Jackery Solar Generator 1000 v2 with 200 W Solar Panel, 1070 Wh Portable Power Station LiFePO4 Battery, 1500 W AC/100 W USB-C Output, 1 Hr Fast Charge for Outdoor, Off-Grid Living, RV, Emergency

Hackers Solar Generator 1000v2 with 200W Solar panels is excellent and easy to use with many functionality features for AV, DC, USB and lights and 1000W is bonus! This Jackery 1000v2 solar generator is sleek design and easy to set up and use. The well constructed solar panels add to portability , as well as being durable. I love how you can use the panels recharge or recharge in a plug in AC. The generator is great to have if you have campers or RV or traveling and an assurance your are self contained with power . The luxury in store is that this unit can run: fans , electric blankets or charging laptops and devices and most any backup you may need. I love my Jackery1000 with Solar 200W.

This might have been one of my favorite purchases of the year. The overall cost was great since it is on sale at the moment. I have done a ton of research around which system to go with and this by far takes it. Worth every penny. The power is stable and works for all of my device needs. I am able to power a diesel heater overnight while camping for my family and have plenty of power to last a few more days without charging. The overall capacity of power can easily last several days depending on use. The weight is on the higher end so its not as travel friendly but if you are overlanding like I am, the weight is irrelevant. I wouldn't take this on a hike at all. The size was a little bigger than expected so again, it is meant to stay put while camping or as emergency backup at home. I live in an area where power outages do happen at least a couple times a year but I work remote from home. This Explorer 1000 has more than enough power to take my server (2 managed POE switches, multiple cameras, router, modem, and power distribution) plus my work computer and water heater to last at least the day. Accompanied with the solar cell, it can last several days.

My husband has been looking for a solar generator for some time, this one checked the boxes on everything he wants. We are able to use it to run our camper during the fall time where we don’t have to use the traditional generator. It is well made and the battery lasts. It has even been used at our house in instances where we have lost power for short periods of time. It is easy to carry around, light weight, and easy to use. I highly recommend it.

Mostly works as advertised. Some important points: Pictured is a home entertainment setup, you can see how long it would run with that. So you can figure whatever would draw the same amount of power (in watts), would last just as long (208 Watts draw lasting about 45 hours if you can't see from the pic). Note this "home theater" includes a 44" flatscreen Sony Bravia (older 2018 model) and a Bose sound bar, as well as an LED lamp providing light to the living room and a Wi-Fi router and cable box. This setup is nice during storms because it DOES operate as a UPS (uninterruptable power supply). This isn't clear from the manual's legalese, but it does keep the power on for a Wi-Fi router in the event of sudden power loss or spikes. Probably shouldn't use it for more sensitive electronics though as it's technically not rated as a UPS. Charging is super quiet even on the default setting. See the video (or listen) for yourself. This was a big concern for me because other power stations (from other companies) seem to have fan issues based on reviews for their products. This makes no noise, especially on the "quiet" setting, to be clear though, the video is right out of the box on the default charge setting. In my opinion the default setting is quiet enough. Another reviewer, can't remember if for this product or another one, said that you should be careful to set it to lower charging rate when you charge for the first time or you might trip a circuit breaker. This was not my experience, even on the default setting, it does draw up to about 800W (at first) but most circuits can handle that if you don't have anything else running on it like a hairdryer. I had other lesser devices (lamps, Alexa Dot, mini fan) on the circuit when I plugged this in to charge and it was fine to be clear. So don't worry about that. The biggest "concern" for one to note is charging via solar. YES it works but it's NOT as simple as the advertising makes it seem. It's simple to hook up but, most importantly, you have to keep the panel(s) aligned with the sun almost all the time or else the power input falls dramatically, even if only slightly misaligned. There's a level (circular) that you can use to align the panel with the sun; by making sure its shadow is in the center target, but again you have to constantly realign to get anything over 100 W input with the panel that comes with this package (200W one). To be fair, I got it up as high as 135W but that was just for a few minutes that by luck I happened to have it aligned almost perfectly with the sun near noon time. Yes, this means you only get half the amount the panel is rated to even when aligned with the summertime sun. (this was in July of last year) So plan accordingly (this is for the Mid-Atlantic region of the US so maybe in more southern locations it would perform better can't say definitely more north it's going to be even weaker especially if you're talking somewhere in Canada or Alaska obviously). I didn't bother to try in the winter; I can't imagine there'd be any significant production then at all at least not in most of the continental US (because of the tilt of the earth's axis at that time of year the sun isn't nearly as powerful) Secondly, to keep the sun so aligned as described above, it's tricky. Because the panel is quite unwieldy/bulky. It's not terribly heavy, just "awkward" to manipulate, mainly because of the issue shown in one of my pictures here. As you can see, the middle of the panel (set) tends to sag down, because the supports for the entire array are only on the ends. This sag, I discovered, causes a significant drop in wattage output. As a "workaround" I propped up the sagging middle with a rather large potted plant in the back as shown. After I did this, I finally got around 100W of production. This is a design flaw in my opinion, because again, the panels must be aligned to the sun or else the input from the panels to the generator will fall from about 100 W to barely 50W, even less if you (dare) to let it sit for more than an hour. It would be an improvement for them to make a panel with support for each panel section and also an alignment level that was present on each section, not just on one end. Bottom line, charging from about 33% to 93% took pretty much a whole day (about 6 hours), and this is, I suspect, mainly because of the alignment/sagging middle issues described above, not to mention of course that if the sun is blocked by a cloud then that dramatically affects production as well (but can't do anything about that). The day I tested this there were some clouds that did affect production, but it really couldn't have been sunnier for such a test. It's the design of the panels that's the biggest factor here, not the weather. It's a good bit of attentive work, in other words, it's not just setting the panels out and letting the sun give you free electricity while you sip drinks all day as the advertisements lead you to believe. When I finally discovered these issues and attended it as well as reasonable, it was about every 10-15 minutes of realigning the panels to keep the input at about 100W. This is the reason I only gave 4 stars - overall it's great for emergency use and charging off your outlet in your house. But the problems with charging from solar cost one star in this review. It's a very good indoor generator/power supply, as it's quiet, doesn't trip any circuits when charging, can last for days really depending on what you plug into it. A 350W refrigerator would probably last a day based on the output and estimated time shown in my home theater setup photo, but to be clear I didn't test a full-sized refrigerator. But it's just a matter of power output not what is plugged into it, so if 208 W output as shown can last 45 hours, a 350W refrigerator should be at least a day. It's just simple math. I did test a "mini fridge" and with that plugged in you can see how long it would last (22 W draw lasting 193 hours). Note though, with refrigerators you can't really rely upon that time estimate as the main power for refrigerators is when the compressor kicks in. Again, though it can't be less than a day since even if the compressor was constantly running, it would still be less than double the 208 W test shown. So probably at least a day for a 350 W refrigerator. At the very least a mini fridge can obviously last for days. In my opinion this product's strength is being such a great UPS for Wi-Fi/computers, and long lasting for things you'd want to run for an extended period, but it's really not reliable to "generate" power, via solar. Unless maybe you buy the 500W panel that might not take as much maintenance to keep a reasonable input rate. But those are like $800 extra. Just buy this for a backup for a storm that may knock power out for 24-48 hours, so your food doesn't go bad, or to ride out a thunderstorm so you can still be on a computer and still have Wi-Fi even during power surges or 48-hour power outages. Doing both (watching TV and running a fridge) seems like it could last for about a day. If you get a good deal with the "generator" and panels so you get both for the usual price of just the battery ("generator") then sure get both. Otherwise just buy the "generator" itself, don't bother with trying to charge it with solar just keep it charged with your own house power for emergency use. Final note (since buying an electric car I can answer this too) for anyone wondering this question: Yes this and other devices with output like this (1,500 W) or greater can charge an electric car but it's useless for it. Why? Because an electric car battery has a capacity like 80-100 kWh, this (and similar products) are only 1, 3, maybe 5 kWh capacity. So if you charge a car with this, not only will it take the better part of a day to do (because electric cars usually charge at a much faster rate; with this, the car would draw about 1,100 W so in theory works but it will be slow), but even when done you'll obviously only get the capacity of the battery/generator itself, which in this particular case is 1 kWh. Which is only good for 2-3 miles of driving. So you can do the math there.

Great little Jackery for emergency use (e.g. running a refrigerator). I tested the unit by hooking up a 1500W heater without having any issues. The power draw on the Jackery showed around 1350W and would last about .8 hours. Once the room temperature was reached the heater would shut off and not draw any power from the Jackery. I did this a few times and the power reserve on the Jackery went down to 73%. Then I tested the 200W solar panels and it worked fine to charge up the Jackery. I had set up the panels outside of my garage door, and the Jackery showed 195W input power. When I closed the garage door, the Jackery showed 209W, figuring the reflected light off the garage door (white) was hitting the back of the panels. I opened the garage door and it went back down to 195W. Closed the door again, up to 209W. I left it charging for over an hour to reach 100%. The Jackery App had notified me that the unit was fully charged. Very happy with this purchase which I will use for running a refrigerator during a power outage. Update 31Oct25 I purchased a bag from Amazon for carrying a folding table (25"x25"x4.7") for under $20, to carry the solar panels. I was able to fit the box that the solar panels was shipped in, into the bag as a protective barrier, along with the bubble wrap bag inside the box. The bag has long handles and shoulder strap to carry the 4 solar panels easier. I also used the $20 coupon from Jackery and purchased the Jackery bag for the solar generator for $32. The bag didn't have any pockets to pack the wiring, so I a little bummed about that. The wiring (home outlet charging and solar charging) can fit on top of the generator, in the bag. However, the bag is a bit taller to fit the 2000v2, not sure with that generator if there's space to fit the wires on top.