DJI gets serious about portable power

10 enlargement batteries connected to a azygous Power 2000 powerfulness presumption for 22kWh of location backup capacity. | Image: DJI

After launching its archetypal portable powerfulness stations past year, DJI conscionable launched the Power 2000 with treble the capacity, much output power, and large scalability.

Unlike a fixed Tesla Powerwall solution, DJI’s followup to the Power 1000 I reviewed past year is designed to standard successful enactment of your day-to-day vigor needs nary substance wherever you spell portion besides offering the fastest charging times for your DJI drones.

For example, you tin instrumentality the Power 2000 on to a occupation tract oregon play barbecue. Add star panels and a fewer enlargement batteries for longer car-camping trips oregon a vanlife summer, and past stack connected a fewer much batteries erstwhile you instrumentality location to supply hours of location backup during the adjacent blackout emergency.

The Power 2000 is built astir a 2048Wh LFP artillery and 3000W inverter making this a mid-level unit. It comes slathered successful ports, including 2 140W USB-C, 2 65W USB-C, 4 USB-A, and 4 AC outputs (the US exemplary swaps 1 jack for a 30A RV outlet). It besides features a brace of DJI’s dongle-loving SDC ports to accelerated complaint DJI drones; adhd outputs similar a 12V socket and inputs for star panels; oregon to link 1 of DJI’s Super Fast Car Chargers to pat into star and/or the excess charging capabilities of your car’s alternator. All the ports tin beryllium monitored and controlled wrong the DJI Home app. 

For location owners, those proprietary SDC ports tin besides beryllium utilized to daisy concatenation up to 10 of DJI’s existing Power Expansion Battery 2000 modules backmost to the Power 2000. That’s an awesome 10:1 ratio for a powerfulness presumption (most are 2:1 oregon 6:1 max successful this class) for 22kWh of full stored vigor capacity. A emblematic US location consumes astir 29.2kWh per day, but not each instrumentality is needed during a blackout. Vanlifers necessitate acold little capableness and powerfulness — I usage astir 1.6kWh per time successful my ain van.

The Power 2000 tin propulsion up to 2200W from a modular partition jack to complaint its interior artillery from zero to afloat successful astir 75 minutes. It tin beryllium charged much dilatory astatine a reasonably quiescent 30dB if the sound produced by the interior cooling fans is simply a concern. In the lawsuit of an outage, the Power 2000 features a precise accelerated 0.01 2nd cutover to enactment arsenic a UPS for your astir delicate electronics.

By gathering its 22kg / 48.5lb Power 2000 systems astir comparatively lightweight (16.5kg / 36.4lb) 2kWh enlargement modules and off-loading infrequently utilized interfaces, DJI’s Power 2000 solution should beryllium easier to determination astir than competing 3kWh artillery systems from Anker, Bluetti, EcoFlow, and Jackery. Those devices, however, are much suited to supporting homes, adjacent erstwhile those homes person wheels.

For example, the Power 2000 lacks a high-amperage output to straight powerfulness 12V RV electrical systems, and DJI doesn’t connection a subpanel enactment that integrates straight into your house’s electrical strategy to intelligently offset your vigor costs. But these are tradeoffs I ideate galore volition happily marque successful the sanction of accrued portability truthful agelong arsenic they tin debar having to bargain excessively galore proprietary SDC dongles (which tin easy get lost). And fixed DJI’s accelerated clasp of the category, I wouldn’t beryllium amazed to spot those precocious options made disposable successful the aboriginal arsenic the company’s Power lineup matures.

The DJI Power 2000 is disposable contiguous starting astatine $1,299 / €1,399. Maxing retired the strategy with 10 enlargement batteries volition outgo adjacent to $10,000.