I bought this as an RV power back up, especially during travel days when I am parked somewhere without electric hook-ups. I did a lot of research and this was the lightest one I found with that much wattage with a 30amp output. I specifically wanted that capability so I can plug my RV directly on it, and it works! The app works great to monitor usage. This kept me warm overnight while I was boondocking. I have yet to buy the solar panels, but it charges quick when plugged to the wall. The kit also comes with a car charger, which also charges well. I do wish they made this one expandable, but on its own, it served me well. I have no complaints. Just be mindful it is not waterproof, so make sure you cover it up if you plan on leaving it outside while in use.

Compact. Good handles to lift. Nice telescoping handle & wheels. Many charging options. Perfect to plug in our RV to move slides & use outlets in the RV.

I've only had this unit for a couple days, but so far I'm very happy with it. It arrived ahead of schedule with excellent packaging. It is performing as expected - very easy to roll around - about the size of a salesman's sample case. That's important for an old guy like me(!). At 63 lbs, it's pretty heavy but lighter than an old lead-acid battery counterpart. It really does charge fast -- when plugged into a standard 15amp 110V AC socket, it shows a charge level of 1750 watts. I didn't try it, but if I had put any other load on that AC circuit, it would have tripped my circuit breaker! I recommend you find an AC outlet that has no other load. Alternatively, choose the "slow charge" mode on the phone app and it will draw only about 850 watts when charging. The unit has an optional mode that will extend the life of its batteries by limiting max drain and max charge to a narrower range than 0-100% of total capacity. I had that option turned on, and when the unit wouldn't charge beyond 85%, I thought it was defective. Taking it off "battery saving mode" fixed that. This is done through the Bluetooth/WiFi link to my iPhone via a downloadable app that works well. I tested the solar panel that comes with the unit -- it's rated at 80 watts, but it delivered about 65 watts with bright morning sun. That's a slow charge rate, but it's free energy, and a backup when commercial power is not available. You can add more solar panels if you want to buy them. I'm planning heavy use of this unit for amateur radio "field day" at the end of June. I'll add more info to this review after that (if Amazon lets me). Brownouts are predicted in my area (Arizona) this summer. This unit can help me bridge the brownout if it isn't too long, and then I can recharge the unit on commercial power. I really like the display on the unit as well as the nifty iPhone app. So far it works very well and keeps the user "in the know" any time it's needed. I bought this unit to replace a motley collection of dying AGM lead-acid batteries (very heavy), lots of cables, and some erratic separate power inverters. Ugh. Not very portable. Bottom line: this unit is pricey, but it's so convenient, I think I'm going to love it. UPDATE after 20 months - Works as well as it did in May of 2023. Light usage, and I keep it on the "battery save" mode, only charging to 85% of capacity. WiFi link works great. Expensive, but it's saved me several times. Kudos to Jackery.

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 panels 3) Via a 12V cigarette lighter adapter for your car I 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 house 2) There is another A/C plug for high power devices like an electric clothes dryer 3) There is a cigarette lighter port for plugging in things that you would plug into the cigarette lighter of your car 4) 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.

Small enough to be out of the way; powerful enough to provide reliable back-up power; easy to set up and use. Fits my emergency needs perfectly.