Bluetti EP500 Pro – after a year and a half

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Last update in: 11th March 2025, 08:24 pm

A year and a half ago, on August 2023, a review of Bluetti EP500 Pro was published. It recently struck me that while we publish reviews of these home energy storage systems from time to time, and also write about those new that reaches the market and private deals, we rarely write (or not?) About our long -term experiences with them. How do products stand up after years? How much do you lose over time? How much capacity you hold or leak while sitting in storage for a year or more? Is everything smooth and also worked on the 500th day as on day 10?

After all, if you want to rely on a large -term storage backup system, you want to hold well over time and want to be good like new if you take it out of the cabinet for a year or two after purchasing it.

Yes, it may be useful to conduct a 10 -year review of a product for a year and a half. But we have no battery storage systems for 10 years. I have the oldest one in Bluetti EP500 Pro. (Note: Although I can only stop and recommend the EP500 Pro model, I have just discovered the similar EP500 model, the most easy and the lowest amount of low capacity, and you can get a flash sale at the present time for the final units. Cost $ 3,499 after a discount of $ 500, and you can then get a 5 % discount with Code Cleantech5off also.

About 6 months ago, I pulled the Bluetti EP500 Pro from storage and fully carried out before Hurricane Milton injured. (Apology – I said that I thought Hurricane Helen was in the video below. It is difficult to track the names of the hurricane here in Florida.) It seems that the system is working as a new one year after the last time I tested and used it. We lost power for approximately 18 hours in a former hurricane, and we were happy that we would be able to operate the refrigerator, computers, television, phones, etc. when we were exposed to Milton. The hurricane has already passed through us, many logical images are torn from our ceiling and caused severe zero and the wind on our front door for several hours. Somehow, though, we have never lost power. I think about 92 % of our boycott in our facilities area lost power, but we did not. Therefore, Bluetti EP500 Pro did not have to do the heavy lifting we expected.

However, you do not want to leave a 100 % charged battery for a long time, so we used Bluetti EP500 Pro to operate computers and long phones enough to decline to approximately 50 %. I all worked as expected, just as it was when we got the product and tested it in the previous year. But I did not trust all of this. (We were very focused on other things.)

Therefore, I just pulled the system from the cabinet again and made some tests for this article. He was still sitting by 49 %, which I think I left. I got up to 50 %, which took only a few moments, then it took 10 minutes to add 5 % of the capacity of the normal 120V wall plug. Therefore, in theory, it will take 200 minutes to move from 0 % to 100 %, or 3 hours and 20 minutes. But I kept and endured it along the way to 100 %. Then it took a total of 1 hour and 25 minutes (an additional hour and 15 minutes) to reach 95 %, then it took another 10 minutes to reach 100 %. Therefore, this is one hour and 35 minutes to move from 50 % to 100 %.

Next, it took another and a half hours the computer and the phone for the system to decline to 95 % of 100 %. I have been using it during the past two days to charge computers and phones to try to get it to 50 % to store it again, and it is still 72 %.

So, yes, the system is still working great. There is still a lot of battery capacity and it seems that everything does what happened from the beginning. Bluetti EP500 Pro will be a savior in a hurricane or wildfire that strikes and expels power for several hours or days. I love this thing.