{"id":159,"date":"2022-09-04T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesolaraddict.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2022-09-05T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:28:14","slug":"goal-zero-yeti-400-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesolaraddict.com\/goal-zero-yeti-400-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Goal Zero Yeti 400 Power A TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Goal Zero Yeti 400 is a wonderful little power station. Perfect for not only campers and vandwellers, but also great as an emergency battery to keep at home in case you lose power.<\/p>\n
Before we get started about what a Yeti 400 can power and not, we need to understand that there are two Yeti 400’s. There is the No products found.<\/span>, and the Yeti 400 Lithium<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Post: How To Improve Yeti Power Stations Charging Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n To answer the title of the post, both the Yeti 400 and the Yeti 400 Lithium can power a TV, as long as that TV doesn’t use more than 300 watts. That is the most the inverter in the Yeti 400’s can handle continously.<\/p>\n Now, which one is the best out of the two? The Yeti 400 Lithium<\/a>, no doubt. It’s lighter, has a higher watt-hour capacity, uses a lithium battery, and it has an extra USB port.<\/p>\n The Yeti 400 Lithium has a 428 watt hour battery. If we, for example, look at a TV like the popular TCL 32S327 32-Inch 1080p<\/a>, it uses 45 watts at most.<\/p>\n Now, we need to remember that the Yeti 400 Lithium uses an inverter to turn the 12V battery power into 120V AC power, so we should predict some power loss. An 85% inverter efficiency is common.<\/p>\n So let’s do the math: 428*0.85=363.8\/45=8.08 hours<\/p>\n What this tells us is that you could expect a 45 watt TV to run for about 8 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n You could invest in a 12V TV like the Jensen JTV19DC<\/a>, wire it to a cigarette lighter power adapter<\/a> and plug it into the 12V output port on the Yeti as well.<\/p>\n This way the 85% inverter efficiency wouldn’t apply, although it still wouldn’t be 100% efficient.<\/p>\n The Jensen TV uses less than 2 amps, so since the Yeti 400 Lithium has a 39.6 amp hour battery, you could watch TV for almost 20 hours before running low<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Pair it with a compatible solar panel like the Rockpals 100W (click to view on Amazon)<\/a>, and you could watch TV all day without losing any battery on a sunny day.<\/p>\nHow Long Can The Yeti 400 Lithium Power A TV?<\/h2>\n