Who needs electrical outlets? DJI’s powerful new Expansion Battery gives you an 11 kWh setup for drone charging and more
DJI, the maker of the world’s best drones, has launched a powerful new add-on battery for its Power 1000 portable power station.
Those parts are obviously designed to provide you with a powerful power source to charge your various devices when you’re out in the wilderness. And the special thing about the Power 1000 is that it offers a special port for charging drones (DJI models, or otherwise with the right cable).
The new DJI Power Expansion Battery 2000 is exactly what the name suggests: an expansion battery that you can connect to the Power 1000 via a cable and stack neatly on top of the original unit.
The expansion module gives you a capacity of 2,048 Wh on top of the 1,024 Wh of the Power 1000, allowing it to be significantly increased to 3,072 Wh. Isn’t that enough for you?
Well, you can connect up to five of these expansion batteries together with the Power 1000, to get a maximum capacity of 11,264 Wh.
Of course, having a giant power bank with that kind of capacity when you’re on the road will go a long way toward keeping whatever you’re carrying charged, including a drone.
DJI notes that the expansion batteries are easy to stack and store, and the ports on the Power 1000 and Expansion Battery 2000 units are all on the same side. The expansion unit has just two SDC ports, for connecting to the Power 1000, and a second expansion battery if you connect an additional unit in series (and you can chain up to five together this way, as mentioned).
Coffee and an umbrella
DJI tells us that the Power Expansion Battery 2000 when combined with the Power 1000 can provide a continuous power supply of 2,400 W (and can be ramped up to 2,600 W for 15 minutes), meaning it can power 99% of everyday electrical appliances provided.
So, as the press photo above clearly illustrates, if you want to run your coffee machine on the beach, you can do so with these DJI batteries. Because everyone needs a good supply of steaming hot drinks when you’re on a steaming hot beach.
When charging the Power 1000 plus an expansion battery, DJI’s own figures indicate you can fast charge up to 1,024Wh in around 36 minutes, if you need a bit of juice quickly.
The DJI Power Expansion Battery 2000 will be available soon and will retail for $1,169 or £1,049 – so the upside, if you want five of them for a great setup, is that it will set you back over five thousand euros.
In our DJI Power 500 portable power station review we thought it was an impressive device, with that very handy trick of being able to charge your drones. Although if you don’t need the latter functionality, we’ve found there are better options among the best portable power stations.
