I'm thinking of pulling the trigger and getting a 1000w V2 Jackery portable power station while they're on sale the next day or so. Anyone have any experience with these? Or a recommendations for another brand? Seems like the price at around $450 on sale is hard to beat right now.

Initially I would not need a solar panel although we might add one later.

I would say to consider checking the Bluetti, Pecron, and Ecoflow websites before you make your purchase decision.

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I have the Explorer 1000 and love it. Holds a charge forever, and has always worked as expected. Zero regrets and I'm considering getting another one over Black Friday.

I bought 2 EcoFLow DELTA 2 Power Station; 1024 Whr last year during Amazon Black Friday for $399 ea. They have been great for me.

Have my kitchen fridge plugged into one, and my basement fridge plugged into the other. I have lots of short blips/outages since I live in the country, never had any issues.

Also bought 2 portable Anker 521 Portable Power Station; 256Wh 6-Port PowerHouse, 300W (Peak 600W), I can recommend them too. Plug my portable freezer into them for the 3 hr trip to ABQ for groceries and ice cream.

Caladan said:

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I would say to consider checking the Bluetti, Pecron, and Ecoflow websites before you make your purchase decision.

C

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thanks. I've looked through those now. Any reason to choose one over the other? Pecron seems the cheapest right now by a small margin but the poor english on the website makes me question it a bit. It's also bigger and heavier.

Bluetti and Ecoflow don't have better deals right now. Are either significantly better?

I have a Jackery 1500 that I've had for several years now. Appears they don't sell it now, its a 2000 version. I do not have the solar panels for it. Essentially bought it to run my cpap so i could turn the generator off at night.

Pretty much works as advertised and have used it several times due to severe storms. Its nice to know if something goes bad its easy to get through the night, charge phones and then deal with the situation in the AM.

Anker Solix has a new model coming out soon that will be $429.00 when released. You might look into that one as well.

In case you have yet to pull the trigger, I just noticed today that Amazon has an Anker Solix 1200w power station for $349.

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Caladan said:

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In case you have yet to pull the trigger, I just noticed today that Amazon has an Anker Solix 1200w power station for $349.

C

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appreciate the heads up but we already got the Jackery. I got the 1070Wh version of the Jackery. Hopefully it works out ok. A couple of employees will be using it at a show this weekend so I'll get some feedback on Monday about how it worked for them.

We bought the biggest jackery last year on black friday. It has been awesome. Will probably buy a 2nd one this year on black friday. It was either 50 or 60% off.

Goodest Poster said:

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We bought the biggest jackery last year on black friday. It has been awesome. Will probably buy a 2nd one this year on black friday. It was either 50 or 60% off.

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Is it one that you can buy additional battery only units for?

Im starting to lean in that direction even though we have a generator. But its also currently in the shop for a repair. Would be nice to have 2 options.