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DJI Power 2000: The Power Station That Becomes a Home Battery

Jonathan Tracey

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The DJI Power 2000 looks like another 2kWh portable power station — but it has a trick that made it much more interesting to me.

When we're away, I can use it as a conventional portable power station to charge our electric bikes and power equipment. But when we get home, instead of leaving that stored energy sitting unused in the shed, the Power 2000 can be connected to the house and used as a grid-tied battery.

In this video I put that feature to the test.

I look at the DJI Power 2000 as a portable power station, explain how its grid-tied energy storage mode works, have a fused spur installed for the UK connection, and then actually feed energy from the battery back into my home.

We also take a look at the DJI Home app, time-of-use charging and discharging, the 800W grid-tied output limit, expansion batteries and whether combining portable power with home energy storage actually makes sense.

⚡ IN THIS VIDEO

• Why I normally struggle to justify portable power stations
• Charging our electric bikes away from home
• 2,048Wh battery capacity
• Using the Power 2000 as a grid-tied home battery
• UK fused-spur installation
• Up to 800W grid-tied discharge
• DJI Home app and energy management
• Time-of-use charging and discharging
• Solar integration
• Expansion up to 22.5kWh
• The limitations you need to know about

One important UK point: feeding power back into your home is not simply a case of plugging the Power 2000 into a normal 13A socket. My installation uses a dedicated fused spur installed by a qualified electrician.

DJI supplied the Power 2000 featured in this video. DJI did not control my conclusions or what I said about the product.

I'll continue using the Power 2000 over the coming months both as a portable power station and as part of my home-energy setup, and I'll report back on how it performs in real-world use.

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20 Comments

@UncleBobbyBob 1 month ago (edited)

Excellent idea of yours!
Take a load of these on holiday to an Airbnb, charge them up there, and bring them back to use the free electricity at home - pure GENIUS!

@GeeN-29 1 month ago

I love my Power 2000, Have a Shelly EM Pro connected to my main tails and to my solar, it then diverts excess solar to the DJI if needed, when the sun goes down it looks at house load and will send power to the house upto 800w, in my configuration it never discharges to the Grid which is what I wanted. I can also use the front AC plugs whilst plugged into the mains and use the full power of the DJI without pulling from the grid but it still passes through any excess solar. It's a very clever setup.

@GorHol-r7e 1 month ago

Nice clear video ! There are so many of these devices out there nowadays, so hopefully it will help to drop the price ! 👍

@konstantinlozev2272 1 month ago (edited)

My electric bicycle battery is just 450Wh. Charging it won't be more expensive than playing on my gaming laptop in that B&B. And I certainly do play on my gaming laptop while on vacation. So, I would not worry about detaching my battery from my electric bicycle and charging it.

@robertbarnes2889 1 month ago

Good helpful video. Probably going for this over an ecoflow due to versatility. Was fed up with ecoflow being a powerstation OR a home battery. Always thought why not both.

@Northern-drone 7 days ago

Contacted a local electrician to hard wire mine for me,he said he needed the wiring diagram before he could do it, when I asked about pairing it with a Shelly he said he’d never fitted one,I had the feeling he wasn’t interested in this at all.

@livingladolcevita7318 1 month ago

2 to 3 days of cycling power? ha ha if you lived here, the Welsh valleys, probably 1 day. I used to be stationed at Wattisham near Ipswich. Loved it there. Not sure if I have asked you this before but I use to own a pedal assist but the battery didn't last long, wondering if they will ever have sodium versions to have longer discharge/recharge cycles. Anyway that power unit a great camping accessory.

@adamprice6415 1 month ago

If I could have used this in a power cut, then used a genny to boost it I would have brought one. I’ll go with the Anker c2000

@andysnowden4605 1 month ago (edited)

regulations are that you cannot remove the discharge plug without a tool. Which is also why you are asked to cut off the 13a plug and wire into a FCU.

@MrChristiangraham 1 month ago

I think if I hadn't already invested in a ecoflow stream I'd have gone this route, but seem to remember them coming out a few months after the stream.

@gavinwilkinson1602 9 days ago

Now you can discharge 880w through a ac plug or over with using spur to fuse box what would you go with was looking at the ecoflow 500 and the anker

@helixvonsmelix 1 month ago

My DJI 2000 can discharge 800W in to the house and power the 13A outlets at the same time.

@JosephLeNoach 1 month ago

Good information, great video - I'm not sure we can use as such in the US - Which sinks! I'm using the EcoFlow Stream which is fantastic, however it does not look like they will release the 5000 in the US which has a larger battery capacity- The struggle is real :(. I was excited to see this as a loyal DJI customer. Firmware Restrictions in the US- The firmware required to activate "Grid-Tied ESS Mode" (which allows the bidirectional cable to pump power back into the household wiring) is strictly geofenced and restricted to select European countries (like the UK, Germany, France, and Spain). DJI has not activated this grid-tied functionality for US models (model DYM2000L)

@XTR985 1 month ago

I have some of the 2000’s, I ended up choosing them over EcoFlow due to the versatility of a 3kw AC feature + the Grid Tie mode, so use at Home and our Holiday Home
Home I use off peak tariff , holiday home Folding solar
They have been great

@truckerallikatuk 1 month ago

The big question for the schedule mode is : How many scheduled tasks can you put in? And do they require the inertnet to work? The big limit on my Ecoflow is the lack of scheduled slots, it can only have a total of 5, for both charge and discharge. This makes life very tricky when you have more than the simple "Peak/off peak" pricing. And no, it's not a tariff that provides an API.

@philjameson292 4 weeks ago

So how did DJI get way with a plugin power station that can feed power back into the mains through it's plug when plugin batteries aren't yet allowed?

@GdaySport 1 month ago

Disabled 3 pin plugs while grid tied excludes this an an option for me...

@rickalders 1 month ago

Any idea if the US version can also export power? Plug in solar is starting to be adopted in several states and this could come in handy. Here, 1200 W seems to be the standard vs 800 W but even the lower output would work.

@julianfp1952 1 month ago

I'm a bit unsure about fused spur requirements for a plug-in battery. There are fused spurs connected to an existing ring main and there are fused spurs connected to their own dedicated breaker in a consumer unit. Not really much difference between the two in terms of installation time, cost and inconvenience if the fused spur that you want your electrician to install is right next to your consumer unit (and your consumer unit has space for the extra breaker) but a massive difference if you want the fused spur on the other side of the house or upstairs, i.e. there needs to be a long cable run to the consumer unit very possibly needing to rip-up and reinstate floorboards/carpet etc.

Are there any rules of thumb or guidelines about when a dedicated (own breaker) fused spur is needed vs a fused spur off an existing ring main? Is it OK to connect pretty much any unit to a fused spur on an existing ring main as long as the charge and output rates are below certain levels (maybe 2.4kW charge and 800W output) or do the authorities not always trust software limiting of an inverter's output so if the theoretical (not software limited) maximum power of an inverter in a unit is above a certain level then it is not legal to connect to a fused spur unless that fused spur has its own dedicated breaker?

I'm thinking specifically of the new Ecoflow 5000 by the way.

@Beaker159 1 month ago

Sounds like you cannot use as an UPS as grid tied and for UPS use you need a change over switch. Correct. Can all the settings be accessed via the front panel or Bluetooth connection, I do not want or need a cloud service running so I can set a discharge rate.