Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 1500 1534Wh Portable Generator with 3x110V 1800W AC Outlets Solar Mobile Lithium Battery

Nothing negative to say about the 1500 outside of it being *almost* to clunky and heavy to carry with the handle; kind of like a 30lb electric kettle bell. If you're older or don't have the best arm/core strength, this unit may be difficult to move around at times. Another possible downside (not for me) is the need to go all in with Jackery if you want to solar charge, as it needs Jackery panels (which are also great my 3 100watt panels charge the 1500 in about 7 hours in direct sunlight). Technical performance has been strong. This is a emergency home power source for me + solar power rig for my greenworks lawn tools to make my lawn care 100% grid free and green. I ran my double sided Kenmore fridge for 18 hours on a full charge and my chest freezer went 21 hours. I'm charging all 6 of my 4amh tool batteries with this weekly and still have enough juice to charge small electronics/phones all week before needing to charge it over the weekend. The display is great and easy to understand even for a novice like myself and the cording for charging sources requires zero instructions to figure out. It's quite and all around great. Won't be a whole home emergency/back up system, but can certainly keep essentials running in a grid failure. Read more

This thing is a true beast and it is the real deal. I bought this for emergency preparations for Hurricanes and extended power outages. This is a great solution to supplement with a gas generator or for short periods of power outages. My plan is to run the gas generator during the day and at night to sleep run the Jackery. This way I extend my gas supply and can sleep easier at night without having to wake up and check on the gas generator or put more gas or worry about thieves and can just have my necessities continue running on the Jackery. It is extremely portable although you do not want to move it around for long distances because you do feel the 35 lbs. Very strong and sturdy look and feel to the unit. Since I bought this for emergencies I quickly put real world live tests to it to see how it would up and for how long. My main concern and reason for buying this was for my full size fridge, couple fans, couple lights. So I tested with my full size fridge and a large fan overnight. The Jackery 1500 passed with flying colors. In the morning when I woke up it had been running for 8 hours and 10 minutes and it still had 17% battery left and stated 1 hour run time left. This fit my needs perfectly and what I wanted to accomplish. Keep in mind that it may not have lasted that long if the test would have been during the day time and with opening the fridge more consistently. But since I plan to use it at night to go to sleep it passed my test and needs. Obviously every situation could be different depending on size and power needs of the fridge but here are my full fridge power specs: 747 watts during the start up that would only last seconds, on idle watts was very low from about 40 watts down to even zero at times, when ice maker kicks on about 150 watts then drops back to idle, each time fridge door opens about 100 watts then falls back to idle when closed. So obviously me testing at night brought down all the times that the door would be opened thus reducing any temporary power pulls and helped extend the run time. Read more

I previously owned the Jackery 1000 and just purchased this 1500 knowing of the brand's great reputation. The unit is awesome! LOTS of power, yet it is not too heavy to easily carry. It will run my LED's, Signal Booster and large TV for an entire evening and then some. The new LCD screen readout is very slick and I really like how it shows how long you have left to charge it and how much runtime is left. The only disappointment was that it only comes with the one power supply for charging when it supports 2 for rapid charging. Not a big deal breaker though as you are still getting a fantastic unit for the typical dollar per watt hour price. I can definitely recommend this unit as well. Read more

The Jackery 1500 is a good looking, high functioning unit. I’m glad I got one, but I wish I fully understood the pros and cons before purchasing so my expectations were more realistic. Pros: Easy to store: small, fits easily into compact breathable space or next to essential equipment (do not put under upholstery or too close to a wall, it needs to breathe). Smart looking, blends in well with any tech. Easy to read LED panel: bright, well organized info taken in at a glance. Logical use of ports (with on/off switches for each grouping); most port groupings labeled AC or DC, only the charging ports are not labeled but still, pretty obvious how to use (only set of circular INPUTs). Battery charges relatively quickly. Discharges as expected. After fully charging and one week non-use, meter reads 99% so “decay” discharge is small — this will allow you to disconnect after a full charge and still have high charge for weeks after. Cons: Heavier than you think: that 33 lbs is meant to be carried with one hand, like a bowling ball bag (a challenge for those with back problems, maybe better to use two hands). You shouldn’t run the charge below 20%, yet there is no alert to warn you so you must keep an eye when you are getting close. Because you cannot run it below 20% charge, the time you think you will get for emergency use is less: if you calculate 1500 x .85 = 1275/X kwh (of appliance you plan to plug into it), and say X = 150, then expectation = 8.5 hours of use. But it’s really .8 x 8.5 = 6.8. So if you are getting this for power outage use, you will need to adjust expectations. Also, instructions say no problem leaving it plugged in all the time, but company advice is to unplug and let discharge slowly then periodically top off. I plan to charge mine monthly since it is for emergencies and don’t ever want to start below 95%. Read more