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Bluetti has raised $11 cardinal successful crowdfunding for its AC500 modular star powerfulness station, with it and the B3000S enlargement artillery present acceptable to spell connected merchantability though the authoritative store and Amazon from November 25.
The AC500 was enactment onto crowdfunding tract Indiegogo a few months ago, and received a fantastic response. Raising much than $11 cardinal during its clip connected the site, Bluetti is expanding its availability to much emblematic retail channels.
Starting from November 25, you volition beryllium capable to bargain the AC500 and the B300S enlargement artillery from the Bluetti online store, arsenic good arsenic done Amazon.
A follow-up and sharing galore parallels with the A300, Bluetti's archetypal modular model, the AC500 goes a batch further with the concept. It is compatible with the B300 and B300S artillery packs, enabling for a capableness of up to 18,432Wh.
It includes a 5,000W inverter, susceptible of 10,000W surges, which is capable to grip the powerfulness needs of astir high-power electronics. If you see a separately-available Fusion Box Pro, you tin link unneurotic 2 AC500s for treble the maximum capacity, voltage, and power, astatine 36,864Wh, 240V/10,000W.
You tin link up to six B300s artillery packs to an AC500 to scope that 18,432Wh capacity.
As good arsenic providing powerfulness to your location successful an exigency oregon erstwhile you're off-grid, the AC500 is besides precise flexible for recharging power. There are 9 ways to get powerfulness into it, including AC power, led-acid batteries, arsenic a star generator, and with dual and triple-charging methods. If you harvester powerfulness from a partition outlet with solar, you could complaint the AC500 successful an hr with a maximum 8,000W input.
The star powerfulness is handled with a matchless MPPT star inverter, truthful erstwhile hooked up to the close sheet system, you tin get up to 3,000W of star input. You tin adjacent get to 80% complaint utilizing premier sunshine successful astir an hr and a half.
There's besides a wide assortment of outputs, including 3 120V/20A outlets, a 120V/30A L14-30, a 120V/30A TT-30, a 120V/50A NEMA14-50, 2 100W USB-C ports, 2 18W and 2 5V/3A USB-A ports, and 2 15W wireless charging pads. There's adjacent a 12V/30A RV outlet and a 24V/10A car outlet.
The built-in precocious BMS and LFP artillery besides helps amended information and lengthens the lifespan of each unit. The LiFePO4 artillery offers optimal show and durability, including implicit 3,500 charging cycles to 80% of its archetypal capacity, giving it a lifespan of implicit 10 years.
The powerfulness absorption of the AC500 is handled on-device, though you tin besides presumption details via the Bluetti app connected your iPhone, execute over-the-air firmware updates, and adjacent crook it connected and disconnected remotely.
All of this is successful a reasonably compact package. The AC500 measures 20.5 inches by 12.8 inches by 14.1 inches, and weighs 66.2 pounds.
When it goes connected merchantability done Bluetti's online store and Amazon connected November 25, the AC500 volition person an RRP of $2,499, with the B300S 3,072Wh artillery battalion astatine $2,099.