Jackery Jackery Solar Generator 290 Set

Good and bad

I bought my 550 in April of 2024. I wanted to give it a year of service before I gave my review. My wife and I have a small cabin in the woods and I bought this so I could have some electricity for lights, recharge my phone, recharge a vacuum, and run my wife's cpap machine. LIKES 1. Lights. grade A+, I only need one lamp for the small cabin so this is great and uses little battery storage. 2. Phone charge. A, This consumes about 10% of battery storage overnight. About 20% over a weekend. 3. V...

Good for remote power needs

I have had this about a year and it works good. I've only used the solar panels to charge. From full discharge to full charge without being used takes about 2 days. I've powered gazebo lights and a 42" tv with it together for a couple hours (didn't even go down to 60%) and a barn fan in my chicken coop. The fan will not stay running overnight, but does cool things off. I've also powered a car battery charger and the 2 amp charge will go all night. If I was purchasing again I probably would...

Easy, versatile field or backup power

We live among big trees in the PNW Winter Cyclone corridor, so get power outages fairly often. Part of the charm of living here. And of course stormfalls supply everything needed (i.e., wood) to cook, heat water, and heat the house. And of course we also keep in stock a dual-fuel generator. But there are times when we just want to run a couple fans to distribute wood stove heat, maybe a light or two to weave or carve or bang rocks together or play instruments by, while enjoying our comfy imposed...

Great capacity and charge features!

Love the features and power capacity! We fully charged it up and then put it to the test with multiple, high-draw devices (toaster--twice, electric water kettle--twice, and crock pot--4 hours) and charged several, low-draw devices multiple times over 3 days (cell phones 6 times, 11,000mAh battery packs 2 times) and it still had 40% charge remaining. During the 3 days, no input power was sent to the Power Station. Charged it via wall and then used it again until it was down to 60%. At that poi...

Consider you needs

To provide an appropriate product review, I will begin by explaining how we intend to use this item. Our camper van has AGM batteries and a 1000 watt inverter. We needed a little more power than this, so a solar generator seemed to be a good choice. For our situation, the Jackery is ideal. It provides about 1500wh and includes an 1800 watt inverter. Its size (14" X 10.4" X 12.7") and weight (about 35 pounds) are just right for the limited storage. The ability to charge with solar is perfect. A...

Perfect way to harness the power of the sun to power your technology! I purchased the Generator 290 kit in February 2022 and have since used it at home and a roadtrip to Joshua Tree to power my laptop, lights, and phones in the family, without having to plug into the wall AC as often. This gives us the flexibility to work from anywhere in the yard, garage, on the road, and places in the house without a plug nearby. Solar Saga 60W panel is fantastic and nearly outperforms its own 60W rating....

Two years ago, Texas lost electric power statewide during a winter storm. I was lucky to have two small power banks that kept my phone charged during those 4 cold, dark days. I limited my phone use to texting family that I was okay, and checking a local news site 2x daily, just so I could preserve what little battery power was at my disposal. As soon as life was back to normal, I saved up and bought this Jackery Explorer 290. I’ve fully discharged and recharged it every several months since th...

Power cord problem

This is my 2nd review because my first one was never put up as a review for some reason. The unit seems great and well built. Really my only current issue is the power cord. The black plastic box between the unit and the wall socket gets so hot. I feel like I got a faulty power cord. I am worried about that and will not use it now because I fear it will cause a fire. Not sure if they will send me a new power cord or if I need to return the entire thing. For the price of this unit and the positiv...

Good Product

I bought the 550 to have enough power for a few days with my CPAP. 2 days late on delivery; delayed my trip to wait for FedEx to arrive. 49% charge upon delivery. My trucks 12v cigarette lighter is broken so no charging while driving. Not enough power for an Airsense 10 CPAP through the night with humidifier on. A-10 is 24v so I plugged into 110v and used its transformer to step down. Power outputs have manual on off switches on the Jackery. Accidently Left the 110v on 1st day which opera...

It is easy to monitor charging, status, usage.

I think it will do what I want it to do. In the last Texas black out, we were without power for 2 1/2 days then short periods of power for an other 2 days. The worst part was 12 hours of dark each night & not being able to use our devices,M. I wanted an option that would not break the bank. We have a small tv & DVD player. After testing, we should have 10 viewing capability & be able to charge most of our devices. Last time we were designated commercial customers, that has been corrected to resi...