🛒 Oupes Mega 2 :shrsl.com/4n7jr 🛒 We Recommend Shopping At: • Signature Solar: signaturesolar.com/?ref=theso... • Use Code: THESOLARLAB50 for $50 Off Your Order • Shop Solar: shopsolarkits.com/?ref=TheSol... • Use Code: THESOLARLAB50 for $50 Off Your Order ☀ Get a Free Solar Estimate for Your Home: www.solar-estimate.org/solar-... 🔔 Subscribe to our UA-cam Channel: @TheSolarLab 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - Spec Tear Down 2:39 - What We Don't Like 4:57 - Testing 8:08 - What We Like 11:05 - Conclusion Oupes claims that their Mega 2 unit is the bees' knees, and beats other popular power stations from EcoFlow, Bluetti and Jackery on both price & performance... Today, we put it through some testing and share our honest opinion on whether or not we think that claim is true. Enjoy! ⚡ FOLLOW US: / thesolarlab / thesolarlab 👨🏼💻 The Solar Lab: www.thesolarlab.com We maintain an affiliate relationship with some of the products reviewed, which means we get a small percentage of a sale if you click our links, at no cost to our viewers.
This is a great unit. I have one with 2 expansion batteries. What makes this system the best, besides price is that each expansion battery accepts up to 2100 watts of solar. So if you have limited access to sun or just short days during winter you can still fully charge the whole system within 2.5-3 hours.
My 1st Oupes was the Mega 3. I use it in my 5th wheel when boondocking. Perfect. I also have the Mega 3 now hooked up as my home backup. It powers my entire house. Yes not for ever but i can get a good 8-9 hours out of it. I also have a 48v battery bank (4 12v lithium in series). This can plug into ky solar port of the Mega 3 and recharge the battery. Inputs about 780w. My last Oupes is the Mega 1. This is a nice little unit also. Love the Oupes brand, customer service.
You should be able to hook 3 of those sirius panels up to it in series, that would be under the 150 volt max. You don't have to worry about amps. A power station can ignore amps it doesn't need. But Volts are FORCED in. I used to use Six HQST 190w panels on my AC300 which has the same 150v max.
Looks interesting. I bought the Licitti solar generator kit. 280Ah w/2KW inverter. It’s been pretty solid so far and can run our RV air conditioner, microwave, Starlink+tv+laptop you name it. I do wish it had a 30a plug though just because it makes connecting to an RV with a high quality cable simple.
A couple of quick notes. 1. They include the MC4 to Anderson adapter cable, so one does not need to buy that separately to hook up standard panels. 2. The website says "Tax Included". My guess is they are referring to VAT, not sales tax.
FYI - The Anderson output is a massive game changer for a lot of folks that use them in these units in their vehicles, overlanders, van-lifers, small RVs, etc. Lots of mobile/vehicle stuff is 12v DC and on most other units you're limited to USB or 100w/10a cigarette outlet. This forces you to lose a lot of efficiency using 110v AC devices, or worse yet, use the 110v inverter to plug-in a power supply that converts back to DC. Typically folks get around this by permanently installing complex and expensive "dumb" lithium battery systems with separate inverters, solar controllers, monitoring shunts, etc. That 12v/30a output means you can just use one of these units, freely move it between various vehicles and your home.
Thank you for your reviews. I find a lot of the info around these units to be pretty opaque and difficult to understand, but your videos make all that info seem very accessible. Re: the weird flickering on the screens of the units. This usually has to do with the refresh rate of the screens interacting with the shutter speed of your camera in a weird way. Generally you can get rid of the flickering (or at least make it less noticeable) by changing the shutter speed on your camera. The general rule is to double the frequency of your source. The US standard for lights is 60 Hz so if fluorescent bulbs are flickering you can usually get rid of it with a shutter speed of 1/120. If that doesn't work, on some cameras, you can go into the menu and find something called "Synchro-scan" which allows you to dial in the shutter speed even more precisely. So the thing to do is to play with the synchro-scan, increasing or decreasing the value while watching the flickering source on your monitor to see what makes the flickering disappear. Hope that helps!
Yeah, the attainable amps of Solar In are just as bad as Bluetti because of their amp limits. I have a Bluetti AC180 and found the only good way to charge it is with a Renogy 400 watt hybrid portable panel wired in parallel.
I didn't know their extra batteries actually did stuff outside of "power the main unit." Okay, that's a pretty good way to go about it, allowing DC in and out on those extra batteries.
I've got an Ecoflow Delta 2, and I'm probably going to be buying a Delta 3 Plus, but I also want a 'budget brand" unit, too. Probably even a higher capacity that the Delta units. That probably wouldn't make sense to most people, but I just don't like having a single point of failure, and I'm also not looking for a whole home backup, at this point. Literally a few days after buying my EcoFlow we had a (weak) tornado come through and my power was out for right at 24 hours, and the Delta 2 did everything I needed it to do - just the absolute necessities. When I'm ready to buy a whole home backup solution I'll go all out. With all the competition however, prices are still coming down. I paid about $950 for my Delta 2, and it seemed like a few minutes later that it was like $700. It's now $499. Also, there's many new battery technologies that are being developed. Like lithium-sulfur, sodium-ion, aqueous zinc-ion, graphene, organosilicon electrolyte, silicon anode, ion-air, and Nanobolt lithium tungsten. So, there's no telling where we'll be in the fairly near future.
I'm kind of interested in one of these. But I'm curious how long the charge will hold with no load. For me it works be for emergency and i suspect when i need it, the battery would be dead. Second question, can it be charged with a gas generator? The reason I i ask is because meant entry level computer battery backup units won't actually charge on "dirty power" when for exactly your gas generator fluctuates from 110-120 volts.
@TheSolarLab Is there a brand that sells a power station that is stackable starting with around 3,000 kW of storage or more that can output 60 amps and can be solar charged when way out in the country that has a 240v NEMA 14-50 outlet to output 48 amps to charge an EV using it's mobile charger? Is this something that can be a DIY project?
Hy, love your chanel, great work i have a question i like to play video games in pc and i liked to go camping what product do you recomend thx keep the good job(its a desktokop pc)
ATTENTION ATTENTION !!! My fine friends. I have to Bluetti AC200L and it has the same solar pattern as some others on the market. 150vdc at 15amps. Running 6 qty 400 watt panels at 24voc and 10 amps each panel, I have 3 strings. So 6 in series and 3 in parellel. Amps are consumed by the units, so it doesn't matter if I am at 30amps peak sun on a cold day ( panels are at their highest when they are cold ). But, what does matter is the strings are cloned ( so same panels ) and then you can change their orientation in degrees to capture morning, noon and sunset. Over paneling is worth it on dark days. Your ROI takes a little longer, but they usually have a 20+ year solar life. So, don't worry about amps.
You don't know what you are talking about. You can over amp and over watt any of these units all brands. It's the voltage you got to watch. Amps are pulled not pushed.
Bought one during Prime sale. The WiFi setup is terrible. Tried using a 300w pure sign wave inverter to charge it up. It kept shutting the inverter down. Would not accept the charge. The MPPT inside this thing is SLOOOWW. The app functionality is so basic, almost to be pointless. I sent email to their customer service. I never got a response.
Solar Power Generator Reviews Every Review of Any Solar Generator, should include a test, to determine, if once the battery is completely drained, subsequently after there is sufficient battery charge from solar, will the generator energize the AC outlets automatically on it’s own? In a completely OFF GRID scenario, and No Internet, if you are using the Solar Generator, for example in a cabin, if the battery is drained, you need it to re-energize the AC outlets as soon as it has sufficient charge from Solar. Otherwise, none of the Solar Generators are worth owning, because the owner would be required to be there every day, just in case the battery was drained, in order to turn the AC outlets back on! Which makes it useless! If you have a Refrigerator, NVR, or other important item that needs power, you can not be there every day, it MUST TURN the AC OUTLETS, ON AUTOMATICALLY!! WHY IS THIS NOT A STANDARD TEST COMPONENT IN EVERY REVIEW OF EVERY SOLAR GENERATOR???
Allot of what you said on Watts/amps/voltage is inaccurate. Please get to know how power is managed and calculated. I like your channel but viewers that don’t understand Ohm’s law rely on your information.
Happy to see you recognize Oupes as Opus. Opus a significant body of work. Latin for "work". Only the uninformed or the goofy mess up the name. Just saying.
Cheap stuff tends to break. What's their customer service like? This channel just tests the spec then forgets it. How about LONG TERM under load tests? I’d rather pay more for EcoFlow with solid app and personally ive dealt eith their customer service and they were passable. Who cares how much this costs if the company bails on you if you need service? All that money down the drain.
@@OptimusRay92 there's a HUGE difference between calling customer service and actually getting a service issue RESOLVED. Them praising the company for just picking up the phone is pure weak sauce. Ive dealt with Bluetti and it was hell on Earth to get them to honor their warranty but hey, they picked up hje phone right?
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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Spec Tear Down
2:39 - What We Don't Like
4:57 - Testing
8:08 - What We Like
11:05 - Conclusion
Oupes claims that their Mega 2 unit is the bees' knees, and beats other popular power stations from EcoFlow, Bluetti and Jackery on both price & performance... Today, we put it through some testing and share our honest opinion on whether or not we think that claim is true. Enjoy!
⚡ FOLLOW US:
/ thesolarlab
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We maintain an affiliate relationship with some of the products reviewed, which means we get a small percentage of a sale if you click our links, at no cost to our viewers.
The game changer is that each expansion battery can accept 2100 watts of solar!
@@TheSolarLab signature solar doesn't appear to carry Oupes products. And the link to the Mega 2 won't ship to Canada.
I would call ops too!
This is a great unit. I have one with 2 expansion batteries. What makes this system the best, besides price is that each expansion battery accepts up to 2100 watts of solar. So if you have limited access to sun or just short days during winter you can still fully charge the whole system within 2.5-3 hours.
This is super important to me. Got one of the new mega 1’s on reserve.
This was a big selling point and why I got a Mega 2 and battery
My 1st Oupes was the Mega 3. I use it in my 5th wheel when boondocking. Perfect. I also have the Mega 3 now hooked up as my home backup. It powers my entire house. Yes not for ever but i can get a good 8-9 hours out of it. I also have a 48v battery bank (4 12v lithium in series). This can plug into ky solar port of the Mega 3 and recharge the battery. Inputs about 780w. My last Oupes is the Mega 1. This is a nice little unit also. Love the Oupes brand, customer service.
You should be able to hook 3 of those sirius panels up to it in series, that would be under the 150 volt max. You don't have to worry about amps. A power station can ignore amps it doesn't need. But Volts are FORCED in. I used to use Six HQST 190w panels on my AC300 which has the same 150v max.
I know y’all get a lot of heat in the comments so just wanted to say thank you for all your amazing content and love the channel!
Looks interesting. I bought the Licitti solar generator kit. 280Ah w/2KW inverter. It’s been pretty solid so far and can run our RV air conditioner, microwave, Starlink+tv+laptop you name it. I do wish it had a 30a plug though just because it makes connecting to an RV with a high quality cable simple.
A couple of quick notes. 1. They include the MC4 to Anderson adapter cable, so one does not need to buy that separately to hook up standard panels. 2. The website says "Tax Included". My guess is they are referring to VAT, not sales tax.
FYI - The Anderson output is a massive game changer for a lot of folks that use them in these units in their vehicles, overlanders, van-lifers, small RVs, etc. Lots of mobile/vehicle stuff is 12v DC and on most other units you're limited to USB or 100w/10a cigarette outlet. This forces you to lose a lot of efficiency using 110v AC devices, or worse yet, use the 110v inverter to plug-in a power supply that converts back to DC. Typically folks get around this by permanently installing complex and expensive "dumb" lithium battery systems with separate inverters, solar controllers, monitoring shunts, etc. That 12v/30a output means you can just use one of these units, freely move it between various vehicles and your home.
Thank you for your reviews. I find a lot of the info around these units to be pretty opaque and difficult to understand, but your videos make all that info seem very accessible. Re: the weird flickering on the screens of the units. This usually has to do with the refresh rate of the screens interacting with the shutter speed of your camera in a weird way. Generally you can get rid of the flickering (or at least make it less noticeable) by changing the shutter speed on your camera. The general rule is to double the frequency of your source. The US standard for lights is 60 Hz so if fluorescent bulbs are flickering you can usually get rid of it with a shutter speed of 1/120. If that doesn't work, on some cameras, you can go into the menu and find something called "Synchro-scan" which allows you to dial in the shutter speed even more precisely. So the thing to do is to play with the synchro-scan, increasing or decreasing the value while watching the flickering source on your monitor to see what makes the flickering disappear. Hope that helps!
Currently on their website for $1169. The Anker F2000 is currently $1199. For 30 bucks more, i'm going with the F2000.
Ok
bluetti ac200L is around the same price
Yeah, the attainable amps of Solar In are just as bad as Bluetti because of their amp limits. I have a Bluetti AC180 and found the only good way to charge it is with a Renogy 400 watt hybrid portable panel wired in parallel.
I didn't know their extra batteries actually did stuff outside of "power the main unit." Okay, that's a pretty good way to go about it, allowing DC in and out on those extra batteries.
What do you recommend to run a mini fridge, two light 60 watts, and a 48 inch tv 50 watts for 3 1/2 days. On a Budget.
I've got an Ecoflow Delta 2, and I'm probably going to be buying a Delta 3 Plus, but I also want a 'budget brand" unit, too. Probably even a higher capacity that the Delta units. That probably wouldn't make sense to most people, but I just don't like having a single point of failure, and I'm also not looking for a whole home backup, at this point. Literally a few days after buying my EcoFlow we had a (weak) tornado come through and my power was out for right at 24 hours, and the Delta 2 did everything I needed it to do - just the absolute necessities.
When I'm ready to buy a whole home backup solution I'll go all out. With all the competition however, prices are still coming down. I paid about $950 for my Delta 2, and it seemed like a few minutes later that it was like $700. It's now $499. Also, there's many new battery technologies that are being developed. Like lithium-sulfur, sodium-ion, aqueous zinc-ion, graphene, organosilicon electrolyte, silicon anode, ion-air, and Nanobolt lithium tungsten. So, there's no telling where we'll be in the fairly near future.
If one looks at the name closely the O is actually the symbol for a power button so I call it the PWR UP ES.
Came for the cars, stayed for the portable power stations.
How long would an 80 watt cooler run on a oupes mega 1?
I'm kind of interested in one of these. But I'm curious how long the charge will hold with no load. For me it works be for emergency and i suspect when i need it, the battery would be dead. Second question, can it be charged with a gas generator? The reason I i ask is because meant entry level computer battery backup units won't actually charge on "dirty power" when for exactly your gas generator fluctuates from 110-120 volts.
You can turn it off completely and top it off once every few months. Yes it can be charged with gas generator.
@TheSolarLab Is there a brand that sells a power station that is stackable starting with around 3,000 kW of storage or more that can output 60 amps and can be solar charged when way out in the country that has a 240v NEMA 14-50 outlet to output 48 amps to charge an EV using it's mobile charger? Is this something that can be a DIY project?
Amazon has the one with 2 solar panels with $330 off and was $2100 minus the $330. But it has a higher original price before the $330 off coupon
Gonna need to go to your channel and look for other reviews . See if there is a unit that has it " all."
Hy, love your chanel, great work i have a question i like to play video games in pc and i liked to go camping what product do you recomend thx keep the good job(its a desktokop pc)
ATTENTION ATTENTION !!! My fine friends. I have to Bluetti AC200L and it has the same solar pattern as some others on the market. 150vdc at 15amps. Running 6 qty 400 watt panels at 24voc and 10 amps each panel, I have 3 strings. So 6 in series and 3 in parellel. Amps are consumed by the units, so it doesn't matter if I am at 30amps peak sun on a cold day ( panels are at their highest when they are cold ). But, what does matter is the strings are cloned ( so same panels ) and then you can change their orientation in degrees to capture morning, noon and sunset. Over paneling is worth it on dark days. Your ROI takes a little longer, but they usually have a 20+ year solar life. So, don't worry about amps.
I'm pretty sure that you are based in Canada, so how are you getting these Oupes units? I can't find a way to have it shipped to Canada.
There are these interesting boxes that have wheels and are powered by explosions you can use to move things around...
@@Snerdles Hahahaha
@@Snerdles😂👍🏼 best comment all day 🤣
All we need when powers goes out is weed and a powerbank and water and of course an 80s disco room with a bouncer name bob marley
This should have a dozen “you sonovabitch I’m in” Rick and Morty meme comments.
You don't know what you are talking about. You can over amp and over watt any of these units all brands. It's the voltage you got to watch. Amps are pulled not pushed.
Can this system be set to Automatically Turn On the AC Outlets whenever it has sufficient DC power to create AC power?
No
No
You complaining about a light?! Wear a headband light or other handsfree lighting while carrying it. I love my power station..
Bought one during Prime sale. The WiFi setup is terrible. Tried using a 300w pure sign wave inverter to charge it up. It kept shutting the inverter down. Would not accept the charge. The MPPT inside this thing is SLOOOWW. The app functionality is so basic, almost to be pointless. I sent email to their customer service. I never got a response.
Hi i see a VTOMAN on your shelf . Are you doing a review please and thankyou
Solar Power Generator Reviews
Every Review
of Any Solar Generator,
should include a test,
to determine,
if once the battery
is completely drained,
subsequently after
there is sufficient battery charge
from solar,
will the generator
energize the AC outlets automatically
on it’s own?
In a completely OFF GRID scenario,
and No Internet,
if you are using the Solar Generator,
for example in a cabin,
if the battery is drained,
you need it to
re-energize the AC outlets
as soon as it has
sufficient charge from Solar.
Otherwise,
none of the Solar Generators
are worth owning,
because the owner
would be required
to be there every day,
just in case
the battery was drained,
in order to
turn the AC outlets back on!
Which makes it useless!
If you have
a Refrigerator, NVR,
or other important item
that needs power,
you can not be there every day,
it MUST
TURN the AC OUTLETS,
ON AUTOMATICALLY!!
WHY IS THIS
NOT A STANDARD
TEST COMPONENT
IN EVERY REVIEW
OF EVERY SOLAR GENERATOR???
Not sure why it's more expensive than a Bluetti?
never heard of this company. will they still exist in 3 years?
If Oupes doesn't want their name pronounced oops, why is their logo: "No power oops with Oupes?"
The new Bluetti AC200L is cheaper than this. I'm not saying it's better, but a "budget brand" is usually cheaper than the competition.
Allot of what you said on Watts/amps/voltage is inaccurate. Please get to know how power is managed and calculated. I like your channel but viewers that don’t understand Ohm’s law rely on your information.
You don't know why a screen flashes when you video it? Makes me NOT want to take your advise on ANYTHING!
No light = No go
Happy to see you recognize Oupes as Opus. Opus a significant body of work. Latin for "work". Only the uninformed or the goofy mess up the name. Just saying.
Oops!!!
😊😊😊😊😊
It’s pronounced oupes, not oupes.
Dude ditched his car channel for this
We're building! Ive always said i want cars to be JUST for fun... this is one way to make that happen!
Cheap stuff tends to break. What's their customer service like? This channel just tests the spec then forgets it. How about LONG TERM under load tests? I’d rather pay more for EcoFlow with solid app and personally ive dealt eith their customer service and they were passable. Who cares how much this costs if the company bails on you if you need service? All that money down the drain.
They mentioned towards the end of the video that they called their customer service and were extremely happy with it.
@@OptimusRay92 there's a HUGE difference between calling customer service and actually getting a service issue RESOLVED. Them praising the company for just picking up the phone is pure weak sauce. Ive dealt with Bluetti and it was hell on Earth to get them to honor their warranty but hey, they picked up hje phone right?