Mainly that you can pay me to say something I already believe about your product, but you can't pay me to say something I don't believe, and you can't pay me to not say something that I feel needs to be said. Support my channel or not, those are my rules. Like I said, maybe a whole video explaining my view on all of this would be good!
@@DavidManningvlog myself and a lot of other people would class the company sending you the product for review, even if you have to send it back and even if they have no input into the video as a sponsorship. Any situation where you are not paying for it yourself would be some form of sponsorship. There may not be any money changing hands and you may not get the product for free but there is still an incentive for you to give it a good review as can be seen on a lot of review channels. Review channels make their money either through getting paid to review products, through affiliate links or through just ad revenue on UA-cam, a bad review can affect all of that. Affecting income through affiliate linkes is obvious but if you give a product a bad review then the company may be less likely to send you products to review in the future, hence meaning you miss out and that then means you can’t make a video on it and miss out on the ad revenue. So even if you just get sent the product for a few days to review and send back and they have no input into the video, there is still plenty of incentive to give it a good review and not say anything bad about it. There is a reason that other channels explicitly state that a product has been sent to them for review and that no money has changed hands and that they get no input into the video. Trying to hide it all by just saying it isn’t sponsored seems a bit off to me.
I'm planning to pick up the 500 to keep in the car to charge my Mavic batteries at 150W with the SDC connector for when I need a quick charge. I'll just leave it to trickle charge off the 12V. Looking forward to this.
I'm hoping that airlines start to up the allowable size that you can take on planes. We'll probably never get up to these sizes, but maybe some thing in the 300-400Wh range would be great!
When you say "Trusted Brand" what do you mean? Is Anker, EcoFlow, or the other companies not to be trusted? What about the US Ban many years ago for DJI products, is this not affected?
@@KannexMedia for me, Anker and Ecoflow are in that trusted category as well. But holy cow are there a hundred brands out there that have come out of nowhere to build power stations!
I think this goes like what I want and more. I work from home, so when power goes out, its moving or not soing a thing. Will this power up a laptop, a modem, and 2 screens? And if so...for how long?
With all of these power stations, that's a calculation you need to figure on your own. I wish their site offered a calculator that you could input your info and they could spit it out for you. Essentially though, you're looking at (total number of watts) x (total number of hours) = watt-hours. So if you're pulling 1,000 watts and you have a 1,000Wh power station, you could run it for one hour. If you're pulling 250watts with that same station, you could run it for four hours
I think the total USB output using both ports simultaneously is 140w or 140w max singley. While the unit is being charged up, can it simultaneously charge AC and DC plugged in items? I'd also like to know how easy it is to disassemble to change the batteries. What is the power conversion efficiency rating? It couldn't run my refrigerator for 48hours, I have a 3,000 watt power station and I won't get 48hours.
Nobodies reviews mentions that you cannot get the solar panels for a least 4 months I've been trying. DJI says they have no idea when they will be coiming. Something fishy. I bought a Jackery because of this. I really wanted the Power 1000 but they dropped the ball on the panels.
I just purchased the 500 and tested it out this week - both USB C ports deliver 100W simultaneously. You can also use two USB C cables from different power sources and get 200W charging. This is a great little feature for the 500 - not sure why they decided to leave this out of the 1000 (Possibly because it would take a very long time to charge the larger battery pack).
@@saulmartinez7179 In South Africa they switch of the electricity for a couple of hours for various regions to protect the electricity grid. At least we have not had it now for around 100 days...
"What is one thing we take for granted when we have it but devastated when we don't?" My wallet, my drivers license/registration/proof of insurance, enough money for a purchase, a full tank, and best yet, my family. So what are we getting at here, you trying to sell us something? 😅
Electrified 😂 4000 cycles in 10 years is more than 1 cycle PER DAY! 365 x 10 is only 3650 cycles in 10 years if you charge it, use it every day and fully charge it back up!
@@riparianlife97701 electricity is the same in anyform be it portable power stations or household . You're getting AC power here ,so what's the issue ?
@@Visualographer_ Any rented car, or my motorcycle, can be used to easily charge batteries, and you're already using it to get around. I did a photography trip along the Guatemala border, and charged my batteries off the cigarette lighter in the combis I was traveling in.
@@Visualographer_electricity is not the same in any form. The requirements for usage of AC versus DC matters, and the charging equipment and charging time differs. AC voltage over a bridge charges DC faster. Battery to battery charging is slow, decreases the life of both batteries simultaneously and solar charging is really slow and can only get faster with a lot of invested money. AC power from DC is very inefficient, good in a pinch but has low amperage. You can get similar performance from a UPS battery backup, but a person would look silly carrying it around.
I would recommend the Bluettie AB70 1000w $429, and the Bluettie EB70 800w $369. Cheaper and better options Blue tooth app, wireless charging for devices, etc. I been using Bluettie power supplies for Overlanding for years now issues and never fail for power. Run electric fridges, lights, phones, batteries recharged, headlamp recharges, Sat phone recharge.
While these look amazing what I find particularly annoying is the geographic price difference these manufacturers, and especially DJI impose. The 500w version may be $379 in the US but if you buy the exact same one in the the UK its $583, I really dont get why that happens.
@@DavidManningvlog I really dont think so. At best we typically see the currency sign simply changed, ie if something was $350 they make it £350, but a lot of the time and in this case, the cost become so ramped up that its almost cheaper to fly over to the US, buy something, and then fly back :)
They look nice, but it looks like the larger one has 20 amp plugs (which is awesome), but the smaller one only has a 15 amp plug? Bummer. I wish the small one had a 20 amp plug. That would make it awesome to take a big power tool out remotely and use it. (like a corded angle grinder, or other tools that just need a bit more ooomffhh)
A quick note on this one! The DJI Power 1000 can actually do 2,200W of total output. I said 2,000W in the video, so even more than I thought!
Bought a power 1000 to solely use it for UPS purpose. Yea it took around 20ms to switch from grid to battery but my PC PSU and monitor can handle that without any issue.
It is the quietest and one of the cheapest 2.2KW 1KWh UPS on this planet! Expect 5x noise and cost from APC, Emerson and Eaton with halved period of wattanty.
However when AC is on, even with 0 Watts output the fan is still audiable. I am spamming DJI service on a weekly basis for a quieter firmware update
Picked up the Power 500 - super compact and lightweight. I had it out earlier this week with my Air3 and the fast charging for drone batteries is ridiculously fast. I started with 3 full batteries and only stopping for battery swaps I had a never ending supply of batteries. By the time the second battery reported low battery, the first battery was already charged. Two tips - if you can return to home when the first low battery alert sounds you can retain just enough power in the battery that it doesn't need the full 45 minutes on the charger. Second and more important, don't put your drone battery on top of the charging unit. While it doesn't get the drone battery so hot that it creates a problem, it will slow the charging rate of the drone battery to reduce overheating. Keeping the drone battery in the shade a full cable length from the Power 500 maintained a full fast charge right up to 95% charge, where it will automatically start to slow down.
Another great video! Would love to see a follow-up on this in a few months time.
Purchased the DJI Power 1000 a few days after launch and have to say, I'm very impressed but have some small niggles. I've run it through about 10-12 cycles and I'm using it more as a battery system for overland travel in my Jeep Gladiator, largely to power an ARB 50qt refrigerator and for charging / powering various items in remote camping settings.
The 1200/600 watt charging switch is great, but wish it was a 3-way switch to allow for 300 watt charging from the AC inverter of vehicles which are often limited to 400 watts.
Feel like it should come bundled with the DC charging cord for vehicles as most competitors do, however the SDC adapters/dongles aren't expensive. At normal pricing, the DJI will easily be less expensive than competing Goal Zero / Jackery products. This unit is really feeling like it will shake up the market.
Build quality, fit and finish, ports and overall shape / portability of the 1000 are excellent at this price point. Five year warranty after registration really makes one feel confident in the purchase.
How has it been using it to power your fridge and charging other items while camping ?
Huge missed opportunity by not titling this "WATT ACTUALLY MATTERS" 😂
Hahahaaa! Dang it!!!🤣
I was hoping on a DJI mini 4 pro must have accessories video, but you turned to the dark side. I would settle on an Avata 2 must have.
this power station is a beast.
Hahaha! I don't run a ton of drone accessories really! I've got the Fly More combo for both the DJI Mini 4 Pro and Avata 2, and the Avata 2 has those ribbed guards on. I think that's the list🤣
You said at the beginning you were not sponsored by DJI, then when talking about solar panels at 4,51 minutes you said DJI didn't send you any solar panels? That means you didn't;'t order it, as you paid for it with your own money, or is this very simlar to Insta 360 debacle???????
I might have to create a whole video explaining sponsorships and how that all works and my views on them. For any review channel or review website you've ever seen, like Top 10 Lists from Buzzfeed or PCMag or TechRadar, the companies send over the products to be reviewed and usually those products are sent back after the review is over. They don't have any say in what content you produce with them and they don't get a preview of that content before it posts. That's necessary for any UA-cam channel or Tech Website to make reviews on the latest gear, there's just no getting around it. It would be impossible to buy all of these things and still run a business. Sponsorships though mean that a company is asking you to create content and would usually like to preview that content before you post it. I have maintained some pretty strict rules about sponsorships, which has lost me many opportunities. Mainly that you can pay me to say something I already believe about your product, but you can't pay me to say something I don't believe, and you can't pay me to not say something that I feel needs to be said. Support my channel or not, those are my rules. Like I said, maybe a whole video explaining my view on all of this would be good!
@@DavidManningvlog myself and a lot of other people would class the company sending you the product for review, even if you have to send it back and even if they have no input into the video as a sponsorship. Any situation where you are not paying for it yourself would be some form of sponsorship. There may not be any money changing hands and you may not get the product for free but there is still an incentive for you to give it a good review as can be seen on a lot of review channels.
Review channels make their money either through getting paid to review products, through affiliate links or through just ad revenue on UA-cam, a bad review can affect all of that. Affecting income through affiliate linkes is obvious but if you give a product a bad review then the company may be less likely to send you products to review in the future, hence meaning you miss out and that then means you can’t make a video on it and miss out on the ad revenue. So even if you just get sent the product for a few days to review and send back and they have no input into the video, there is still plenty of incentive to give it a good review and not say anything bad about it.
There is a reason that other channels explicitly state that a product has been sent to them for review and that no money has changed hands and that they get no input into the video. Trying to hide it all by just saying it isn’t sponsored seems a bit off to me.
Great info thank you I'm taking it camping.
I'm planning to pick up the 500 to keep in the car to charge my Mavic batteries at 150W with the SDC connector for when I need a quick charge. I'll just leave it to trickle charge off the 12V. Looking forward to this.
I'm hoping that airlines start to up the allowable size that you can take on planes. We'll probably never get up to these sizes, but maybe some thing in the 300-400Wh range would be great!
We use a lot of these in my country.
When you say "Trusted Brand" what do you mean? Is Anker, EcoFlow, or the other companies not to be trusted? What about the US Ban many years ago for DJI products, is this not affected?
@@KannexMedia for me, Anker and Ecoflow are in that trusted category as well. But holy cow are there a hundred brands out there that have come out of nowhere to build power stations!
I think this goes like what I want and more. I work from home, so when power goes out, its moving or not soing a thing. Will this power up a laptop, a modem, and 2 screens? And if so...for how long?
With all of these power stations, that's a calculation you need to figure on your own. I wish their site offered a calculator that you could input your info and they could spit it out for you. Essentially though, you're looking at (total number of watts) x (total number of hours) = watt-hours. So if you're pulling 1,000 watts and you have a 1,000Wh power station, you could run it for one hour. If you're pulling 250watts with that same station, you could run it for four hours
I think the total USB output using both ports simultaneously is 140w or 140w max singley.
While the unit is being charged up, can it simultaneously charge AC and DC plugged in items?
I'd also like to know how easy it is to disassemble to change the batteries.
What is the power conversion efficiency rating?
It couldn't run my refrigerator for 48hours, I have a 3,000 watt power station and I won't get 48hours.
I like the ankr 1000 ones, but this DJI 500 is so beautiful and a great size and design!!!
Wow, $300 off buying it through DJI rather than Amazon? Now thats electrifying.
Yeah, very interesting that they're basically running a special on their site that's not available on Amazon. You don't usually see that!
Nobodies reviews mentions that you cannot get the solar panels for a least 4 months I've been trying. DJI says they have no idea when they will be coiming. Something fishy. I bought a Jackery because of this. I really wanted the Power 1000 but they dropped the ball on the panels.
Please do a colour grading video about these shots in your studio 🤞🏽❤
Thinking of picking up the 500... Question about the 100w USB-C ports; is it 100w each? Or do they drop down to 50w each once you use both ports?
Great question
I just purchased the 500 and tested it out this week - both USB C ports deliver 100W simultaneously. You can also use two USB C cables from different power sources and get 200W charging. This is a great little feature for the 500 - not sure why they decided to leave this out of the 1000 (Possibly because it would take a very long time to charge the larger battery pack).
This will be useful in South Africa. We have something they call load shedding…
What’s this about Laod shedding about ?
@@saulmartinez7179 In South Africa they switch of the electricity for a couple of hours for various regions to protect the electricity grid. At least we have not had it now for around 100 days...
you created top dji. talk to you soon~
"What is one thing we take for granted when we have it but devastated when we don't?" My wallet, my drivers license/registration/proof of insurance, enough money for a purchase, a full tank, and best yet, my family. So what are we getting at here, you trying to sell us something? 😅
Hahaa power🤣👍
Electrified 😂
4000 cycles in 10 years is more than 1 cycle PER DAY!
365 x 10 is only 3650 cycles in 10 years if you charge it, use it every day and fully charge it back up!
Math is hard🤣
Charging batteries with batteries is a dumb idea. My motorcycle is a water-cooled charging station.
And a hell of a lot more fun 😂
@@SpaceCadet4Jesus I have a cigarette lighter in my helmet box, with a 100W, 3-port charger in it.
@@riparianlife97701 that's the way to ride! 👍
0:10 The word is ELECTRIFIED... Our World is more Electrified than before! @DavidManningvlog 😂
You never know when you might have a rice emergency.
You are a legend! Great video.
Question - if DJI is banned, will my charger stop working because China is spying on me?😂😂😂
@@MrEddieNunez Hahhaa! Gonna be wild if that really happens!
Electrified
Electrocentric
I’m sure in a few years these things will all be usb c
I hope so! I can’t wait for everything to be usb c🙌
It's like a little bulldog 🤣
Feisty little fella!🤣
👍
The issue with this kind of power stations is that u cant carry these in flights 🥲
Charging batteries with batteries is a dumb idea. My motorcycle is a water-cooled, drone battery charging station.
@@riparianlife97701 electricity is the same in anyform be it portable power stations or household . You're getting AC power here ,so what's the issue ?
@@Visualographer_ Any rented car, or my motorcycle, can be used to easily charge batteries, and you're already using it to get around. I did a photography trip along the Guatemala border, and charged my batteries off the cigarette lighter in the combis I was traveling in.
@@riparianlife97701Awesome!
@@Visualographer_electricity is not the same in any form. The requirements for usage of AC versus DC matters, and the charging equipment and charging time differs. AC voltage over a bridge charges DC faster. Battery to battery charging is slow, decreases the life of both batteries simultaneously and solar charging is really slow and can only get faster with a lot of invested money.
AC power from DC is very inefficient, good in a pinch but has low amperage.
You can get similar performance from a UPS battery backup, but a person would look silly carrying it around.
Bulldog dji power station...nice! 😂🤟
Hahahaa😂
I would recommend the Bluettie AB70 1000w $429, and the Bluettie EB70 800w $369. Cheaper and better options Blue tooth app, wireless charging for devices, etc. I been using Bluettie power supplies for Overlanding for years now issues and never fail for power. Run electric fridges, lights, phones, batteries recharged, headlamp recharges, Sat phone recharge.
My Jeep has power plugs built in. No need to buy this.
What about when you stop and park your Jeep?
@@DavidManningvlog I have a dual battery setup on the jeep so it’s good.
While these look amazing what I find particularly annoying is the geographic price difference these manufacturers, and especially DJI impose. The 500w version may be $379 in the US but if you buy the exact same one in the the UK its $583, I really dont get why that happens.
I wonder why that is? Is that a tariff issue?
@@DavidManningvlog I really dont think so. At best we typically see the currency sign simply changed, ie if something was $350 they make it £350, but a lot of the time and in this case, the cost become so ramped up that its almost cheaper to fly over to the US, buy something, and then fly back :)
@@PropPlanePat Yeah, I've heard of people buying things here in the US for their Euro friends and shipping it over and that's still way cheaper!
They look nice, but it looks like the larger one has 20 amp plugs (which is awesome), but the smaller one only has a 15 amp plug? Bummer. I wish the small one had a 20 amp plug. That would make it awesome to take a big power tool out remotely and use it. (like a corded angle grinder, or other tools that just need a bit more ooomffhh)