[Discussion] Yard Force 1200W Solar Power Station

geekcohen on 27/01/2025 - 06:31

General Discussion about the Yard Force 1200W Solar Power Station product to avoid thread takeovers and to start fresh with feedback/issues/concerns. It seems based on the recent Ecoflow RIVER 2 Portable Power Station deal that a number of the Yard Force buyers have had some issues with theirs.

luigough posted two writes ups on the product. He posted a tear down on the device which was great. But this month he posted about his failure of the power station.

Woosta has also had a failure after 1 month

i didn't miss out on the deal, the yardforce lasted 1 month and died.

I was having mine sitting there for the odd occassion and backup. But now prompted me to use it a bit more to try and see if it can get it to failure before the warranty ends. Yesterday it worked okay. My solar blanket has crapped itself, so was only charging 30W and I was drawing 100W. Time for a new solar panel for this.

Anyone else with issues?

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  • theHMASfriendship on 27/01/2025 - 07:57
    +5

    If the coalition gets in at the next election there may be some nuclear options available

    • Sye on 27/01/2025 - 13:54
      +1

      Scientists are getting close to being able to harness all the hot air that politicians are full of to heat up water, which then turns into steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity.

  • whats up skip on 27/01/2025 - 12:06

    I would imagine that these units were being sold off cheap (below cost) as I suspect a manufacturer in China went out of business and this stock was just bought up cheap. It wouldn't be worth a business attempting to repair these, assuming suitable parts were available.

    I suspect that using the device while charging was too much for some part of the system and that is why it gave way. Of course it could be a faulty capacitor, but given the age this is less likely.

    • JimmyF on 27/01/2025 - 12:17

      I suspect that using the device while charging was too much for some part of the system and that is why it gave way. Of course it could be a faulty capacitor, but given the age this is less likely.

      Seems like they might have overloaded the charging circuit to me reading the update. There was no talk about the size of the solar panels connected to the system.

      My guess was too many volts/amps that the little chip couldn't get rid of the heat and gave up the ghost. Which is what the OP said looks like happened.

      So stick to the stock 100w charger and don't put a crazy amount of solar panels on it, and you'll be ok!

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