My Bluetti AC180P charging station works as a UPS, after a power cut from the station, the refrigerator continues to work, after a while the station completely discharges and turns off. After the power comes on, the station turns on and charges, but the outlets don’t turn on automatically and the fridge doesn’t work until I manually turn on the outlets. Why is it so? In other manufacturers of stations, sockets are turned on when the station is charged from 5 to 10%.
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Hi @Slayerqq
The question about “auto turn on outputs” has been many times on this forum. Bluetti mentioned, that they dont turn on any outlets automaticly on when they where off, because of security concerns. That make absolute sense in my opinion.
Imagine the AC output turn on, without you want and give you a electric shock.
If you really want this function, you can setup a homeassistant instance and to a automation in there.
greetings
Erik
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It could be an optional useful feature at least for devices without cloud access. Let’s say my ac180p is far away when it discharged and grid is on again.
I would like to confirm that I understand all consequences and accept all agreements in application to have auto AC option ON.
Otherwise I need to workaround and setup bluetti application to some other device (old mobile with bluetooth), put it next to ac180p and access remotely to this phone with 3d party remote control application to switch AC button on.
Really not convenient, isn’t?
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yes, I support you, it should be as an extra feature. It is also not convenient for me to always be near the station and turn it on when it is discharged.
This additional feature is very necessary and useful for my Bluetti AC180P.
Without contradicting what was said by Selfmadestrom, if you know what you are doing, I’ve identified 2 workarounds, more or less complex, more or less efficient, but which require some electrical or programming skills, and a simpler one that levchenko.alexander indicated, but which is a little less efficient.
The simplest is, of course, an Android phone (with wifi or mobile network access) that you no longer use. Activate Bluetooth, install “teamviewer host” on this phone and the Bluetti application. Leave this phone near your bluetti unit. Install Teamviewer remote controle on the phone you have with you, and you’ll be able to take remote control of your bluetti unit, even at the other end of the world, through your old android phone. The advantage of this solution is that you can fully control the bluetti application remotely, the disadvantage is that you have to connect regularly to monitor what is happening on your AC180.
-The second solution requires tinkering a little with the electricity: it consists of using a dual Power Automatic Transfer Switch (an example for the US Amazon.com be careful for other countries, take the model adapted to your electrical network). You will connect your fridge to the output of this transfer switch. You connect the main input of the transfer switch (the one which is preferentially activated if there is electricity) to the AC output of your AC180 and the secondary input, you plug into your electrical grid/outlet. The operation is as follows : when your AC180 supplies electricity to his AC socket (AC=ON)… then the transfer switch cuts the second electrical input (the network) and preferably passes through the preferred source/the AC180’s AC output. When you have a power outage, and the AC180 completely drains, your AC180 will turn off. When the electricity from the grid returns, the “AC” is off and the AC180 does not provide power to his AC output. Then the transfer switch will automatically switch to the secondary source, that is to say your electrical grid…
When you get home, you put “AC on” on your AC180 and the transfer switch cuts the grid (secondary source of the transfer switch) and switches to the AC180 by itself.
This solution has the advantage of allowing you to switch your fridge to the grid when the electricity returns (and the AC180 is empty)… so it’s better for your fridge… but you still have to manually put “AC to on” on your AC180 to “rearm” it.
-The last solution requires some programming skills, and an android phone with bluetooth, to install the bluetti application and an automation application like Macrodroid. The idea being that when the electricity from the grid “comes back” (after being cut off) macrodroid will automatically launch the bluetti application, take control of the application, and put “AC On” automatically. I have already written a bit of script to turn “AC on and off” automatically on my AC200max, I can pass it on to you to save you a little time.