Donna called me on a Wednesday afternoon in August while I was in my garage with a thermometer, a Kill A Watt meter, a 5,000 BTU window AC unit, and an EcoFlow DELTA Pro. She wanted to know if she could keep her bedroom cool during the next outage without running a generator. “Just tell … Read more
3:14 a.m. That’s the time the power went out during Hurricane Ian’s outer bands moving through Jacksonville in 2022. I know the exact time because my ResMed AirSense 10 beeped once, went dark, and the absence of white noise woke me up instantly. I’d been using a power station for my fridge for months. I had … Read more
A reader named Patricia emailed me last month. She’d bought a 3,600Wh portable power station — the EcoFlow DELTA Pro — based on a YouTube video that said “bigger is always better for hurricane season.” She’d used it through two outages. First outage: she ran her refrigerator, her CPAP machine, and charged her phone. Used … Read more
The most common mistake I see homeowners make with portable power stations isn’t buying a bad brand. It’s buying too much capacity for what they’re actually going to do with it. More watt-hours feels safer. It’s intuitive — bigger battery, longer coverage, more peace of mind. But “biggest I can afford” is not a sizing … Read more
23. That’s how many standby generators Ray has installed in the past 18 months in the Jacksonville area alone. Generac units, Kohler units, a handful of Briggs & Stratton machines he doesn’t recommend anymore. He’s pulled permits on all of them, run gas lines to most of them, and gotten service calls back on some of … Read more
Why does everyone ask me this specific comparison? Probably because Generac is the brand people know from TV ads and neighbors’ yards, and EcoFlow is the brand that keeps showing up in storm-prep Facebook groups with surprisingly compelling prices. They’re not the same type of product — and that’s exactly where the confusion starts. Here … Read more
Chris texted me on a Sunday with an unusual question. Not about generators — his usual territory — but about his younger sister in Raleigh, North Carolina, who’d just moved into her first house and was asking him what to buy for storm season. “She has a $600 budget,” he wrote. “Maybe $700. What do … Read more
6,000 watts of continuous AC output. That number is the reason this unit exists. Every other flagship portable power station in this price range — the EcoFlow DELTA Pro at 3,600W, the Bluetti AC300 at 3,000W — caps somewhere below it. The Anker SOLIX F3800 runs at 6,000W continuous with a 12,000W surge rating, which means … Read more
Software is not a minor detail on a power station. It is the difference between knowing you’re okay and hoping you’re okay at 2 a.m. during a storm. I’ve said this in passing in a few posts — the AC300 review, the AC200MAX vs DELTA 2 Max comparison — but I keep threading it in as a footnote … Read more
Donna called me on a Wednesday in July, which was unusual because she typically texts. “Someone at my office told me to look at the Bluetti AC300,” she said. “They said it’s what serious homeowners buy.” She’d already looked up the price. There was a long pause. “Marcus, why does the base unit not have … Read more
