Coming soon to the uk,looking forward to seeing the full uk launch event scheduled for the 26th.
Bring it in.
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If I’m putting 2 racks down on a power station, it better have more than 12-60 VOC sorry. If you can put the 12-145VDC, 15A MPPT in the AC200L, so can you put it in the Elite 300. Shame.
Weight and size losses are impressive, and innovation keeps delivering overall, but I strongly believe the industry of portable power will stagnate until every power station with an inverter larger than 2 kW becomes expendable with non-proprietary batteries. And people already do that to the existing Bluetti/Ecoflow models by connecting 51.2V 100 Ah golf cart batteries. Sadly, it’s not that easy and user-friendly.
From my experience (Ukraine), people look at the price of AC200PLs, Apex300s, and B500K batteries and just go for 6 kW fanless wall-mountable inverters (mostly Deye, but it’s banned in the US afaik) with 51.2V 230 Ah batteries for the same price (actually it’s even ~$600 cheaper) and have a backup for the whole house/apartment with double capacity and zero reliability issues.
If you can’t beat them, join them. Or you’ll eventually degrade to selling Elite 100-200 class models only.
You can’t charge premiums for expandability forever.
Oh, and I’m just gonna say it—I don’t really care about losing a few inches and pounds. Make future models slightly bigger and heavier so I could just connect any $700 100 Ah battery to it with ease.
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If you’re planning to drop 2 racks of panels on a power station, then yeah… it definitely needs more than a 12–60V VOC solar input. That range is way too limited for larger array setups.
With two racks in series (depending on panel specs), your open-circuit voltage can easily go well above 60V — especially in cold weather when VOC rises. So a unit that supports something like:
By racks I mean money. 2 Racks= 2 Thousand Dollars. If I can get the Elite 100 V2 for under $400, why should I spent $2000 for a power station to limit me to 12-60VDC just because it has more battery. I argue premium price point should come with premium features.