Anker SOLIX F2000 Portable Power Station, 2400W

Update: At least Anker stands behind their product. They reached out on their own initiative and replaced both units. New units have all outlets wired in the correct polarity. So I take back what I said about it being a design flaw, but it appears that some units made it out with that defect and my original ones were part of that bad batch. Do use a $10 outlet tester or a multimeter if you have one and check just in case though. It’s best to keep electricity only to where it’s expected. As a bonus I got to test the power delivery discharging the old units for shipping. Both units held 2350W output rock solid for the half hour or so getting down to 25% charge, so that spec checks out. Original review of the reversed polarity units below for posterity:
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Good specs for the price: LFP, GaN, capacity, and power delivery. However as several prior reviewers have noted, they reversed the poliarty on the NEMA 5-20R outlets while the TT-30 is wired correctly. I have two units, both with the same issue, so it definitely seems like this is just a literal design flaw on Anker’s part that affects every unit, which I can’t believe they haven’t rushed in a correction on their assembly line yet after a couple of months of reviewers noting the issue. If you look up the NEMA diagram on wikipedia, you’ll find that when you’re looking at the outlets with ground at the top, both the 5-20 and TT-30 should have live on the left and neutral on the right. Well, when it’s plugged into the wall in pass though mode, the 5-20 has a reversed live and neutral.

While devices shouldn’t care about the polarity in normal operation (they just need the 120v delta between live and neutral which the inverter does seem to do a good job supplying), you run into hazards especially with simple appliances that often only switch the live wire. For example, if a cheap toaster only cuts off power using what it thinks is the live wire, if you make the neutral live, the heating coils inside may be charged even when it’s off. So if you jam a fork in there when it’s off, now you’ve just touched live 120v AC.

Now, this will still work with a bonding plug (only use a bonding plug when it’s disconnected from the wall) as the inverter simply supplies voltage to whichever leg is not being pulled to ground, but as noted above since the TT-30 and 5-20 outlets are wired opposite of each other, no matter in what state things are in at least one outlet will have the wrong polarity, short of cracking the thing open, voiding your warranty, and fixing the wiring. That Anker’s engineers couldn’t spend 5 minutes to look at a diagram on wikipedia before writing assembly instructions for what I imagine is a multimillion dollar assembly line doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in their competence.

I bought this while it was on sale for $1,000 off. I contacted customer support after I received a delivery notification email, but I have yet to receive a delivery. Customer support followed up, and after several email exchanges over the next ten days, they sent a picture of the box at someone else’s front door. They sent another unit, and it arrived quickly.

I used this with two 400-watt solar panels during a recent RV trip. It worked exceptionally well and charged the RV house batteries and all of our devices quickly. It’s simply amazing not to have the noise of a gas generator.

The iPhone app works well, which is another bonus! Live input and output stats are quite addictive and help position the solar panels for maximum power!

I highly recommend this solar generator, and I suggest you watch it, as there are sales often!

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This product is very well built. Charges super fast and you can control the input via a Bluetooth app. If you feel 1450 watts into fast you can back it down to. Solar charge voltages on the input are very usable from 1 panel to 3 panels in series. The inverter is whisper quiet even pushing 2000watts output. The build quality is exceptional. Feels like a tank and fit and finish is above what I thought it would be. Just a solid unit. I did a sump pump test. And surprisingly. My cast iron 1/3 hp red lion runs at 430watts. And the pump runs every 5 mins for 8 seconds.. this anker ran it for 24hr and it still had 64% battery left. That’s impressive. Silent back up power. Didn’t buy it for that but when the power is out, the generator and extention cords become a real pain. I’m super particular and it is so good I bought the f1200 anker a month later. Solid, functional product with low inverter losses make it a winner. And with the inverter off iv had 2 weeks and still at 100%. Don’t have an rv , so the 30amp hook up I can’t test but I did get a 10 circuit reliance panel with 30 Amp input I need to get installed. Hope this helps you. I researched solar generators for 6 months heavy. Bluetti without the brick charger, ecoflow with lithium phosphate and anker are the clear winners. I went with anker. Quiet, fast charge, great inverter, built tough, 5 year warranty and has wheels and a handle. And the light. That light takes 3watts and is so bright. 3 watts!. Great little touch