Bluetti AC180 giveaway - competition ends 12pm Friday July 14
Bluetti is teaming up with AutoExpert to give one of you a free AC180 portable power station.
Fill in the form below to enter. I’ll select one winner and notify them by e-mail after the competition ends. I’ll announce the winner on YouTube next week.
The AC180 packs a punch but remains highly portable.
Check out my detailed video review of the Bluetti AC180.
The competition: No strings attached. (Well, there are actually two strings: you have to be a human, and you have to be located in ‘Straya.) And the competition ends at midnight on Friday 14 July 2023, if you needed a third attached string….
I love the AC180 - and you will, too, if you need electrical power on location, or at home, during a power failure.
Here, the AC180 is driving a magnetic drill rated at more than 1000 watts
This thing has nine outputs to keep your electron-fuelled life on track, the headline act of which is 1800 watts of pure sine wave AC mains power (or up to 2700 watts, in power-lifting mode).
And it’s the good stuff - pure sine wave AC, from a high-quality inverter. It’s got a super-stable 1152 watt-hour lithium-iron-phosphate battery with a 10+ year lifespan. Translation: All quality components.
In addition to the twin 240-volt AC outlets, it’s also got a high-power 100-watt USB-C outlet, four USB-A ports, a 12V DC car-type power outlet (10 amps), and a 15-watt wireless inductive charge pad on top for phones and tablets.
If you’re hazy on the whole watt-hour thing: 1152 of them is enough to charge a smartphone more than 60 times, or a laptop about 15 times. It’ll run 20-ish watts of LED lighting at a campsite for roughly 48 hours, or a portable refrigerator for 12-24 (ish) hours.
And if you’re camping, you can feed the AC180 solar from a fold-out panel, to keep it topped up. Bluetti also does the panels, and the AC180 has an inbuilt solar charge controller.
The unit weighs 17 kilos in total - so it’s a one-person carry from home to a vehicle to a boat, to a job site, etc., and because it’s fully self-contained, there’s no need to drill a bunch of holes in your vehicle, just to find it a home. You don’t need to mount an inverter near a battery, near an MPPT controller, and find a USB solution, and hope it all works.
You certainly don’t need to be an electronics master technician to get it up and running. Just turn it on, and plug stuff in.
You can feed it mains power to recharge, at home or in a motel room, you can pump 12-volts into it from the car as you drive, as well as solar while camping, etc.
And you can re-charge it while you’re drawing power out of it.
It’s got a great display, and if you download the Bluetti app, you can control and monitor your AC180 remotely using your phone.
The AC180 is an out-of-the-box no-brainer to civilise a campsite, to stop the food spoiling during a power failure, and get the tools and the batteries powered up if you’re working off the grid. It’s awesome, and certainly a helluva lot quieter than a generator.
What are you waiting for? A free Bluetti AC180. Get on it.
And thanks, Bluetti - nice one.
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Here are the tech specs, if you need help with the answers below. (Click the link, and scroll for the ‘tech specs’ tab.)
Entries close midnight 14 July 2023, AEST. I’m not going to argue the toss about the answers, or who won. Deal with it.