DabbssonPortable Power Station DBS2300, 2330Wh EV Semi-solid State LiFePO4 Home Battery Backup, Max 8330Wh, 5×2200W AC Outlets, Solar Generator for Camping, Home Backup, Emergency, RV

This is a well-constructed and expandable power station. The display is one of the best I have seen, and I have a number of units to compare to.It provides a large amount of power (up to 2200 continuous watts) and does so with just a slight fan noise.My initial test was to hook up my cpap to the 12v plug and to run a Lasko pedestal fan on AC. The 12v cpap uses about 30W and the fan draws 90W. I conducted the test 3 times. Each time the AC would shut off with the overload symbol after about 5 minutes. DC power remained unaffected. The next day I decided to see if the AC inverter doesn’t work. More testing.I ran a vaccum for about 15 minutes straight to vaccum the living room under load. This varied between 800 and 1000W. I did this several times rotating through all 5 plugs. No errors. I also ran a rice cooker for a cooking cycle, using about 500 continuous watts for approximately 30 minutes. I then used a hairdryer on all settings, drawing up to 1,900 watts. I repeated on all outlets. Finally, I attached the fan again, but without also running 12v. It ran the 90W fan flawlessly for almost an hour.Charging without the app runs either at a very fast pace well over1,000w, or by sliding the lever down on the side it will charge at about 490W. Both worked fine. For less stress on the system I will reserve fast charge for whwn I really need it.I plan to update this when I have charged via solar and conducted a few more stress tests to determine if I have a reliable unit or not. So far it seems fine after the initial hiccups. The biggest downside is this thing is heavy! That’s why I titled this the way I did. This is a power outage or limited home backup power station. You aren’t taking this thing anywhere casually. It will be even more cumbersome with the additional batteries. Looking forward to adding one of those to this as well. Overall I recommend this!UPDATE 8/26/2023 I already tried this update a week ago and nothing posted here goes again. The first week of August I had an electrical problem where a short had knocked out power to a spare bedroom. I use the bedroom for a 5000 BTU window air conditioner to help out the central air. Here in South Louisiana we have been through over 45 days straight of brutal heat of 95 or more, with 13 days over 100. Very unusual for us, since our normal summer high is about 92. While I awaited the electrician for several days I still needed that AC.I used this Dabbson and another brand, switching them each out while the other charged. I got nearly 4 hours out of a charge on the Dabbson while leaving 20%. I switched them out like this for 4 days. Dabbson made an outstanding unit that bad no problems with the AC startup, did not overheat (indeed half the time no fan was running, and half the time just one). It just did what I asked of it. Very pleased.

This product is a solar generator which means that you can choose to charge it from solar panels but it can be charged directly from a regular house 110 volt socket. We have used it through two power outages this without needing to go to solar but if the outage lasts long enough you will need to go to solar or go dark like everyone else.To summarize the Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300 is an amazing device that is so easy to setup with solar because it incorporates the Solar charger/inverter/battery into a single device but it is also extremely powerful as a simple temporary backup during a shorter power outage. It has ample power to get through most "normal" power outages if you plan accordingly. I have probably been lucky (even though I was directly hit by Hurricane Sandy) in that I have only been without power for longer than 12 hours once in the last 30 years so I am classing 12 hours or less as normal. If you are trying to power your mansion in Beverly Hills for a week then you need to think bigger. Dabbson also provide an excellent app which was very easy to setup for monitoring the generator on line and to make configuration changes. I highly recommend this generator.If you are interested let's go into more detail. If you are only still here to hear the tip I mentioned You can skip to the end.This isn't a whole house generator so you really need to identify your "emergency devices" that are must haves in an outage. This will vary by every person so I can only talk about what we need which doesn't include a hair dryer or portable AC unit or a heater or a clothes iron etc. You will need to find the watts that each of your identified devices draw and decide if the minimum Watt hours you need.We locate the unit next to our two modems and two wifi routers. We both rely heavily on internet access for work involving webinars / zoom/webex meetings and presentations etc. so we have two separate providers as a contingency. So internet access is our most important emergency device along with fridge freezer, computers, phones and TV.The Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300 when fully charged can provide 2330 Watt hours of juice.For the non electricians/physics majors out there this simply means that if all of the devices that you attach draw in total 2330 watts of power the unit will run out of juice in 1 hour. if your devices draw 230 watts in total you would get 10 hours of juice.This doesn't sound like a long time but when you consider what you will be running in the event of an power outage then the picture is much rosier.For us our emergency devices are the modems and routers which draw less than 100 watts when both are in use (in an emergency we really only need 1 connection). When they are not in use they barely register any wattage at all (more on this later), we have a Fridge freezer that cycles up and down but uses approx 150 watts average. We run our two computers that draw about 100 each when in use. We charge our phones which draw 10 watts when charging but once charged of course use no draw. We run a TV that pulls 100 watts.Breaking that down if we run all of our emergency devices at the same time and continuously we would have:2 Internet 100 watts2 Computers 200 watts2 Phones 20 watts1 Fridge/Freezer 150 watts1 TV 100 wattsSo maximum of 570 watts draw giving a little over 4 hours juice.Being more realistic during normal living and working we probably only use most devices except the fridge say 50% or less of the time and so we would use much less:1 Internet 50 watts2 Computers 100 watts2 Phones 10 watts1 Fridge/Freezer 150 watts1 TV 50 watts360 watts giving almost 6.5 hours of juice.However, this is an emergency situation and we don't live and work as normal. We basically wrap up our business necessities and reschedule where we can, We don't sit at our computers reading the news / playing games or writing our next book, We try to keep our phones and laptop computers fully charged at all times and especially if we have advance notice of bad weather so we don't usually need to recharge them during a short outage.So what does this look like?1 Internet 50 watts (yes it didn't go down because you have to stream Netflix in a power outage right!)2 Computers 25 watts2 Phones 0 watts1 Fridge/Freezer 150 watts1 TV 50 watts275 watts giving you about 8.5 hours juice,If you are careful during the emergency you can get even more backup. We had 2 outages this year the first was for 6 hours and the second for 11 hours. We ran all of our devices mentioned above throughout both of these outages on our Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300. Impossible you say! Well, I will admit that we did a couple hours of reading instead of streaming during that 11 hour outage...every little helps.For full disclosure, we do have a freezer in our garage which we do protect separately on it's own smaller solar generator of 1000WH that is dedicated to the freezer only. We also have a second smaller generator of 700 WH that we use as a floater that we can carry around and take to the bedroom at night which can be used to run a lamp or a cpap machine or just to do an overnight charge of the phones.Overall I can highly recommend the Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300 as long as you do your research, plan carefully what devices you need to power in an outage and be frugal in your use of that highly prized wattage.OK this is the end of the review and here is my tip for anyone interested in getting the excellent Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300. I do not have anything negative to say about the Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300 but I did come across a very annoying "out of the box" configuration setting that caused me some consternation but may be of no concern to you. The default setting on the device is to turn off the AC output if it detects "no draw" for a period of time. I think this was initially set to 12 hours. My internet modems/routers and computers that are the only things connected full time are apparently drawing such a low wattage when not in use that the generator would shut down after twelve hours of inactivity. This meant that the internet and my computers would go down almost every night requiring a lengthy reboot the next morning of all the devices and then re-establishing complex procedures to my various business connections. Fortunately, the excellent app provided allows you to change this default to several different longer periods including "never".... problem solved.I highly recommend the Dabbsson Portable Power Station DBS2300