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After watching your review several times, and researching this, I just bought one from your link. Thanks for the promo code, saved me $50.00! Very excited to have this for my travels and to take at my cabin. Thanks for the reviews on quality products! I have my eye on a couple of your prints too!. Love this channel.
Lithium polymer and lithium ion are not affected by any over discharge like old nicads are. Use it until it’s almost completely discharged. You’ll be fine
Thanks Jon, I have read a few places that said it still wasn't good to fully discharge lithium, but they could handle being discharged to 20% to 30% vs other types of batteries that you really don't want to go below 50%, so I am just playing it on the safe side. Jason
It's amazing how small battery sizes have shrunk just compare the Battery Drills from old to new. Also extending the available power up time. Thanks for the Heads-up...
Just want to let you know I received my Jackery and I love it. I have been using it for several days and this thing is a BEAST! Charging cells, kindels, chromebook, laptop, radio, 2 way radios, wow! Thanks for this review! Fantastic product Jason.
1. You can discharge a Jackery down to zero and it does no harm to the unit. 2. Because there is an internal controller, you can use almost any solar panel to charge the Jackery.
I own the same model and it did great over a weekend without a source of power to recharge it. We used it for phones, tablets and cameras but it recharged the whole weekend for all four of us. I recently added the Jackery 50w solar panel and hope to test it out soon.
Good job on this video sir, I am looking forward to your year long review of this unit. Keep us posted as you continue to use it out in the field, we have a little off grid cabin and this may well be a great solution for us there. Thanks again for sharing and have a blessed weekend. Dale
That looks like a pretty nice unit to have with you when you travel with devices that require charging and a little extra power to operate. Thanks for your review on this my friend. It is definitely work considering.
Just found your channel. Love your videos. Thanks for the review. I travel tons for business and also love the outdoors. I’d love to have a set up like yours and stay at state parks versus hotels. I could have best if both worlds ha!
I have been thinking about solar recharging unit for all of my devices and have actually already got an entire Jackery package in my Amazon cart, just waiting to pull the trigger. I saw your videos about your system and I am gong to watch all three for tips and suggestions. Thanks!
I have the Jackery 240 and the Jackery Solar Saga 60. When using the solar Saga 60 I get between 45w and 55w. I do live at around 8000ft above sea level. When I bought it in early 2020 every review out there said that all charging is capped at 40w. The 12 V and AC charging IS capped at 40w, but it was nice to find out after using it that solar charging is not capped at 40w. At 55w it takes about 4 hours to charge.
Jason please show and tell us dog lovers about what you feed your dogs with raw diets.what you will and will not feed them. Show small clips or one long one. They look so healthy! Thanks
Now that it’s getting colder I’m considering getting this. Do you think I could use the Jackery with a 12 volt electric blanket? I wouldn’t be using it all night, only to warm things up just before going to bed. I’m fine with a good sleeping bag, but my girlfriend and her son sleep colder than I do. Thanks for all the great videos!
jason, i don't know about electricity at all, but with you being out in the boonies most of the time, wouldn't it be beneficial to have the solar panel to charge it during the daytime when you probably wouldn't using the jackery as much, if at all? since i do not know about electricity, i'm just curious about this.
I think you would be able to run your laptop much longer if you had a DC charger plug for it instead of using your AC adapter brick. The laptop is already running DC, so by plugging your AC adapter into the Jackery, you are converting DC power (Jackery) to AC and then back to DC (laptop).
You can run your laptop if you have the Intel Atom quad core not powerful but it has awesome power usage little as 2 watts. Check the Chuwi laptop it like 269.99 not powerful for basic need and low watts.
Hey Jason, when you use this to power your fridge overnight (in the Kia) does it stay on? I read somewhere that the Jackery unit shuts off after 5 hours.
Hey, great review, thank you! I have a tec question maybe u could help. We left the Jackery 240’s Outlet switch on in its back going on a 4 hour journey (nothing was plugged in) We when we got to our destination and took it out of the bag it was very warm / hot & both fans was running ! The fans would have struggled to get air for whatever length they were on. Any idea if the heat was coming from the battery, the inverter or the fans them selfs? As far as we knew there was a cut off built into it so I’m wondering why it wouldn’t have shut down ? I reset the battery and it appears to be working 100% , surprisingly fans seem fine etc. Thanks in advance
I bought a jackery 240 about 3 weeks ago and I've noticed something that I may just be overthinking about, and I'm trying to get other owners of the 240's opinion. I've noticed that when watching videos here on RU-vid that on some units, even like the 500 and 300 when you plug in charger to charge that the light is blue when charging and turns green when done. I've never saw a detailed video on the 240 to see if it acts the same when its done charging. Mine never turns green. It will charge up to 100% and the watts will taper down, slowly going to zero and the charger box even gets cold, from not pushing out anymore power, but the light never turns green, it always stays blue. The unit seems to function fine, and I even left it plugged up for like 12 hours just to make sure, but it never changes to green, it stays blue. Can anyone else who owns a 240 confirm if theirs stays blue or does turn green? Like I say, any other time I wouldn't think anything of it, but it's got me questioning why the 240 stays blue but the other units turn green when done
Great review,i want to buy this,i have a question if its possible to answer my friend as i am not an expert on electricity....i have a solar panek of maximum power 250Wp voltage at Pmax 51,2v and current at Pmax 4,88A maximum system voltage 1000v.....is this suitable for charging the jackery without harming it?i mean with the typical mc4 cnnection to dc would work right?thank again
Good review, but why is this needed if you have a much larger capacity battery sitting in your truck? Is this more for access and portability vs. plugging into the dash.
If at all possible I do not ever want to use my start battery for these types applications the start battery if starting the truck and not running my laptop its also not well designed for this type of application and it wouldn't be convenient for editing inside my tent. Jason
Ima hybrid backpacker, van dweller all I have is a kindle tablet, cell phone n sum led xmazz lights and maybe wanna run a fan in the 12 volt shud I buy the 160 are 240 explorer just in case
Not if the truck is running which is my intent to charge it between locations, but it definitely would put a hit on it if your not running the truck. Jason
Ok...just about ready to get one. ( the 240) so...question: i've got a little 250 watt mini-heater. will this 240...run that? and if so....for how long? one hour? ( per...'240 watt hours, right?) can someone help give me the equation, on that? thank you so much!
None. Problem with a hairdryer is how many watts it takes. A small gasoline generator is best for that type of heat application. Make sure to purchase a generator that can produce more watts than your hairdryer needs to run. - Kevin 😁
You would not stay plugged in. This is to recharge a device. If you want more power charging time when the Jackery begins to deplete get the solar panel. Problem solved.
240kW should/would be plenty to run a CPAP all night IF, and I repeat IF, you do not run the heater for the water that adds moisture to your breathing air. I use a 100kW power supply to run my CPAP and that just barely gets me through the night. I absolutely have to make sure my 100kW battery is fully charged, though.
