Fanttik EVO 300 Portable Power Station

Fanttik EVO 300 Portable Power Station

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Its $160 at their website. Well, $250 plus the $90 off code thats on the website. Code: SEVO90


[MOD: Code didn’t work for me]

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Going by the reviews at the mothership, this uses Samsung INR 18650 35E cells, not LiFePO4 cells.

(Note that I am not staff. I just volunteer to help out on the forums.)

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“Power 90% of essential home appliances and devices rated under 300W.”

I think this is more meant for keeping your electronics charged like those shown in picture 4. I doubt it would even power a coffeemaker (mine has a NEMA 5-15 plug on it anyway.)

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Your typical coffee maker will be at least 900 or more watts. A regular refrigerator uses about 200 watts but can require up to 700 watts to start, which exceeds the 600 watt surge this can handle. Maybe a mini-fridge might work.

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We bought this last time it was on Woot for my husband’s c-pap. He says the fan is a little loud, but it works well. I was impressed with how fast it recharges. If I can’t find one with a little more wattage, I may be in for another one.

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Here’s one that will power your coffeemaker and it is the LiFePO4 battery technology. 1200W Portable Power Station

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How long does it power a c-pap?

Someone recently posted in a forum when a similar item was listed that they got a battery to use as cpap backup power rather than going from AC to DC and back, they did the DC direct route skipping the adapter. Not sure if every cpap has that option but most are DC input from the power brick.

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Anyone know what solar panel connection it uses? Is it proprietary or are you able to use other 100w solar panels? (Assuming the panels supply the proper power)

The Fanttik Evo 300 power station (battery unit) has multiple input options, including direct Anderson connection, and one of the wider DC barrel plugs (I don’t have this model, and couldn’t readily verify the dimension) on the back of the unit. It also allows for USB Power Delivery up to 60W via the USB-C on the front.

The company’s solar panels come with a standard Anderson connection, as well as a multi-adapter that has several DC barrel plugs. I do have one of those (and just ordered another today) - These will easily adapt to power Jackery, Anker, and other battery units just fine.

Hope that helps!

Unfortunately, that answer is variable, and totally dependent on the precise CPAP/BiPAP unit that is in use. Some will draw as little as 30W, while others exceed 100W…

If we assume the low end, 30W draw on a ~300Wh battery would be about ten hours. But a high-draw 100W unit could tank that same battery in three hours. If we use a middling number of 50W, then you’re in the realm of six hours from a full battery. That’s the quick math, anyway… My brother has an older BiPAP unit that we have taken camping, powered by a similarly spec’d Anker battery, and it gets him through enough of the night that we are okay.

If you truly need more assurance though, I would recommend increasing the budget, and looking at something like the larger Anker units on Amazon - something like their SOLIX F1200 or larger, which leverage larger battery capacities of 1200+ Wh, compared to this one’s 300. Those units are not cheap, but with that much extra battery capacity, heat, and battery leveling technology packed into fancier BMS (battery management systems, which I used to help design, just for a competitor :wink:), they really ought to be.

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

It does thank you. I would just like to use something in case of a power outage, so hopefully, would just have to last thru one night.

Was also just wondering since sacjeanie mentioned it, what their real world experience was.

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He used it for two days straight with power left over. His smaller (older) battery lasted 3 days. But it depends on if you have the humidifier.

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Plan on charging daily during an outage. CPAP can be a matter of life and death, especially with the added stress brought by the disaster on hand.

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I just tried the SEVO90 code at Fantik’s website. It did not work.

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I wonder if i can plug that into a tesla lol

Totally has the right physical connectors and plugs to be used with a Tesla 110V charging kit…

HOWEVER, there are a couple huge reasons that won’t be useful.

Firstly, this battery unit doesn’t have enough juice to charge at a high rate. With its 300W output, it won’t even handle high-draw kitchen appliances. Wattage in this case can be thought of like the total volume of water flowing in a river, and this can provide a faucet’s worth of that, which is great for charging a laptop, or powering small devices. But the Tesla wants the Mississippi River. :ocean:

Secondly, the total capacity of this is 299Wh, which is not much. The entry-level Model 3 has (had?) a 60kWh battery. That’s 60,000Wh to get the units matched. And then this battery would get you roughly 1/200 of that. :grimacing:

While this could slowly charge a Tesla for maybe a mile or two, I would think of a battery like this as more of an overgrown USB power bank, which can handle some small AC plug duties. It’s not a large, portable generator, like an electric version of the gas jerrycan that a jeep or overlander might have mounted outside for a few spare gallons of gasoline.

Hopefully that helps explain - Wasn’t trying to be rude; Just to keep things in scope, and the perspective clear.

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You deserve credit for writing this. I was definitely not serious about using it to charge a Tesla. That said, in an emergency that 1/200th would be better than nothing.