[Music] Hi I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today To give you my review of the blue etti Ac70 this is their newest kind of Mid-range unit that is quite affordable And it is an update to their popular e7s Which was the first blue eddi um Power Station that I actually reviewed so so Compared to that unit the ac70 has a More powerful 1,000 watt normal and 2,000 watt Peak inverter built in it has A larger capacity battery of 768 wat Hours and it has a lot of other key Improvements to the charge capacity Functionality Wireless uh connectivity All while dropping the price a little Bit sounds like a winning combination to Me but let's see how it actually holds Up as we dive into the actual handling And performance of the unit Itself so as noted this is a 768 wat Hour lithium iron phosphate battery that Is rated for over 3500 charge cycles to 80% so that means 10 years of daily full Recharge Cycles to even bring the Battery down to 80% in terms of its Capacity to hold a charge so in other Words this is a unit that theoretically Should last for a long time these units Haven't been around long enough frankly To for me to determine whether that Proves to be true but th far I will say That the units that I've had and used For several years seem to be holding up
Just fine and obviously I'm not charging Them on a daily basis so there shouldn't Be that much battery Degradation that is an improvement of 52 Wat hours over the e70s so a little bit Larger battery capacity and then of Course as noted they've also upped the Power of the inverter so this is a th000 Watt pure sign wave inverter that's up From 800 watts and then it has a peak Performance you know kind of a a burst Of 2,000 watts and so that's an Improvement of 400 watts over the 1600 Watts of the E70s and so as far as the inverter and We'll get more to some actual tests in a Moment of the inverter and how it holds Up but on paper the specs look pretty Good for that meaning that it could Handle a pretty wide range of household Appliances and needs that you might have Now one area where the I just most Recently reviewed the ac60 which in Theory is is a inferior unit to this and It does have a smaller capacity it does Have a smaller size inverter in it but It also has some improved specs leaving You with more of a lateral choice Between the two and I'll try to kind of Highlight a few of those choices in Between here but that unit has a much Nicer build a nicer case it is fully Weather sealed with an IP rating this Has no IP rating that's always to me a
Bit of a mistake these units in theor to Help you while you're camping for Example Well things get wet outside and so I Think that it would be nice to have seen An IP rating but obviously there's Nothing covering the plugs and the Switches here there is on a few of the The outputs and inputs but for the most Part they're they're kind of left open To the elements and so this is not a Weather sealed box so that's a negative There there is a 5-year warranty so That's a positive means that you know There's definitely a little bit of Security in owning it knowing that You've got 5 years to discover any kind Of flaws that might there terms of the Actual casing size it is 12.4 in X 8.2 X 10.1 in or 34 mm by 29 or 29.5 mm by 25.8 mm it weighs in at about 222 lb or 10.2 kg and so it's heavy but not Inordinately so you definitely could Carry this to a campsite if needed there Is an integrated handle here and I Appreciate the fact that they maintain a Flat surface but I do prefer this other Bluetti design in which you've got an Integrated handle that can go down flat And then comes up a little bit higher For holding also on this is similar to The AC 60s handle it also has a little Bit of padding underneath here whereas
This is just a plastic section so not Quite as nice a handle though it's Functional and it gets the job done now An interesting Omission even compared to The e70s is that there is no LED light On this anywhere so obviously that is Either a function that they've Determined is not getting used all that Much or for some reason it got axed here But one negative to point to there a Huge positive however that the kind of The limit limiting principle of the E70s was the fact that it did have an External power brick and so that meant That you were limited in terms of the AC Charging by the limitations of those Power bricks and they all have Limitations in this case it was 200 Watts and so you were not charging any Faster than 200 Watts in this case we Have the internalized uh AC adapter so No external power brick and so as a Byproduct you can just plug a simple Cord right into that so it makes it more Portable so I appreciate that but more Importantly as we'll look at in just a Moment it vastly improves the potential For charging and also power pass through And so it's going to enable it to have a UPS function that the other did not have The buttons here are responsive they're Not as nice as those on the ac60 which All of those have um they are actually Kind of weather sealed buttons and so
They have a little bit more of a Substantial feel to them but everything Is responsive in terms of turning on Some of these units I have to just hold Down for a while and there's no kind of Like quick indication they don't light Up and so you don't know whether they're On or off that's not the case here the Buttons are responsive and blue Eddie Does a great job with their LCD screens There's lots of information on there They're clear they're bright they're Easy to read so I appreciate that so as Far as the ports that are here there is Again a one emission compared to the Eb70 there is no charge pad on the top And so that is something that the Previous unit had that this one does not Again I don't know if they've determined It doesn't need it but the ac60 does Have one the ac70 doesn't so make of That what you will we have two 120 volt Grounded plugs those are good for 100 Watt total or that 2,000 kind of peak Power for brief surges we have two usba Ports these are at 5vt 2.4 amps or 12 Watts of output and then we have two USBC 100 watt outputs these have the E Mark chip that does some power Management make sure that it's Delivering the right amount of power That your device can actually take There's some communication so some good Uh plugs there also we have a 12vt 10
Amp car outlet plug and then we have a Couple of inputs so the inputs we've Already know noted the AC adapter here On the front we have our DC and solar Input which is the DC 7909 style input and the other thing That we have here on the side is that we Do have a grounding connector if you Want to ground the unit out to make sure If there's any kind of power surging now One interesting thing is that while this Is Loosely compatible with expansion Batteries like this b80 here unlike the Ac70 unit which has a design that is Fully integrated and so this plug here Goes into the side of the expansion Battery locks in there and then there is A similar plug on the other end that Allows information and power to flow Freely and so you never have to it it Just they work essentially as an Integrated unit that's not the case here And so on one end I'm using this uh Expansion cable which by the way is a Separate accessory you have to buy this It's called the xt60 so it does allow me To access this battery backup but it's Just coming into the DC 7909 input there And so what it ends up functioning is Actually just as an alternate power Source and so um what it's doing is when I turn this unit on it will start to Charge this but it does not operate as An integrated power unit so as you can
See from this video plugging it in the Overall power output doesn't change or Power capacity doesn't change and so This is basically just becomes an Alternate charging source for this unit So I mean that that has its use if You're in a place where you have no Power but in many cases I would actually Prefer to get power from other sources For one thing it only is charging at Right under 200 Watts whereas even from Solar it's easy to get a faster charge Than that on this and so for a couple of Reasons I don't love the integration as Well here I'm glad that it works but I Wouldn't call it a complete integration At least in the sense of the ac60 and The b80 units so let's talk about some Of the other features beside what is Visible here there is a this does have Compatibility with blue with blue Eddie's bluetooth app and so I always Appreciate that it gives you some Expanded control on how the unit Functions I also really like it if I'm Out solar charging unit because I can Check in to see the rate of charge if I Need to maybe come out and adjust the Solar panels or how much longer it's Going to be need to be out there but Then also it allows me to control the Capacity of the unit in a few important Ways one of those is you can make a Choice on how you want to charge if
You're charging from AC and so maybe You're wanting a really quiet type Charge and you're not in a rush you can Charge on the silent mode no fans will Run and so it limits the power input to Where it can just kind of passively take Care of the heat dissipation and so that Charges by my test at 272 Watts the Standard charge rate is 442 Watts by my test fans will come on a Little bit but it's not trying to grab You know electrons really fast fast and Then there's the turbo mode if you're in A rush and you need to fill it up really Fast you can switch into turbo mode it's Going to be the noisiest but it's going To pull those electrons as fast as Possible it's rated at 850 Watts According to the specs in my test it Actually pulled 935 watts and so it can Charge really fast uh through that means If you're in that turbo mode you can Charge the unit completely in a little Over an hour or you can charge it to 45 Minutes or charge it to 80% I should say In just 45 minutes and so you can really Rapid charge the unit that is a huge Advantage over the E70s where it had that 200 wat Max Charging rate and so in this case you Can charge it more than four times as Fast so that's obviously extremely Useful to me even more useful is the Fact that Al the e7s was also limited to
200 Watts from solar I prefer to charge These from solar as much as possible Because it just kind of feels like a a Better way of getting kind of an Alternate way to get electricity so if I've got solar panels I want to use them And so I would be a little frustrated When you have a large capacity battery Can take quite a while to charge it via Solar in this case however we can get The either DC or solar input up to 500 Watts and so that means you can charge Via solar completely in as little as 2.8 Hours which is a really Quack a really Quick solar recharging time and so I Love that I also love the fact that You've got a UPS UPS mode available here Now the change over is 20 Mill seconds Or less so it's not the fastest for the Changeover but fast enough that I could Hook up a PC and um it would it would During a power off cycle it would Actually keep going on that and so That's another useful application if you Have something that you want to back up And you're afraid of it being damaged During kind of a power outage or Something similar there is a UPS no mode Now which is really really valuable so As far as the test that I did I started Off with my uh th000 watt blender kind Of the lowest level for an inverter kind Of it's you know it's matched up to that Th000 watts and so I wanted to see if it
Could run that so the initial draw as You can see started at 770 watts and Then it dropped into about a 600 watt Range it ran at no problem in just Standard mode no issues at all my 1100 Watt blender it started at a higher draw 1135 initial Watts that it drew that's How handled fine by that up to 2,000 Watt Peak Performance as long as that You don't stay in that window too long It will handle that and then as the Motor you know there's draws more power As a motor starts up but then as it Levels off it draws less power and the Unit can keep going so in that case it Started off with 1135 watts and then it Dropped to a sustained 850 Watts again I Didn't have to do anything special it Just ran it and no problem I also noted That I did my smoothie and it was only It was less than 1% battery drain so you Know that's pretty great too if you're Kind of offsite and you need to have That as a power backup the fact that you Can you know drain brings a little of The power to do something like that Which is kind of a power intensive thing Was nice to see I then switched to my 1500 watt Kettle that I typically used Now I was actually kind of impressed by The fact that it drew nearly 1,500 Watts Um and stayed at that and it actually Kept going for 45 seconds which shows me That the peak mode here if the the draw
Is not super high it has the ability to Run that for longer than what I've seen Before so with other units like that I've seen a few seconds before it Overloads in this case it went 45 Seconds before it you know signaled an Overload and it stopped which was enough To get the water you know moving along Fairly well during that time this does Have the the option the blue Edie has Through the app of going into something That's called Power Lift mode so power Lift mode actually throttles back the Amount of current that goes out and Depending on the device there are some Devices that do just fine with that and So in this case running my Kettle it's 1500 watt typical draw it ran it at a 1,5 Watts on average and it was easily Able to bring my Kettle to boil that was Much more useful than the ac60 which was Able to do that but it limited it at 600 Watts of draw which means it took quite A long time to bring the water to boil Whereas in this case it was only drawing A little less than usual and I was able To get the water to boil fairly quick Now I moved up to an even higher draw Thing in this case an 1875 watt hair Dryer it started trying to draw at about 7 00 watts and the battery management System shut it down very quickly due to A high level of overload I switched to The power lift mode and it ran stable at
955 watts and so again you're not Getting as much heat out of a blow dryer Like that not quite as much fan speed But it will actually run it and that's What the powerlift mode is for I will Point however that this works better With devices that have a resistive load Like a heating element it works fine With things like that but if if it's a More complex piece of Machinery uh like An air conditioner or a refrigerator You're going to want to be careful with That because you can kind of Artificially burnout Motors or put Artificial exual wear and tear on them Almost like the running and brown out Mode with a reduced power load to them So it would only result resort to that In an absolute emergency but anyway it Was very useful to have that powerlift Mode so it means that I was able to Power a pretty wide variety of household Devices from the Ac70 so in conclusion let's talk about Some things that like and some things I Don't like I really like the powerful Inverter here that bump up to 1,000 Watts and then 2,000 watt Peak it does Expand the amount of things that this Can run I really really appreciate the Fast charge times it means that I was Able to get this back up to charge very Quickly including via solar my preferred Method made me more likely to use it I
Appreciate that it now has a UPS mode Which is a very valuable additional Feature on these and so the integrated Power brick that is that is a huge huge Thing there there's a good mix of AC and DC ports here can do the various things That I want and blue Ed's app control is Nicely executed it's easy to make those Changes and it does offer up some Additional functions for the unit some Things that I don't like is that Obviously the expansion integration is Not nearly as good I don't find it as Useful and in fact I would prefer to Just run this battery down and then Charge it via solar because this can Charge faster via solar Than what the b80 can the b80 seems to Be limited at around 200 watts and I Can't use my most powerful solar CH Panels to charge it and so it takes Longer to charge so in that case I'd Rather just run this battery down and Recharge it via solar so I don't love That integration as well I also do wish That it did have the wireless pad it Makes it less useful as a desktop type Unit if you wanted to charge some Devices right there and just drop it on There I also wish that it was more Weather sealed and had that IP rating so Was a little bit more versatile for Camping and things like that where You're not as worried about it getting
Wet I also felt like in general the Build quality was inferior to that of The Ac60 now one final thing in favor of This unit is that it offers a very Strong value at $679 Canadian dollars a Little over $500 US and so it's pretty Similar in price to the Ac60 now the a kind of a blend of the Ac60 and the ac70 would be about perfect I love the feature set of the ac60 and Its integration with the battery Expansions but the superior inverter and The much faster recharge times make me Lean towards the ac70 in a practical Sense for the way I use it for similar Money and I will say that several years Ago the very first unit of this type That I reviewed was also a th000 watt Unit from jackary the explor 1000 and in Those few brief years this unit is far And above that unit in basically every Way from the you know the quality Chemistry of the batteries to the Recharge times to UPS function app Control all of those things they have Made a lot of progress in a brief amount Of time and this blue Edie unit still Retails for $300 or $400 less than what That jackary unit did and does at this Point and so I do feel like its value Proposition is really really high and so At the end of the day I wish that it had Some of the functionality of the ac60
But it does the important things really Well and so I definitely can recommend It I'm Dustin Abbott and there is a link In the description to a little article About this also some buying links there If you'd like to purchase one right now It happens to be right in the middle of Their black fridy sale so you can get Some advantages there but there are Various sales that come throughout the Year so keep your eye on that as always Thanks for watching have a great day and Let the light [Music] In F
