It's great that they're making more of these units with longer life spans. I wish all of my units came with a nice storage case like that. The bags for the Jackery accessories is so small; it is hard to get everything in the bag. I'm always using zip lock freezer bags for accessories and writing on the bags what the contents are for. I also have three 12v fridge/freezers that also should have come with storage cases for accessories. After things don't get used for awhile it's hard to remember what goes with what.
As with all reviews there are good reviews and some reviews based on bad luck. I bought one of the PECRON E600 LFP portable power stations and loved it for all the reasons mentioned. For two days it was great being able to have 120 vac for small devices when away from the outlet. On the third day, I intended to use the unit in the same manner. No rough handling or dropping of the unit. The unit is totally dead and will not turn on. The PECRON will not charge by house current, 12 vdc, or solar and will not power up. I called the number for PECRON without anyone answering (during business hours) and left messages and my phone number. Then tried emailing PECRON with no response that way either. Really wish I could say the unit is WONDERFUL!!!!, but have to say bad product and no company support. Buy another well liked power supply and forget this unit.
That is so unfortunate. I have not had any issue and I also felt this was a good unit and what appeared to be a good company to deal with. I do have reviews of other units you may be interested in. Thanks for commenting
G'day Mark, not bad I'd say mate. Very good capacity and I'm with ya, like the case/cables, they all should come with that and I do like the corners too. Incidentally I always use a 4 gang, (separately switched) power board. Gives you an on/off for devices that dont have their own, as well as negate any unwanted "standby" draw. So 1 AC O/P is actually enough IMO; either that, or have them individually switched on the unit, but I cant ever remember seeing that before. Not sure they did "miss" a trick without simultaneous charging, as it is very much, I'd argue specifically, a portable job; i.e. AC @ home and solar in the outdoors, rather than the two together, does make sense, as does the external inverter. Same principle with an UPS, if you're out and about without AC, it's not going to be of benefit anyway. Yep a better display would be nice, the whole purpose of a display ....... is to easily display key info. Dunno about wireless phone charging, ..... since you've already got all those USB ports ; ) Cheers Duke.
Hi Duke, The reason I like simultaneous charging is for topping off the battery when off grid. Say, when running a 12V fridge while car camping. I could have a solar panel hooked up and hopefully, never run out of charge. Thanks for commenting
In order to keep these healthy what is the lowest you should run this down to? I know for lipo it it is right around 80% but unsure of these. Thanks for the review.
I am not an expert here but my understanding is best practice will be to keep these batteries between 20% and 80%/ Having said that, modern battery management systems are designed to minimize risk of over-under charging. Keeping the battery in the correct temperature range is also important. With 3000 plus life-cycles estimated to last 10 years on average, Most people won't notice the decrease in performance. Hops this helps
@@chrisrichards280 Not sure what I can say. I have not had this issue with mine. I will play with mine a bit and see if there is some trick to getting going that I am not aware of
