r/Jackery

amazon has jackery 2000 v2 for $799 and costco has 1500 v2 with 100w solar panel for $799.

this will be my first purchase of any power station of this size. this of course will be for an “in case of emergency” situations. would i be missing out on anything good without the extra 500? 1500 + solar panel over the 2000?

thanks

What am I doing wrong? I connect it to bluetooth in the morning, it's great for a good chunk of the day, and by evening, it's no longer connected on the app. It says Device Offline. I don't even leave the house sometimes and it still does it.

My internet is spotty. Is it supposed to disconnect when the internet is off? Why do I have to be right next to it EVERY morning to reconnect it to bluetooth?

I know jackery specifically does not recommend using outside solar panels. But see some users here using other panels. Im worried about safety?

Buuut I do happen to have 4 rich solar brand panels, and if I could use them to charge my jackery Explorer 1500, that would be awesome. The cable names are confusing. What would I need to connect these things?

I recently acquired an off grid property and have been trying to figure out how to get usable power there. My cabin is in Northern Maine. I purchased the 3600 to power the few things in the cabin. Lights, starlink, coffee maker. When I started looking at solar charging options I was overwhelmed. What I landed on I figured could help others with the same unit.

I got 4 - RSP250DCT-US panels from Renogy. As the Jackery has dual inputs, I connected these as 2 groups of two panels, with each group wired in series. I have connected them to a shutoff switch, (for safety when I'm away) then to the Jackery.

These panels are Bifacial, and specs are: 44.7V VOC, 12.81A IMP, totaling a max of about 1000W.

I know that the Jackery is only rated for 12A, however the charge controller will only "take" what it can from the panels. I have not seen the input wattage exceed 900w yet.

Hope this helps someone!

Hi all, spouse and I are moving to an area with mediocre power (that costs a lot). She'd like to have a backup system waiting when we arrive, and I agree that it's good risk management.

Our current plan is 2 Jackery 2000s with 2 200W solar panels. This would let us run essentials in the house off 1 of the 2000s and charge the other with panels, swapping each evening. We'd be running a Starlink (or cable modem/wifi), 2-3 monitors and a desktop, and some fans off the 2000. We would use this to save electricity $$ during normal times. After a natural disaster, it's possible that we'd need to run the house for 2 weeks or so off of this; we would do without AC and figure out if the fridge is correct or not.

Question: is this a reasonable amount of power for this application, or should we go for a 500W solar charger and 2 3000s?

Second question: Does the 2000 have the hardware necessary to be a house generator (instead of just having some stuff plugged into it)? From what I see, the 3000 does. There might be a tax credit for E-only house generators, but we'd need to show plans with the manual transfer switch.

Thanks for helping us wade through the options!

Hi all, I'm reading that some people are not charging to 100% and setting the units to only reach about 80% or so. Can anyone explain this? I thought that 100% was only for storage conditions with month of time between uses. I am cycling mine every day 100% down to as low as 20%

Should I be cycling 80% to 20%?

Found one on marketplace for sale, thanks!

Connected my two 1000 Plus Battery Packs (properly) to my main unit. The main unit shows 67% and 0.7 h left while the Battery Packs are at 90 and 89% left. I just don't think the packs are feeding the main properly.

And again, they were connected properly - I run this setup all the time.

Thoughts?

the input into the jackery snapped off. lots of replacement cables ava on Amazon, but none with the proper panel connection. I’m also not seeing the cable on the Jackery websit. panels are under warranty but cus service is closed today. any advice on finding a replacement cabl?

Hi all. I am someone with severe storm and power outage anxiety and enough is enough. I am looking for a generator or two(?) to power at least two rooms in my house for $5k or under. Any recommendations? Thank you all!

I've been wanting a solar generator for some time and after researching, I've landed on the Jackery. I'll be using it for Frigidaire 6.5 c feet stand up freezer (would love if it would power my large fridge, but I doubt it). I'm looking at the 1000 v2, and trying to decide between 1 100w, 2 110w, or 1 220w panel to go with it. It's going to be used in case of emergency power outage situations to keep my freezer going.

Looking at the different options and reading the threads here, I've become completely overwhelmed and could use some recommendations if anyone is willing to suggest them.

I have an ongoing case with support and it seems they just don't understand what I'm talking about. My jackery Explorer 1000 plus is being used as a power backup to run some of the items on my reef aquarium should I have a power outage. I've had an issue twice where I was out of town and the power at my house had gone off for about 5-10 minutes. The app said the jackery was not connected. The jackery never came back online. When I got home I used the manual process to turn the Wi-Fi back on and was able to get it reconnected. This happened a second time where my internet went out for about 10 minutes while I was home and when the internet came back the jackery did not reconnect, I had to manually reconnect it. I reset the entire unit and reset the whole thing up again but now I'm concerned that this is just how this thing works which makes no sense. Even my cheap aquarium devices from China automatically reconnect to the internet after a power outage or internet outage.

The customer support person keeps wanting videos of the problem or instructing me on how to manually reconnect and I keep telling them I know how to manually reconnect and videos aren't going to show you anything, but they don't seem to understand what I'm telling them. I've read posts from a couple people saying after 5 minutes of no Wi-Fi signal, it stops trying to reconnect and will never turn back on on its own. I find it so hard to believe that an expensive device like this is intended to work like that. The entire point is you're using this thing when there's no power so what's the point of having Wi-Fi in it if after there's no power the Wi-Fi doesn't work anymore. If that is the case I'm going to have to get rid of this because it's useless to me if I can't monitor the power situation if I'm not home to reset it. Is this honestly how this thing is supposed to work? I can't seem to get a straight answer from anybody at Jackery.

I struggle at figuring out what my Jackery can power and for how long. Is there some sort of guide to that? I can’t seem to find anything. All I know is I can make 3 pots of coffee with my 5 cup coffee maker. lol

I’d like to use it for my sewing machine which is 72 watts but wondering if it’s worth packing everything up.

Is this the norm for you guys? I’m using it to power a small tv and just wanted to make sure that this is a normal case of battery power.

Hi, does anyone know what couriers will take brand new Jackery solar generators in the post? I need to return one to Jackery (we are paying for the postage). Thanks.