How to Prepare a Portable Power Station for Hurricane Season
The storm is two days out. You go to the cupboard for the power station you bought after the last one, and it’s sitting at 31% with the solar cable…
What Can a 1000Wh Power Station Run?
The box says 1000Wh. What you want to know is whether that’s a night with the fridge still cold, or two hours and a flat battery. Here’s the honest version…
Can a Portable Power Station Replace a UPS?
JPS flickers for half a second. Your PC reboots, you lose an hour of unsaved work, and the power station sitting three feet away holding two kilowatt-hours, fully charged did…
Can Solar Panels Charge a Power Station on a Cloudy Day?
Three days after the storm. The grid is still down, your power station is at 30%, and the sky has been the colour of concrete since Tuesday. That’s the moment…
How Long Can a BLUETTI Power Station Run a Fan?
Two in the morning, the power’s been out for hours, and nothing in the room is moving. That’s the situation behind this question, and it isn’t really about fans. The…
How to Maintain a BLUETTI Portable Power Station
Most maintenance advice for these units is about the months they spend in a cupboard. That’s covered but it isn’t where the wear actually happens. The wear happens while you’re…
How to Store a Portable Power Station Safely
Hurricane season ends. The unit that got you through two outages goes into a cupboard, and nobody thinks about it again until June. That gap is where the damage happens.…
Can You Charge a BLUETTI Power Station While Using It?
Day two of the outage. The fridge is plugged in and running, the sun is finally out, and you’re standing there with a solar panel wondering whether you have to…
Can a BLUETTI Power Station Run a Refrigerator Overnight?
You open the freezer the morning after an outage and you already know. The bags have gone soft, there’s water pooling at the bottom, and a week’s worth of meat…
Can a Portable Power Station Run a TV During a Power Outage?
The power goes out ten minutes into the match. Or halfway through the evening news, or in the middle of the film the kids have been waiting for all week.…