I just received my S1500 and literally just finished charging it. I know mostly nothing about electrical but I saw this on another YT video and decided to give it a go. Glad I also caught this video. Ive been using my Jackery 300 while waiting for my Pecron to arrive and I think the Pecron will relly do everything I need on the road.
@@aaronweiser5421 still pretty happy with my 1500. The construction could be a bit stronger. The outlets have loosened just a bit over time and I only use them a couole of times a month. But all in all I am happy.
I was waiting for Pecron to bring this S1500 back onto the market for purchase again, after it made it's debut in 2o21.04. It was unavailable for a couple of months afterwards. I ordered mine at the Pre-Order price of $1099 on 2o21.08.05 and it arrived on 2o21.08.20. Yep the outlets are turned right side up now and it also comes with the MC4 connector cable and it comes with the battery clamp cables. It's the best power station available for the co$t. I'm EXTREMELY happy with the purchase
Actually, it’s not the best value if you want to charge it with solar. Pecron makes you use their $400 panels. You need a mc4 solar panel that provides a minimum of 36volts. Only Pecron sales it.
@@trainer4uu You could just connect two 100W panels in series, they can currently be found at $80 each, still much cheaper than the Pecron 200W panel at $299.
Hi, according to an email from Pecron regarding the PV input of the S1500: "PV input is 29.4-40V, 15A, mac Voc 45V, max wattage = max volts x max current = 40V*15A=600W, doesnt matter if its parallel or in series/daisy chain as long as you don't exceed the max limits." You can use any third party panels with those guidelines in place. Anyone saying you are forced to use Pecron panels if lying of spreading FUD. I use two BougeRV 180W 12V 5bb panels in series and it works great. Pass through while charging (free electric for the fridge) and recharges in about 4 hours. Hope that helps. Newpowa panels would also work great, but BougeRV had a better deal.
Hello, Im wanting to use the Bouge RV/Newpowa panels also, do I need a charge control or what adapters would I use, so frustrating being a newbie and cant seem to get any timely understanding or answers. Is there any videos to show how to do this? thank you
@@camarawlong the controler is built into the pecron so you just plug the solar panels into the unit. This is a decent video that shows you how to setup panels with a portable solar "generator" th-cam.com/video/2vfcxmYMD5g/w-d-xo.html
One of the possible reasons for the upside down plugs is this....many chargers are rectangular, with their length below the plugs. If too long, it might be unable to plug in if on the table if the plugs were not upside down. I have one of these, but it was under 600 on sale...great deal.
My 1 cyl GEN runs at 1400 watt and peak at 2000. 4 + hours on 1.5 gal of regular gas. Now at 5 solar panels and 3 1000 CCA AMG Glass Cell Battery(s). Power? I got EVERYTHING: DVD , INTERNET, WI FI AND HEAT / light too...
they are upside down for safety if the plug gets slightly pulled out exposing the terminals and something were to drop and arch those two terminals together it would first hit the ground instead since its upside down
Outlets are placed upside down like this for safety reasons. If you where to place/ drop something that gets down to the plugs. It wouldn't end up shorting the power leads together and running the risk of fire or worst.
I have heard this BS for over 30 years. I was in the power generation and distribution field and a very few knobheads insisted on outlets being upside down. In my travels, the only time that I ever saw a spark from shorting a half plugged in cord was when I would take strands of old fashioned Christmas tree tinsel and lay a strand across the 2 blades. I was 7 years old in the late 1950's and my mom was horrified when I showed her. I have owned commercial buildings, apartment houses and single family rental homes for 35 years and never once had a fire or arc from a 120 volt receptacle installed with the ground on the bottom ''smiley face'' style. My maintenance people replaced thousands of outlets over the years mostly because older ones lost their spring tension and would not grip the plug prongs. If you can cite an instance where a ''right side up'' outlet caused an arc or fire, I would appreciate hearing this.
I ran a generator without pure sinewave for weeks during hurricane charley in florida and never damaged anything i plugged into it, including my microwave. I think the new solid state generators dont damage appliances and computers like the old analog generators did.
I was waiting for Pecron to bring this back onto the market for purchase again, after it made it's debut in 2o21.04. It was unavailable for a couple of months afterwards. I ordered mine at the Pre-Order price of $1099 on 2o21.08.05 and it arrived on 2o21.08.20. Yep the outlets are turned right side up and it also comes with the MC4 connector cable. It's the best power station available for the co$t. I'm EXTREMELY happy with the purchase.
Actually, residential codes in many municipality's changed gradually from 1990's to early 2000's to put the ground on top. Before that it was easier to break the ground because poorly spaced electrodes were not able to keep a plug in the receptacle. Consequently the plug would pivot on the ground as it lost it's battle with gravity and the constant yanking and break the ground. Many people would continue to use their devices any way. Only a few instances of fire and injury were enough to get the receptacles inverted to remedy this situation. So yes, OCD and living partially under a rock for the last 15 years were enough to enable you to make that erroneous observation
Try this as a test set up a skill saw and a portable panel see if it can do usable numbers of cuts and stay topped off. I'm sick of loud generators that idle for 20 minutes before making 6or 7cuts
Watts is just Amps * volts, so it isn’t really accurate to say this thing draws more amps than watts, or more watts than amps as they are directly related. Watts would just be volts * amps.
Those plug-ins are the RIGHT WAY UP. The earth pin is MEANT to be at the top, so if you drop something metallic and the plug isn't all the way in, it hits the ground pin first, instead of a live pin.
Wrong, DOWN so that when you're pulling the plug your index finger doesn't risk coming in contact with the positive and instead you only risk coming in contact with the ground. Doesn't matter though, electrical code allows for up/down/sideways.
Nice bang for the buck and lot of power for the foot print, but looks under designed and introduced to the market on a big rush. I dislike the connector ports, the medusa connectors, the lack of MPPT charge controller and the design looks plastique cheap. Plus, AC and 12v heavy bricks with noisy fans.
I seem somewhere that the S1500 has to have a maximum amount of solar power in order to charge it. Is that true? I only have one 100w solar panel and I'm concerned that this isn't enough to charge it.
Will this particular unit power a 1500 watt electric space heater? If so, for how long? What if i set the heater to like 900 or 1200 watts - how long would the heater run?
I am nowhere close to having an understanding of electrical devices.....did i hear you say you could run these units "in tandum"? As in i could buy two of these and in effect, turn the two into one double-powered unit? I'd have 3000 watts to play with? Sorry for all the questions but i've saved a bit of money towards some type of power outage solution. Ideally, I'd like to run a 6000 BTU room AC, cool my small area, turn off the AC then power my windows desktop PC for 'several days' :) I just don't want to buy gas and use an old school gen - unless i have to. Any advice or suggestions from anyone here would be nice. Cheers!
You can't run 2 of these power stations (or any power station for that matter) in parallel, as in connecting the AC outlets with each other for twice the power. The 2 inverters generate A/C (alternating current) at 60 Hz (cycles per second), and there is no way to synchronize them. You would certainly destroy both units if you attempt to connect their 110V outlets. Your room AC wou; need to run on one unit and your computers on the other. Also, even a small 6000 BTU room air conditioner would deplete this power station in 2-3 hours. A desktop PC will draw maybe 150W (including the monitor), so you can expect 12 hours from one of these 1461 Wh (usable capacity is ~85% of the battery capacity). A laptop should be able to run for "several days" on 2 of these units if you sweat it out and don't run the A/C. In conclusion - for a multi-day backup you'd either get a gas-powered generator or shell out a few thousand dollars for a much larger battery.
No, it won't start the furnace blower motor without tripping. The starting amps are too high. Your furnace circuit breaker is probably 20 amps while most other house outlets are 15 amps. Besides, 1500 watt hours won't run that furnace for any decent length of time.
Hello, thank you for your review, Im intrigued by the E1500 and would like to purchase, but being a NEWBIE to solar in these challenging times, I don't want to be limited to their solar panels (very expensive) I would prefer to use Bougrv or Newpowa panels, more cost effective. Could you show how to set this up and what would be needed to do this, Ive been so frustrated, cant seem to get answers or even know how to do this, Im sure many people out their that don't have this understanding to put power stations and panels together would VERY MUCH APPRECIATE. I know I sure could use some help here TOO. Much appreciated more than you know.
The S1500 is now coming with a solar cable adaptor that goes into their aviation plug that goes into the Pecron. And right now there is a MASSIVE deal on it, I think it is only $560 for the S1500F!! I think the solar cable adaptor is called an mc4 to 4-core aviation plug.
I was wondering if u can help me Jason, Have A Dell PowerEdge R910 4-Bay SFF 4x L7555 1.87GHz 16GB RAM PERC H700 idrac 6 Gen 1, that I got with stimulus money, I am trying to find A gpu that will be powered by the slot, but the problem I have is the slot is to small, the one that I am thinking of using ASUS GT 710 but I do not think that is enough power, I do plan on upgrading the ram & storage
Can the Pecron use the same solar panels that come with the Jackery 1500? I don't know how universal the connections between these power sources and different brands of solar panels...
No because you need a minimum of 36 volts coming from the solar panel and the solar panel needs to have a mc4 connector in order to use the mc4 to 4 pin aviation cable the Pecron uses to charge from solar. Pecron configured it so that you have to buy their $400 solar panels.
Basically yes, but it could be thet the included charging brick can't handle the generator output if it's not a clean sine wave. Also, it would be rather wasteful to use a 4000W generator to feed a 400W charging adapter.
@@QuantumQuibbles thanks for your response so I won't be able to meet my demands with this generator, because I will need well more than 3 40 w bulb to satisfy my needs do you have a better solution or. Recommendation?
There is a huge problem with Pecron. You can only solar charge with their solar panels that cost over $400!! In order to solar charge, you need a minimum of 36 volts and the solar panel needs MC4 connectors running from it. Pecron uses a MC4 to 4 pin aviation cable. Try finding a 36 volt mc4 solar panel.
Bought one, exactly 1 month to the day I got it, the computer board gave up the ghost, Pecron told me to send it to there repair company, DON'T BUY THIS TURD ! pay a little more and get a name brand like a jackery or other name brand ( live and learn! I'm out $500 ,don't get screwed!).
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I just received my S1500 and literally just finished charging it. I know mostly nothing about electrical but I saw this on another YT video and decided to give it a go. Glad I also caught this video. Ive been using my Jackery 300 while waiting for my Pecron to arrive and I think the Pecron will relly do everything I need on the road.
Any updates????
@@aaronweiser5421 still pretty happy with my 1500. The construction could be a bit stronger. The outlets have loosened just a bit over time and I only use them a couole of times a month. But all in all I am happy.
@@judivowell5748thanku sir
I was waiting for Pecron to bring this S1500 back onto the market for purchase again, after it made it's debut in 2o21.04. It was unavailable for a couple of months afterwards. I ordered mine at the Pre-Order price of $1099 on 2o21.08.05 and it arrived on 2o21.08.20. Yep the outlets are turned right side up now and it also comes with the MC4 connector cable and it comes with the battery clamp cables. It's the best power station available for the co$t. I'm EXTREMELY happy with the purchase
Actually, it’s not the best value if you want to charge it with solar. Pecron makes you use their $400 panels. You need a mc4 solar panel that provides a minimum of 36volts. Only Pecron sales it.
@@trainer4uu you are not forced to use their panels, see my other comment, as long as you do not exceed the max voltage you are fine.
@@trainer4uu You could just connect two 100W panels in series, they can currently be found at $80 each, still much cheaper than the Pecron 200W panel at $299.
Hi, according to an email from Pecron regarding the PV input of the S1500: "PV input is 29.4-40V, 15A, mac Voc 45V, max wattage = max volts x max current = 40V*15A=600W, doesnt matter if its parallel or in series/daisy chain as long as you don't exceed the max limits." You can use any third party panels with those guidelines in place. Anyone saying you are forced to use Pecron panels if lying of spreading FUD. I use two BougeRV 180W 12V 5bb panels in series and it works great. Pass through while charging (free electric for the fridge) and recharges in about 4 hours. Hope that helps. Newpowa panels would also work great, but BougeRV had a better deal.
Hello, Im wanting to use the Bouge RV/Newpowa panels also, do I need a charge control or what adapters would I use, so frustrating being a newbie and cant seem to get any timely understanding or answers. Is there any videos to show how to do this? thank you
@@camarawlong the controler is built into the pecron so you just plug the solar panels into the unit. This is a decent video that shows you how to setup panels with a portable solar "generator" th-cam.com/video/2vfcxmYMD5g/w-d-xo.html
For upside down recepticles, it is common practice to have them upside down to easily indicate that they are switch controlled. That's all.
One of the possible reasons for the upside down plugs is this....many chargers are rectangular, with their length below the plugs. If too long, it might be unable to plug in if on the table if the plugs were not upside down. I have one of these, but it was under 600 on sale...great deal.
Sometimes they put them upside down to accommodate large wall adapters so that they fit or don't hit the table
Jason, I think this review was just up your alley. I think it fed into your need to want to try and break things, anyway really good review well done!
My 1 cyl GEN runs at 1400 watt and peak at 2000. 4 + hours on 1.5 gal of regular gas. Now at 5 solar panels and 3 1000 CCA AMG Glass Cell Battery(s). Power? I got EVERYTHING: DVD , INTERNET, WI FI AND HEAT / light too...
Hospital outlet wiring code is ground on top! Because....gravity does not go up! Any conductor falls on the ground first.
they are upside down for safety if the plug gets slightly pulled out exposing the terminals and something were to drop and arch those two terminals together it would first hit the ground instead since its upside down
Drill holes on handle, only if handle is hollow into body, use duck tape to cover holes in rain.
Outlets are placed upside down like this for safety reasons. If you where to place/ drop something that gets down to the plugs. It wouldn't end up shorting the power leads together and running the risk of fire or worst.
I have heard this BS for over 30 years. I was in the power generation and distribution field and a very few knobheads insisted on outlets being upside down. In my travels, the only time that I ever saw a spark from shorting a half plugged in cord was when I would take strands of old fashioned Christmas tree tinsel and lay a strand across the 2 blades. I was 7 years old in the late 1950's and my mom was horrified when I showed her.
I have owned commercial buildings, apartment houses and single family rental homes for 35 years and never once had a fire or arc from a 120 volt receptacle installed with the ground on the bottom ''smiley face'' style. My maintenance people replaced thousands of outlets over the years mostly because older ones lost their spring tension and would not grip the plug prongs. If you can cite an instance where a ''right side up'' outlet caused an arc or fire, I would appreciate hearing this.
Sounds like you need to ad a few dedicated 20amp circuits in your garage.
Can you please do a video on charging this your pecron with solar because I’m having trouble Choosing a solar panel that’ll actually charge mine
That’s the problem..you have to buy their $400 panels. You need a minimum of 36volts coming from a solar panel with mc4 connectors.
I'm using it to power my DJ System 💪. So far so good. I can do gigs in the middle of nowhere.
I ran a generator without pure sinewave for weeks during hurricane charley in florida and never damaged anything i plugged into it, including my microwave. I think the new solid state generators dont damage appliances and computers like the old analog generators did.
Love the layout of the video! Keep up the good work!
I forgot to mention they turned the outlets right side up.
I was waiting for Pecron to bring this back onto the market for purchase again, after it made it's debut in 2o21.04. It was unavailable for a couple of months afterwards. I ordered mine at the Pre-Order price of $1099 on 2o21.08.05 and it arrived on 2o21.08.20. Yep the outlets are turned right side up and it also comes with the MC4 connector cable. It's the best power station available for the co$t. I'm EXTREMELY happy with the purchase.
Actually, residential codes in many municipality's changed gradually from 1990's to early 2000's to put the ground on top.
Before that it was easier to break the ground because poorly spaced electrodes were not able to keep a plug in the receptacle. Consequently the plug would pivot on the ground as it lost it's battle with gravity and the constant yanking and break the ground.
Many people would continue to use their devices any way. Only a few instances of fire and injury were enough to get the receptacles inverted to remedy this situation.
So yes, OCD and living partially under a rock for the last 15 years were enough to enable you to make that erroneous observation
Try this as a test set up a skill saw and a portable panel see if it can do usable numbers of cuts and stay topped off. I'm sick of loud generators that idle for 20 minutes before making 6or 7cuts
Watts is just Amps * volts, so it isn’t really accurate to say this thing draws more amps than watts, or more watts than amps as they are directly related. Watts would just be volts * amps.
Who needs this much power? Everyone does. 1500 w is not much when you start plugging in appliances that need high watts.
STILL WAITING ORDERED AND SUPPORTED IN MID JUNE (SIGH)
2023 - walmart sells one of these now for only $500!!!
Does Pecron sell a much more powerful unit today that might be in the $1000 plus range?
I charge mine out side when I can. ( keeps it cool)
Those plug-ins are the RIGHT WAY UP. The earth pin is MEANT to be at the top, so if you drop something metallic and the plug isn't all the way in, it hits the ground pin first, instead of a live pin.
Wrong, DOWN so that when you're pulling the plug your index finger doesn't risk coming in contact with the positive and instead you only risk coming in contact with the ground. Doesn't matter though, electrical code allows for up/down/sideways.
They are ground down for code where i live in the states.
My actual thoughts: Please don’t ever cut anything with the……….aaaand he’s cutting.
these do charge with modified ac inverters like the Powerdrive pd750
But if you don't have 220 at home... That 3.5 hr. charge does go out the sitting on 110... Travel trailer pole.
Nice bang for the buck and lot of power for the foot print, but looks under designed and introduced to the market on a big rush.
I dislike the connector ports, the medusa connectors, the lack of MPPT charge controller and the design looks plastique cheap.
Plus, AC and 12v heavy bricks with noisy fans.
I have the pecron 1500 I need the solar cable what kind do I need to get please and do I need a 200 watt panel
I seem somewhere that the S1500 has to have a maximum amount of solar power in order to charge it. Is that true? I only have one 100w solar panel and I'm concerned that this isn't enough to charge it.
My charger now after a year stops and starts
Will this particular unit power a 1500 watt electric space heater? If so, for how long? What if i set the heater to like 900 or 1200 watts - how long would the heater run?
At 1451 Wh and 85% efficiency, a 1500 W space heater would run for about 50 minutes. At 900 Watts, 1 hr 23 min.
what about using the pecron below 32 degrees ?
Cool video thanks.
Do they ever have proper 230v?
I am nowhere close to having an understanding of electrical devices.....did i hear you say you could run these units "in tandum"? As in i could buy two of these and in effect, turn the two into one double-powered unit? I'd have 3000 watts to play with? Sorry for all the questions but i've saved a bit of money towards some type of power outage solution.
Ideally, I'd like to run a 6000 BTU room AC, cool my small area, turn off the AC then power my windows desktop PC for 'several days' :)
I just don't want to buy gas and use an old school gen - unless i have to.
Any advice or suggestions from anyone here would be nice. Cheers!
You can't run 2 of these power stations (or any power station for that matter) in parallel, as in connecting the AC outlets with each other for twice the power. The 2 inverters generate A/C (alternating current) at 60 Hz (cycles per second), and there is no way to synchronize them. You would certainly destroy both units if you attempt to connect their 110V outlets. Your room AC wou; need to run on one unit and your computers on the other. Also, even a small 6000 BTU room air conditioner would deplete this power station in 2-3 hours. A desktop PC will draw maybe 150W (including the monitor), so you can expect 12 hours from one of these 1461 Wh (usable capacity is ~85% of the battery capacity). A laptop should be able to run for "several days" on 2 of these units if you sweat it out and don't run the A/C. In conclusion - for a multi-day backup you'd either get a gas-powered generator or shell out a few thousand dollars for a much larger battery.
I'm more concerned with the furnace during the winter...not sure whether this unit can power a gas furnace.
No, it won't start the furnace blower motor without tripping. The starting amps are too high. Your furnace circuit breaker is probably 20 amps while most other house outlets are 15 amps. Besides, 1500 watt hours won't run that furnace for any decent length of time.
Nice this good video
6:21 No. No, it is not OK.
Hello, thank you for your review, Im intrigued by the E1500 and would like to purchase, but being a NEWBIE to solar in these challenging times, I don't want to be limited to their solar panels (very expensive) I would prefer to use Bougrv or Newpowa panels, more cost effective. Could you show how to set this up and what would be needed to do this, Ive been so frustrated, cant seem to get answers or even know how to do this, Im sure many people out their that don't have this understanding to put power stations and panels together would VERY MUCH APPRECIATE. I know I sure could use some help here TOO. Much appreciated more than you know.
I meant S1500
The S1500 is now coming with a solar cable adaptor that goes into their aviation plug that goes into the Pecron. And right now there is a MASSIVE deal on it, I think it is only $560 for the S1500F!!
I think the solar cable adaptor is called an mc4 to 4-core aviation plug.
I do.. Probably More
P = U*I
Watts = volts times amps
I was wondering if u can help me Jason, Have A Dell PowerEdge R910 4-Bay SFF 4x L7555 1.87GHz 16GB RAM PERC H700 idrac 6 Gen 1, that I got with stimulus money, I am trying to find A gpu that will be powered by the slot, but the problem I have is the slot is to small, the one that I am thinking of using ASUS GT 710 but I do not think that is enough power, I do plan on upgrading the ram & storage
Can it run a shop vac?
You said that it only powers a c-pap 36 hours, I think my c-pap machine draws only 8 watts, so you're saying it will last only 4 nights?
It'll last longer if you charge it in the day. Js
Going to burn up your electric motors if you keep under amping them like that.
tried to order but they are out of stock. Help
STILL WAITING
Can the Pecron use the same solar panels that come with the Jackery 1500? I don't know how universal the connections between these power sources and different brands of solar panels...
No because you need a minimum of 36 volts coming from the solar panel and the solar panel needs to have a mc4 connector in order to use the mc4 to 4 pin aviation cable the Pecron uses to charge from solar. Pecron configured it so that you have to buy their $400 solar panels.
@@trainer4uu Thanks. That sucks, if true. Doesn't Harbor Freight sell solar panels that have adaptors for both Pecron and Jackery?
plug a ground in into the ground... what witchery is this?!
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What is the sine wave pattern like on the output after all its easy to fry electronics if its not full sine wave?
Hobotech just did a review - this thins is better than a jackery 1500 in efficency and stuff and half the price!
Modified Sinewave can degrade or mess up sensitive electronics potentially
Can anyone advise whether it's safe to charge this S1500 with a conventional 4000w gas generator?
Basically yes, but it could be thet the included charging brick can't handle the generator output if it's not a clean sine wave. Also, it would be rather wasteful to use a 4000W generator to feed a 400W charging adapter.
Dryer time ?
Please do a review of the pecron P600!! I can't find any reviews of that model anywhere yet
Can it be available in India
I have a chicken farm and on the topic of lights I would like to kn how many 40w lights can I run for a 12 hours night with this generator ?
Well 3x40W=120W which, after running for 12 hours, would theoretically draw 1440Wh of battery.
@@QuantumQuibbles thanks for your response so I won't be able to meet my demands with this generator, because I will need well more than 3 40 w bulb to satisfy my needs do you have a better solution or. Recommendation?
@@intertwinedmpz8679 maybe a bluetti eb 240 if you don't need more than 1000 watt ac inverter
There is a huge problem with Pecron. You can only solar charge with their solar panels that cost over $400!! In order to solar charge, you need a minimum of 36 volts and the solar panel needs MC4 connectors running from it. Pecron uses a MC4 to 4 pin aviation cable. Try finding a 36 volt mc4 solar panel.
Cool
Bought one, exactly 1 month to the day I got it, the computer board gave up the ghost, Pecron told me to send it to there repair company, DON'T BUY THIS TURD ! pay a little more and get a name brand like a jackery or other name brand ( live and learn! I'm out $500 ,don't get screwed!).
Take it apart and flip them
I want to run my portable ac at night and then charge it up with solar power
Anyone have a solar power station they are not using can give me?
First