Portable Power Station Explorer 500, 518Wh Outdoor Solar Generator Mobile Lithium Battery Pack with 110V/500W AC Outlet for Home Use, Emergency Backup,Road Trip Camping (Solar Panel Optional)

Okay, I will start out by saying I am a U.S Service-member with over twenty years of Honorable service. With that being said I’ve done multiple tours to almost every desert in the Middle East, tours in tropical environments, tours in some pretty secluded off grid undisclosed locations. I only put this out there because I’ve had the pleasure of being a Jackery customer for years and years and the Jackery 240 portable power station, , the Jackery Solar Saga 60w tri-fold panels, and the small Jackery portable chargers were compact and lightweight enough to fit into my pack with ease and leave me room for the other essentials. Imagine being in the middle of nowhere and have a weeks worth of power at your fingertips for recharges, lights, portable fans, small burner for coffee and cooking. Then being able to say it never failed you, always recharged quickly, and has been through the worlds harshest conditions and environments, yet functions like the day you pulled it out of the box. So this began my Jackery passion. Which led me to purchase the Jackery 500. Everything I’ve said above applies to the 500 ten fold folks. Being Military my pay isn’t great so I’ve had to accumulate these items over the course of years, however never have I had to justify spending the money to my wife, as long as I said the word Jackery. Because she’s used the items as well here at home guard. My son plays Football and daughter plays soccer in the Nevada desert just miles away from where the annual Burning Man event is held. Hot dry desert climate, no trees for shade, just direct unrelenting heat. This genius woman, the love of my life used our Jackery Portable power stations to run dual fans, and a small refrigerated trucker cooler during daytime practices in a pop up sunshade tent, all neatly placed in one of those little soccer mom wheeled totes, and a folding low loveseat chair. Talk about super mom, with lots of friends who also wanted to stay cool. Then when night fell and the kids weren’t finished with practice, my lovely wife handed over the Jackery 500 to the coaches who then plugged LED lights into it and lit up the field for the kids giving us an extra hour or two to practice without the heat. This convinced her to give me permission to buy the SolarSaga 100w panels. Money was tight but she gave me the go ahead and we’ve never looked back and haven’t got an ounce of regret or buyers remorse for a single product. But this review is neither for the the Jackery 240, the Jackery 1000, the SolarSaga 100w or 60w panels. It’s not even for the Jackery portable chargers. This review is to let you know, the day the Jackery 500w Portable Power Station became available we did not hesitate for a second to buy it. With the stories we heard from friends about California and Washington power outages, the Covid-19 Pandemic, and any one of the many RV trips we take into Gods country to get away from it all for a few weeks, we both agreed this was the best thing for our family. Why use heavy loud generators, carry fuel, deal with all that monotonous nonsense, when you could literally live off the Jackery Families products. I say Family because over the years I’ve had multiple email contacts and numerous phone calls with them, and every interaction was amazing. Courteous, professional, and the products are literally second to none. The Jackery 1000 is my newest addition and there’s nothing I can say about it that the 240 or 500 don’t already represent. Twice the power, twice the life, multiple solar panel options, can recharge through car, wall, or good ol sunshine. I could get technical and go down the path as some of these reviewers do, but you anyone can read the box. I can sum everything the box says by just telling you that these products, put out by this amazing company, can enhance anyone’s life, save somebodies life, and will probably last your the rest of yours. It’s a no brainer for us. I’ve purchased every product so far with a smile knowing its perfect and the people handing it to me care enough to treat you as if you were family.

After one week of use, I'd like to share some details around this device since I often use the reviews to learn more about a product before buying. I hope this helps someone. I'll update this as necessary with new experiences with the unit. The Jackery 500 seems to be a well built solid unit. It arrived with nearly 40% of the battery charged, and I plugged it in for a few hours inside the house to bring it to 99% (does seem to ever actually read 100%). What I really love about this device is the display that shows power in and power out so that I'm always certain where I'm at. I also appreciate that is has pass-through charging, which allows you to charge the battery while you have things connected to it. Not all devices do this, so if it's important to you, make sure to check this before you buy a similar device. When plugged into the wall via the included AC adapter, it shows a power input of 85W. I connected it to the Jackery SolarSaga 100W panels (not included) in New England at about 3pm in April (lowering sun), and it charged at 55W for about an hour before it started dropping as I lost sun. I have not had an opportunity to test the panels in full sun yet, nor have I tried the included 12V DC vehicle adapter to charge it. One of the things I was most interested in before purchasing was what kind of power was consumed by things I'd commonly use this for, so here's what I've found so far that might help you: - My iPhone (USB), when not fully charged, draws 12W from the unit. When it's charged up, that number drops to 2-3W. - My Apple Watch (USB) draws 1W using the magnetic charger. - The included flashlight draws 1W, but sometimes won't register even that. I also have run my Resmed AirSense 10 (CPAP) off of this unit for two nights. When plugged into the 110V plug using the adapter that comes with the CPAP, it draws 45W when running (3-5W when in standby). Based on a number of other reviews, I purchased the 12V DC Adapter for my CPAP and used that instead, and it now draws just 20W when running. It uses just under 20% of the battery when running for about 7 hours. If your numbers are similar, you should safely be able to get four full nights of sleep on this unit safely, or five if you're stretching it a bit, without having to charge the device. The battery almost never makes a noise. I've had the fan kick on just once when I was messing around with checking out the load I could put on it, but even that was as quiet as a laptop fan. I've had no issues sleeping with the unit a few feet from my bed. I'll close the review with the math I learned as part of this purchase so you can work out how this meets your needs for power consumption: - The battery "holds" 518 Watt Hours (Wh) of charge ready to give to your devices. - For any device you want to connect, first figure out how many watts ("W") it uses (normally on a label or in the manual). If you only have the Amps and Volts, multiply those numbers to get the watts (e.g. 5V, 2.4A = 12W). - Now you know how much power you have, and how much you need, so divide 518 (your Wh) by the watts needed, and you know how long it'll power your device. Example, my CPAP draws 20W, so from a full charge I'll have 518/20=~26 hours of use. Some caveats to this math: - The device itself seems to use just a small amount of power to run, show the display, etc., so give yourself padding. - Not all devices use the full wattage 100% of the time, so you may have more than you think (e.g. my iPhone stops pulling 12W after it's fully charged). - Some devices like a mini-fridge needs more power to start or run a compressor for short periods of time and then less at idle. There are some calculators online to help work this out. - You cannot power devices that require more than 500W.

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A group of us guys wanted to get the perfect gift for our camping and outdoor enthusiast friend and we landed on this for a multitude of reasons. First off, the build and quality feels very commercial grade and able to withstand some good usage. The design is rugged yet aesthetically looks modern and contemporary but clearly it means business given how many multiple output and charging options it has. The backlit screen is clear and shows all essential information such as charge and discharge rates, battery state of charge and etc. Check out the video for the unit walk around and how it looks up close. Given what it can handle, it's still incredibly portable (very solid weight to power ratio) and easy to move around with no nonsense exterior bits to break off or anything protruding. One of the main reasons we sprung for this is its ability to be paired with a solar panel to charge it in that way - this is an option that is only available on higher end units. For those who are true camping off the grid for an extended period of time this is essential and lets you not have to draw from your vehicles power. The solar charging, as expected, is the longest method in charging which brings me to the next point - it's ability for pass through charging which renders that not as significant. I didn't find that stated as much until I found out, but it's a feature that not every unit has but one that's very important. You needn't have it at full charge or off charge to be able to use it because you can power devices while that's happening. Basically you can be charging the power station with a solar panel and at the same be charging all your other goods - it's a bigger deal than one would think. Pro tip: you'll get fantastic performance through the 12v port so if you have the option to, get items that use that as its source. The reason for this is that the 12v port has a boost regulator, which means that no matter what state the batter is in (even if it's low) it'll still output the same power no matter what which is something many solar generators does not do. The usefulness of something of this grade is pretty endless. My partner got it confused with looked to be a similar product at costco but if you know your stuff, the specs are exponentially different - the 500 watts is continuous power (with a 1000 peak) so it can pretty much power any steady device. Aside from the most obvious of devices you'd want to power (laptop, phones, tablets, etc), the list just goes on - electric blankets, specific fridges, tool batteries, fans, grills, tvs, video consoles, small blenders, pumps, small heaters an even a cpap machine and a e scooter! In operation it's quiet with barely a hum and using the volt adapter will turn on the cooling fan. Even more hard to please electronics we've randomly plugged in have been fine, and we'll test in the future with an oscillator and update. Aside from camping use, he'll be bringing this to the burning man festival to use full time in his adventure roadtrip van so that's quite a bonus. He can now ditch having to lug around liters of gas or a big watt inverter generator making the entire experience that much more eco conscious not to mention lightening the load. Additionally, while it's great for the big events, this is going to get a lot of use for a wide range of regular every day events such as tailgate partys, roadtrip and just general outdoor excursions. It's even great to have around for emergency purposes. We have a very satisfied recipient and we're glad such a product exists - highly recommend!

We just received our Jackery 500. Although we haven't had the chance to use it yet, both hubby and I felt it was a very well made power station. It arrived with a charge of 34% and took about 5 hours to fully charge it from a household plug-in. This was expected. We purchased it to use when camping without power. It will provide us the ability to keep devices charged and run some lights for us. Until we use it, we won't know it's full capability. We chose this brand after watching it being used by a popular YouTube personality who does outdoor activities. It impressed us.

I’ve had it for 2 years. I use a 100W Renogy solar panel to charge it.It has worked flawlessly and charges easily during the day.. it obviously needs sun to get it to 100%. I use it at the cabin and with 100% charge it will run 3 lights, a TV dvd and a mini fridge. So over a 24 hr period it will bring the charge down to 20% or less. The fridge is 2.5 cu ft and on lowest setting which still keeps things cold and the small built in freezer freezing things. I have bought a Jackery 1000 V2 on sale (1/2 price… watch for the Black Friday and Prime Day sales) to run just the mini fridge and each Jackery with its own 100W solar panel for charging. I have a small inverter generator for those cloudy days to charge up the Jackery’s… at least you don’t have the annoying generator sounds at night.

I brought the Jackery 500 with me to a week-long music festival, and it ended up being one of the best things I packed. The capacity was more than enough to keep all my portables (phone, speaker, lights, etc.) charged for the whole week without running out. The built-in light was surprisingly handy too—it lit up my camp when I needed it and saved me from fumbling for a flashlight. Another big plus was how quickly it charged my Samsung—way faster than I expected from a power station. The only downsides for me are that it only comes with one AC outlet, and there aren’t any USB-C ports, which feels a bit limiting given how many devices use USB-C now. Not dealbreakers, but definitely something I hope Jackery updates in future versions. Overall, though, I’m really happy with it. Reliable, durable, and a lifesaver when you’re off-grid for days.