HR2.0 - Bioenno Power 160 Watt-Hour Renewable Power Pack | Solar Generator, Off-Grid Power

The BPP-160 from Bioenno is a 160 Watt-Hour Power Pack / Solar Generator that will give you AC and DC power when you are away from grid power, and has a built-in solar charge controller so that you can connect a solar panel directly to it.

Link: https://www.bioennopower.com/collec...products/copy-of-renewable-power-pack-bpp-160

 

Thanks Jason, nice video.

 

The video said that the term "solar generator" was strange so which ham were you referring to?

 

If he ever watched the videos he'd know most of his comments he puts on Jason's threads are off-base...but he doesn't watch so, therefore, he doesn't know that Jason actually mentioned this and how the naming is not an accurate depiction of what the product does.

 

sadly solar generator is an industry term for larger portable battery solutions. Bioenno is not the first to use this term and they will not be the last. Its like many of the other buzz words these days like cloud computing. We have to include the word solar even though our product does not natively do anything with solar.

 

^ This

I thought it was a strange term. But I am strange also. So I guess I should be happy with the term too.

 

Wow, I just didn't know that I had built a 'solar generator' by using a folding solar panel, a charge controller, a battery and a power pole distribution board.

 

Actually it's worse. Most of these so-called "solar generators" don't even come with solar panels, they're just batteries with inverters and charge controllers. Ignoring what many manufacturers call them, it's a handy package, but the term is misleading.

Having watched the video, the OP questioned the term himself, so I think we're good to go on the ideological purity test.

Chris

 

I swear, some of the people on this forum are worse than a 14-year-old troll posting things from their mom's basement. And instead of apologizing for posting something inaccurate, I find out all too often they think just deleting the content of the post will suffice. Like no one could ever see the original content any way LOL. And folks complain about the youth of today

 

I have never been off grid and don't really have a set up to do so.
I mainly prefer to receive as I have not yet figured out how to get
a station going here at the new QTH. There are so many power options
hams have today that we didn't have even a decade ago. As it is,
I could probably find enough used 18650's to power a station on
receive for a decade if not more. Then again, a crystal set
buried with me, and I'll receive forever.

 

This btw is clearly more of a solar generator than the OP https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Flashl...ble-Smartphones/dp/B08BYL3G9J?ref_=ast_sto_dp. It has a solar panel to charge the batteries and a flashlight to generate photons which is about as close as we can reasonably get to a "solar generator" that is portable.

 

I'm sure this is a good video--I'm a big fan of Jason's YouTube shows.

One thing ticks me off. Have you noticed the battery makers have taken to expressing capacity in watt-hours instead of amp-hours? I guess they think "160 watt-hours" is just a lot more impressive sounding than a mere "13 amp-hours."

 

Perhaps, and if the amp-hours are always quoted at 12V, that might work. But I'd say that watt-hours is the more relevant term, particularly for a device that has something like an inverter, or a buck or boost converter, making it capable of delivering power at a different voltage than the native voltage of its batteries.

I care more about energy or power than coulombs or amps. If you insist on buying based on amp-hours, someone will start rearranging the cells to make a 6V battery to drive the inverter, thus doubling his device's amp-hours, without increasing its energy content by a single Joule.

It's harder to increase the watt-hours by doing useless tricks like that.

 

Well not really, but...