60% Off | Jackery HomePower 3000 Portable Power Station with AC Cable

The Jackery HomePower 3000 Portable a power Station is incredible. I could list all the things you can run but you can read that in the description. I did my homework and it’s the best set up for the price. I did get it on sale and with a coupon!Talk about heavy, I suggest investing in a wheel kit. The battery is very heavy yet not really large so is not awkward to carry short distances.I can’t speak for longevity because it’s according to what you are powering how long it will last.I can’t speak say that if you purchase a Jackery product you will be very happy with the durability and quality of their products.I purchased the 3000 model for dry camping and the unfortunate event that we should lose power at home.

Extremely versatile and useful!Here in America’s Heartland where tornados and football tailgate parties in the springtime, fishing trips and camping in the summertime and where freezing rain and ice storms are a reality in the winter, having instant available power for light, personal medical devices, keeping your phone charged, and in a pinch heat, is peace of mind. This unit runs a 40″ TV all day, at least I’ve never had to use the panels to charge it while watching the game. It runs my central furnace (conservatively) for three days, more than enough time and comfort to get the gas gennie up and running. For giggles I also tested it using the fridge and it lasted 5 hrs. The phone app is handy but be aware you can only monitor the unit while it’s powered up. The monitor panel/app is informative and shows available charge, and wattage draw during use and status while charging.I found this unit to be conveniently and adequately powerful enough for the money to be a very good value for an emergency stop-gap during severe weather and creature comforts when away from a power outlet.

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Very good product. A little pricey but worth the money. Very easy to setup, and it holds a full charge for a very, very long time. I had an issue with sending an unopened item back, but once I contacted the company, they addressed my concern immediately, and made me whole without questioning. Great customer service!

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We bought 5 of the 3000 units, two for us and 3 for immediate family members. We bought 2 1000 units for family members that the smaller unit made more sense for than the bigger 3000 units. We also bought the stackable expandable 2000 units with expansion packs hoping to run the house and well on it. And LOTS of solar panels so everyone had what they needed. All in one month during the sale. So when I right this review, it’s not based on one lemon unit, or just a complaint with little founding. We went all in and gained a LOT of experience in a short time. None of it was good.The 2000 units, stackable expanded, are advertised to be able to run a house, could not. We only have 2 refrigerators and hot water heater, and the well. It could not run the well. Even though we bought all the expanded power needed it was not high enough. we were not trying to run an air conditioner, or something big. (not even the hot water heater or a stove hot plate). Just enough to get through a hurricane more easily. But water is key. it’s a regular 1 horse pump, not an industrial well. So if you are looking for a house back up unit look else where. Thankfully that one was easy to return, just time consuming.Out of the 5 (FIVE) 3,000 units we bought, 2 were bad. TWO. That’s a lot. We charged them, and then put 1 (ONE) normal new and newer house midsize refrigerator on each and both were dead in under 24 hours. we charged them and tried again and they worked for even less time. We charged and then took a battery charger to charge 4 (FOUR) AA batteries (energizer brand) and it took 20% of the jackery’s power to charge 4 AA batteries. Something is very wrong. but it gets worse. we fought customer service to send the two defective units back. They needed us to to the math for them to show how and why the 20% of the entire jackery to charge 4 AA batteries was not normal and that less than 24 hours on a house fridge was not right. The onus was on us and it took a while and quite a few photos back and forth to explain to them what a AA battery was. That was confusing. Where ever their support folks are, they don’t know what AA batteries are, what they power, how much power they hold, and why 20% of the jackery isn’t right to just charge 4. (Energizer, not no name brand) Once we won that war and got a battery and math education so we could fight it, they allowed us to return the TWO 3000 units, but took 6 weeks to send us replacements. So a total of 10 weeks after we purchased the units, we received our units – and they were obviously used and also did not work. One does not hold a charge and smells TERRIBLE when it is on – so bad it gave me a headache and we had to air out the whole house, the other one the back door will not close and the front plugs don’t work (yes, I know to push the button to turn them on. it does not work) so we asked for our money back and they said we are past the 30 day policy but they will buy them back from us for $800 (likely where these two came from). We spent $3,000 on them, each, and they admittedly agreed per their offer that these “new” units are really only worth $800, hence their offer. Ironically, we have two prymax units that were $900 and $500 (on sale), same power capacity as these jackery units but I was sold on the battery life pitch and thought they would last longer than the prymax. I wish we just stuck with pyrmax.Now we are stuck with 2 3000 units that don’t work at all (The “new” obviously used units they sent to replace the 2 new units that didn’t work) So out of a total of 7 SEVEN 3000 units all together that passed through our family 4 FOUR are broken. Of the 2000 expandable unit, it cannot power what it says it can on their website, so that was no good. and the two 1,000 units have been good for what they do.Just a note, we own 2 prymax because our electric goes out in storms often and we need to be able to keep working even when it’s raining or storming. So we use them often. we will get a three or four hour storm once or twice a week, and these units on one charge will run the laptop and speakers and internet (not much!) for weeks before needing to be charged. The Jackery would not run the same laptop, speakers and internet for two storms (when it worked for a short time) There is something wrong with the way it discharges electricity and that can hurt the computer. Plus the smell is unbearable when they run. The prymax got hot and the fan is loud, but it out performs. (Sorry those two names are the only ones we’ve had experience with. I’m not promoting prymax, just comparing our experience.)Just passing on the information for the next person to be able to make an educated decision on what to try if they are looking for a solar unit.

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I bought mine directly from Jackery. The first one that arrived would be charging and then just shut off randomly. I’d have to unplug the solar panels, replug them in, and sometimes it would start charging again and sometimes not. I thought the unit was defective (and it may have been), so I exchanged it for another one. I live at the beach where it’s overcast a lot. When I try to charge on overcast days, I get very little output from the panels, which isn’t too surprising, but there’s a major design flaw related to that. Jackery likes to point out that their solar panels are a few percent more efficient than the competition, yet what I’ve discovered is that if the panels are putting out less than around 20W of power, the Jackery unit just shuts off, as if the reasoning was, “It’s just 20W, why bother?” For those of us who don’t live in sunny places, this is a big deal. Why strive to get just a few percent more efficient in your panels than the competition and then throw away 20W of power? That doesn’t make any sense to me.The other thing I dislike about this product is the price. If you compare the cost of those SolarSaga 200 panels to similar no-name panels on Amazon, you’ll see the SolarSaga 200’s cost more than twice what very similar products from no-name competitors cost. Perhaps you get what you pay for, but 2x cost difference is huge. The panels retail for $699 for ONE PANEL! Jackery puts them on sale for $200 off, but that’s still 2x the competition.You can have a total of up to 6 panels in your system, but to do that, you have to buy two three-way splitters so that you can plug in 3 panels per side, and those small three-way splitters are $75 each! So to expand beyond the two panels that come with it, you’ll need to spend 2 x $75 = $150 more, plus the cost of the additional panels. Similarly, if you’re going to want longer cables between the panels and the base unit than come with it, they charge something like $50 each for those cables.So if you want to invest in this system, be prepared to keep shelling out top dollar for any accessory or add-on if you get it from Jackery.Alright, enough with the negative aspects. What do I like about this system? A lot. When the sun was shining, the battery unit charged up pretty quickly.You can draw 3,000 Watts from this thing continuously and up to 6,000 Watts peak. So you can run two 1,500 Watt blow dryers (don’t know why you’d want to) at once from it. Try that on a single circuit at home and you’ll likely trip a breaker.It’s got 3,000 Watt/hours of power storage. So that means you could run two blow dryers at the same time for an hour with a full charge. Again, not sure why’d you’d want to, but blow dryers are something that everyone is familiar with and we’ve all tripped a breaker using them at home, so I use them as examples of something you’re familiar with that draws a lot of power.I have a 4.3 cubic foot refrigerator that has a low power consumption rate and the fully charged Jackery will power that refrigerator for ~36 hours. So if you were camping or in an emergency situation, you could have a small-medium refrigerator and freezer running 24/7 with power to spare if you charge the Jackery to full charge during the day.Jackery has a free app that allows you to connect with your unit remotely via WiFi from anywhere or via BlueTooth if you’re out of WiFi range. The app is great, as you can see exactly what you’ll see on the front panel of the base unit, which is a very intuitive display that does a lot of math for you. For example, it displays what percentage of a full charge the battery pack has at the moment. If you’ve got your solar panels hooked up, it will also show you how many Watts are coming in and how long it will take to achieve a full charge at the current rate of charging.There are three ways of charging the unit up:1) Off wall current (which is fast, but pick a circuit on your house that doesn’t have any major appliances running on it or else you might trip your circuit breaker; this thing really sucks the juice and charges fast).2) Off the solar panels3) Via a 12V cigarette lighter adapter for your carI like the convenience of these three options.As far as power output, there are many options on the base unit:1) There are four A/C plugs for plugging in anything you’d normally plug into your wall outlet inside the house2) There is another A/C plug for high power devices like an electric clothes dryer3) There is a cigarette lighter port for plugging in things that you would plug into the cigarette lighter of your car4) There are two USB A ports (the ones most older electronics use for charging phones, tablets, etc.)5) There are two USB C ports (the new, smaller ports that modern electronics use for charging)When you’re drawing power from any of these ports, the amount of time remaining before you exhaust all of the energy stored in the Jackery will be displayed and, like all of the stats it displays, they’re updated in real-time.All of this is displayed via the app as well. The app is great for setting up your unit charging, and then you can go off and do other things and use the app to check in on the charging to see how much longer until it’s done, without having to physically go to the unit to look. Similarly, you can be drawing power off the Jackery to power things and remotely (via the app) see how much power is left and how much time at the current draw rate before you run out of juice.Overall, this is a very well designed product. I’d call it the Cadillac of portable solar power stations. My only complaints are:1) Why do they brag about the slight percentage advantage in panel efficiency they have over their competitors and then throw away a trickle charge (<20 Watts) that they could/should be using?2) Why is everything about this product SO ridiculously expensive compared to competitive products? Again, maybe you get what you pay for, but the price difference is pretty severe.Overall, I do recommend this product if you live in a sunny location and have a lot of money to spend on a really nice system.

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