Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Power Station Review: Best Portable Power Bank?

We do some testing with the Jackery Explorer 500 power station, discuss its features, discuss the solar charging panels, and go over what I think of it overall.

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[drmaudio]

I fly for a living, and I can tell you that morning coffee is absolutely a safety of flight component.

[simontempler]

Best video I have seen on this product! Straight to the point without a lot of "lapse time" nonsense. Just what I was looking for ...Thanks!

[IdahoPatriot]

thank you for doing a prepping type video.

[lindagutierrez]

Definitely getting that coffee maker. I need my coffee. Ty so much. ❤

[scottw]

Just got the Honda/Jackery 290 for cpap machine for my wife while camping or emergencies. Just using 110v plug we got 3 nights but then bought a 12v cig light to ResMed cable and got 5 nights out of it. Cool battery.

[scottlamp]

This fall a tornado went through my town. I was forced to take a shower by the light of my S2R baton II and I had to make coffee off of the power inverter in my truck. I survived, barely.

[davydwalker]

I use mine to camp in my mini van in cold weather with a 12v electric blanket. Keeps me nice and warm!

[bufunga]

White boxers have a special place in my heart. RIP Keeps and Casper

[cuttheknot]

Merry Christmas, Michael & Family. Oh, you are currently tied with Paul Harrell @ 379K subscribers (just something I noticed today by chance). You both ought to be in the Millions for sure. This bugs me as I still do not understand YouTube in this regard. Well, you are in great company, nonetheless. Both of you work very hard at your channels; much more so than so many others. Two of the most pragmatic, well spoken, and interesting men out there, for sure. End of fan fest 2019, lol.

[kylebooher]

We just bought the rockpal 300w unit for emergencies as well. Mostly for keeping phones, flashlights and HAM radios charged.

[gunner]

I just watched this video. Coffee is important. While watching this video, i just ordered the Jackery 500 and the 100w solar panels. I am doing a cross counrty van trip in the next month or so, and I wont leave until the Jackery arrives. No more propane bottle system to have coffee in the morning. If the 500 is too much "juice", then Ill just have to start blending margaritas after driving for the day!!! 'Merica!

[mikethompson]

Mike there is also a $50.00 coupon on amazon. And you can do no interest payments for a year. That’s about $40.00 per month. Thanks for helping me spend my money.👍

[peterparadis]

To note: Litium Ion batteries have most of their power degradation when you deep cycle the battery. You will get a lot more lifetime out of the battery is you don't let it get below 10% of discharge. You will get a lot more than 500 cycles if don't let the battery drain all the way.

[N.I.T.R.O]

It will power a 5000 btu A/C window unit for over 3 hours still had 28% when power came back on

[dylancanada]

Awesome video! Your Channel is the best

[RT]

I was just looking at one of these. The portable power stations and solar panels to.charge them is definitely one of the more interesting things of the last 15-20 years. They really do change the game in terms of being off grid for camping, or even permanently. And if this thing really does use the same Tesla battery tech then their 80% claim is probably low. Possibly even very low. There isn't a huge amount of testing because of how new the tech is but the best we have shows that even the earliest Tesla's in real world usage are showing very little battery degradation. Under 5% after several years.

[dant]

I have a similar unit from a different manufacturer. I used two to run my 65” tv and Xbox during a power outage to watch movies.

[davesbrewing]

restive loads are very easy to run, the more important thing to test is how it will handle an inductive load IE anything with an AC motor.

[davidenorth]

We love ours, use it at shows to power IPads for sales for square transactions all day.

[bronxhouse]

On a side note. The FN 509 MRD compact was just released today by FN. look forward to that review. FDE please.