Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Power Station

As with my other reviews this is worth having for smaller stuff and I managed to find a small 300w kettle which has 350ml water capacity in a mug shaped container and a 240v plug which uses 10% power each time. SOLARSAGA 40 put out 30nwatts in the UK - you can get a Y lead and use two which works gibe and speeds things up or even the SOLARSAGA 100 which is faster still. I have made a plug in leisure battery of the same capacity which improves runtime and when the unit is guarding you can charge the battery from the Cigarette socket to use the mains if you forget your charger 😀!!

Great little power brick with a SolarSaga 40 Solarpanel.
I have made up a small Leisure battery with long life cells to plug in as the solar input - fills up the powerbank more than twice for manageable carry weight !

Trolley looks great, easy to set up as one piece can wait to try when go camping.

I purchased this to accompany the Explorer 240v2. It a great piece of kit, fold away to a compact size and is very lightweight. Tested and it is great for topping up the 240v while out fishing. Worthwhile purchase

As always a great service from Jackery , second battery purchase to add to my 2000 plus , I now have a great system to completey run my caravan , all I need now is sunshine .

Fabulous product. Only out shone by the customer service. Helpful and very quick delivery. We cannot recommend the service that we have received from the team enough. Thank you so much

Love this , been a revelation since I got it , best bit of kit ever.

Perfect for my T2 to charge phone, run laptop and other items, first time using one and very impressed with it so far

Although I have a solar panel with my unit, I got the car charger for the obvious reasons. I initially thought that was quite steep price wise for a bit of cable, but actually like the rest of the kit it's a quality build, and charges the unit very quickly.

All in all, I'd recommend...but then if you already own something Jackery you probably don't need a recommendation?!

ive finally decided to write a review after testing my jackery. Ive taken in camping in Derbyshire in my van, across to Holland where I played football and have used it lots when i stealth camp in my van. I love the fact everything is chunky and well made. The solar panel is fab and the little indicator for the sun is clever. Also the way it folds down and magnets hold it together is really good. I like all the different plugs and charging bits and the torch is really good too. My only gripe was that it took a lot of power and charge to boil a large pan of water on a 600 watt stove, but stupidly i bought it to the boil from cold and should have used the 600watt kettle to boil the water first. I gave in and we used the gas stove in my friends camper van. It was definetly worth buying the in van charging cable as that got me enough charge on my way to Harwich docks from Derbyshire to brew a few cups of tea in the wee hours before the ferry and charge my phone until i could plug the jackery into the mains at the hotel. It was quick to charge there and using it minimally just to charge my phones, watch and earphones was brilliant and i still have charge on it now. My biggest regret is not being able to afford the 200w solar panel as i just bought the 100watt. In full sun it takes 15 hours to fully charge the jackery so for every 100watt panel you can halve that. They can be linked in series but then you are carrying them and I only have a vauxhall vivaro. All in I really like it - especially the panel showing the input and output and the fact I can look at info on the app. Its well worth it but if you afford it increase your solar panel size

What a great product, it fits perfectly in my footwell and enough power to allow a car camping trip.

Purchased a jackery explorer with solar saga 100w for use with our Foldaport trailer we used both items continuously for 3 days and still had power to spare
Very user friendly and surprised by how much equipment we could run from the battery. A very wise purchase so apt for the purpose we wanted

Bought the Explorer 1000v2 + 100w solarsaga as extra power for our campervan, it kept our thermoelectric cool box going all weekend and occasional hair dryer use, still loads of power left up to when we were packing up. It’s also been used it as portable power for garden tools. Great product 5 stars.

In November last year I bought a Volkswagen transporter fully equipped with the elite fitting for a camper van.I stumbled across a neighbour new to the area with a camper he explained to me I’ve a Jackery and wild camp I’m in a different world explain I said so he told me with a Jackery he can use his treasured ninja for cooking and everything else and it’s the best item in camping so I made myself delve. Into jackery and there story I bought the 2000 generator and 2000 solar panels I’ve just came back from wales on a site but not equipped with hook ups the weather we had was Spanish my jackery never failed like living at home what an essential brilliant well done jackery and all who buy a kit will never be happier

Only recently purchased the explorer used it a few times very easy to use very quiet looking forward to using it when I next go camping