New GOAL ZERO YETI 1500X vs BLUETTI AC200

[silversurfer]

Hi everybody, I am about to buy a powerstation and I am wondering if anybody already had the chance to test the new GOAL ZERO 1500X and to compare it to the BLUETTI AC200 as this would be my favorite so far.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

 

[No.15]

You should link (non affiliate) to your products or at least post spec's.

Ac200 is still pre product until some get delivered. I would wait until a few are in the wild before you buy.

 

[silversurfer]

You should link (non affiliate) to your products or at least post spec's.

Ac200 is still pre product until some get delivered. I would wait until a few are in the wild before you buy.

Of Course, no problem:

1) GOAL ZERO 1500X:
officially on market in October as far as I know;

Yeti 1500X

New Lower Price! The Goal Zero Yeti 1500X is one of our best-selling large portable power stations. It provides an ideal 1,516 Watt Hours for any project, indoors or out. Powerful enough to backup home circuits, but portable enough to take to the job site or integrate into a van build.

www.goalzero.com

2) BLUETTI AC200:
I know that there is a crowdfunding Campaign running on indiegogo and they are in the shipping phase at the moment;
https://www.bluetti.com/products/bluetti-ac200

Will Prowse did a test with a preproduction device here:

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[tictag]

I personally quite like GoalZero products in general, I find them very robust and, frankly, bulletproof. But the thing I hate about their Yeti products is the very low PV input voltage (50V versus Bluetti's 150V) meaning if you want a quick PV charge you have to have lots of parallel panels (with huge cables) or buy specific low-voltage panels to connect in series. I do like the stackable nature of the Yeti's for an easy home grid-failure kit. GoalZero products tend to be over-priced, imho.

 

[HaldorEE]

I personally quite like GoalZero products in general, I find them very robust and, frankly, bulletproof. But the thing I hate about their Yeti products is the very low PV input voltage (50V versus Bluetti's 150V) meaning if you want a quick PV charge you have to have lots of parallel panels (with huge cables) or buy specific low-voltage panels to connect in series. I do like the stackable nature of the Yeti's for an easy home grid-failure kit. GoalZero products tend to be over-priced, imho.

This one has a 2000 W inverter.

 

[tictag]

They both have 2,000W inverters, don't they?

 

[Lazzar]

Will be interesting to see the price of the Yeti 1500x. On paper looks good.
Edit; $3,999.95 Australian Dollars, wow talk about being over priced.

 

[HaldorEE]

They both have 2,000W inverters, don't they?

Yes, glad ro see this in all in ones.

 

[schmism]

wow talk about being over priced.

Part of the reason for my new thread here.

All-in-one PCB

Anyone know of someone (likely from china) selling an all-in-one PCB? IE the guts from a jackery or Bluetti? Yes I know I can stitch together an inverter, mppt SCC, 12v buck converter, BMS, and laptop power supply for 120v AC charging. I just figure there has to be cost savings by having all...

diysolarforum.com

 

[Hodor]

I have the 1500x. What questions do you have about it?

 

[silversurfer]

I am pretty impressed by some of the specs of the BLUETTI like life cycles (2500), output-surge (4800W) and recharge time (AC: 4,7-5,3 hrs), easily beating the YETI 1400 and still beating the YETI 1500X. I made a comparison chart (I hope I got all figures right):



Which criteria were essential for your decision to buy the YETI 1500X? Can you confirm the above figures or is the YETI even better?

Thx a lot!

 

[Forbisher]

I am pretty impressed by some of the specs of the BLUETTI like life cycles (2500), output-surge (4800W) and recharge time (AC: 4,7-5,3 hrs), easily beating the YETI 1400 and still beating the YETI 1500X.

What do you think the AC 200 2500 cycle claim is?
Bluetti says it is to 50% capacity in their Indiegogo FAQ.
They say 1200 to 1400 cycles to 80% capacity and I doubt that wide range.

 

[silversurfer]

What do you think the AC 200 2500 cycle claim is?
Bluetti says it is to 50% capacity in their Indiegogo FAQ.
They say 1200 to 1400 cycles to 80% capacity and I doubt that wide range.

Honestly I have no idea. Will be hard to test.

 

[Forbisher]

Honestly I have no idea. Will be hard to test.

There is no need to test if you know what battery Bluetti is using. Cycles are in battery spec sheets.
LG NMA cells.
And using a claim of 50% is rather dishonest especially when the 2500 never has the 50% attached to it except in the FAQ.

 

[Hodor]

I am pretty impressed by some of the specs of the BLUETTI like life cycles (2500), output-surge (4800W) and recharge time (AC: 4,7-5,3 hrs), easily beating the YETI 1400 and still beating the YETI 1500X. I made a comparison chart (I hope I got all figures right):

View attachment 21801

Which criteria were essential for your decision to buy the YETI 1500X? Can you confirm the above figures or is the YETI even better?

Thx a lot!

Those numbers look correct. I only have 400 watts in panels for it, but the reason I got it is to run my deep freezer for as long as possible in a power outage. The freezer's energy guide is rated for 250kWH annually, so about 685Wh daily. I ran a simple test at home with the 1500x:

Goal Zero Yeti 1500x:
Ran the freezer for 12 hours.
Total Watt hours used - 322
SoC (at beginning of test) - 100%
SoC (at end of test) - 68%
Freezer Idle watts - <1
Freezer Compressor watts - ≈40

That is almost in line with what the Energy Guide is reporting as the test was only 12 hours, so doubling the total Watt hours used would be 644 which is close to 685. I will say though that the SoC bothered me. After 12 hours, it stated 68% so 32% was used. If that is accurate, then it would only run the freezer for about 1.5 -2 days (if I were to take it close to 0% SoC). The watt hours used seemed fairly accurate however so I'm not too worried. If the power does go out, I would have at least 24 hours to assess and get the panels out if necessary.

At this rate with no solar, I expect to get about 2 days of powering the freezer. With the 400 Watts (350 realistically) of panels I have for this and comparing to my local solar irradiance (using 350W instead of 400W), in January (3.03) I can expect about 1050Wh/day and in July (4.97), I can expect about 1750Wh/day. Even in January, that is more than enough to cover with plenty to spare.

I also have a homelab that I would ideally like to power in a power outage event, but I plan to power that off my Yeti 500x. It uses about 100W, but I can get it down to around 20W for just running the internet and no servers. Other than that, really just plan to be able to charge phones and laptops.

 

[Forbisher]

Hi everybody, I am about to buy a powerstation and I am wondering if anybody already had the chance to test the new GOAL ZERO 1500X and to compare it to the BLUETTI AC200 as this would be my favorite so far.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

You can not buy an AC200 now as they ran out of batteries.

 

[silversurfer]

You can not buy an AC200 now as they ran out of batteries.

You can buy on indiegogo.

 

[Forbisher]

You can buy on indiegogo.

Nope.
No longer for sale unless you are a pommy.
Maybe in Nov.

 

[silversurfer]

Nope.
No longer for sale unless you are a pommy.
Maybe in Nov.

I am from Austria and I could buy on indiegogo if I would like to. But shipping will be from September to October/November - that's what BLUETTI announced.

 

[Forbisher]

I am from Austria and I could buy on indiegogo if I would like to. But shipping will be from September to October/November - that's what BLUETTI announced.

Bluetti closed all AC200 sales yesterday!
They ran out of batteries!