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Outdoors · BLUETTI · 2023

BLUETTI AC180

More watt-hours on the label than the others here, fewer of them usable, and heavier to carry.

Power stations: the label overstates every battery here — #5

Overall

7.5

out of 10

Axis scores

Strongest on Performance (7.9), weakest on Design (6.6), a 1.3-point spread. The 7.5 overall is the plain average of all 4 Outdoors axes, with no weighting.

BLUETTI AC180 — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 4 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. BLUETTI AC180: Performance 7.9, Value 7.6, Durability 7.8, Design 6.6.PerformanceBLUETTI AC180 — Performance 7.9 out of 107.9ValueBLUETTI AC180 — Value 7.6 out of 107.6DurabilityBLUETTI AC180 — Durability 7.8 out of 107.8DesignBLUETTI AC180 — Design 6.6 out of 106.6Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Design — Build quality and how it sits in a room

Specs

Capacity
1,152Wh, LiFePO4
AC output
1,800W continuous, 2,700W Power Lifting mode
Weight
About 35 lb
Wall recharge
1.3 to 1.8 h with turbo charging
Rated cycles
3,500+ to 80% capacity
UPS switchover
20ms
Outlets
4 AC, 1 USB-C (100W), 4 USB-A, 12V, 15W wireless pad
Warranty
5 years

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • It stays in one place, like a garage shelf or an RV cabinet
  • You charge a lot of small USB devices at once

Skip it if

  • Someone has to carry it any distance
  • A desktop computer needs to survive the switch to battery, since 20ms is slow for that
  • You want to add a second battery later; it does not take expansion packs

On paper this has the biggest battery of the one-kilowatt-hour group. In OutdoorGearLab’s discharge test it delivered about 950Wh, 18 percent under the rating, which puts its usable energy level with units that advertise less.

It also weighs about 35 pounds, a good ten more than the Anker or the Jackery, and reviewers rate its power-to-weight as poor. That rules it out for anything that gets carried.

Operation is simple, and a full recharge in roughly 1.3 hours is quick. The fan is not quiet. There is a long thread on BLUETTI’s own community forum from owners asking about it.

The switchover time of 20 milliseconds is on the slow side for a computer and fine for lights, a fridge, or a router. BLUETTI’s expansion batteries can charge it through a power-bank mode but do not add capacity to it, which catches people who assumed otherwise.

Stock is the other thing to check. BLUETTI’s US store has listed it as out of stock with a restock date, while retail listings carry on. The newer AC180P is a different battery and should not be confused with it.

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