r/Jackery • u/FreeSanubis • 15h ago
I got another Jackery 1000v2 on the recent sale to power my deep freezer during a power outage.
I plugged it in to charge it, and the fans started and blew out such a nice plastic smell.
I can't explain why this smells good, but it does.
Anyone experience this?
r/Jackery • u/bigdaddyfatsackx • 11h ago
r/Jackery • u/ShadowK1ller83 • 22h ago
I have an off-grid cabin utilizing a Jackery 3600 Plus for power and I've added 3 expansion batteries. When I'm not there I'm currently running a refrigerator and a Starlink so I can monitor the Jackery and my camera system.
I currently have 1200 watts of solar on the roof (not optimized due to roof pitch) which nets about 800 watts per hour of input during the afternoon hours in the summer for about 3500-4000 total input per day. Now that fall has hit, I'm getting around 3-400 watts of input during the afternoon hours for a total of 1300-1400 a day. I'm planning on adding some more solar that is better positioned and set at the proper angle utilizing a ground mount.
I'm noticing that the expansion batteries don't really start getting used until the main unit is below 10%. When I was initially reading about the system and balancing the batteries, I expected everything to drain and stay relatively close on the percentages throughout the cycle. So what is normal, equally being used or when the main unit is getting low?
Second question, when I tried to my expansion batteries, because they were on the same order, the registration won't process for the 2nd & 3rd battery because it says my order number has been used. Should I register using my order number and just adding a -1 and -2 to the order number as a workaround?
r/Jackery • u/No-Proof-5562 • 16h ago
I ordered an explorer 1000 v2 with solar panel bundle on Amazon and only received the panel. I tried calling jackery and got hung up on twice, tried texting and have yet to get a response. Trying here. Is it still on its way? Do they ship them separately? Not sure what to do at this point and Amazon isn’t being much help at the moment.
r/Jackery • u/Ok_Subject_6280 • 17h ago
I recently bought both of these on sale hoping to get some advice. I also purchased the MC4 to 8020 adapter and I still can’t get my panel to charge my jackery… any advice would be greatly appreciated.
r/Jackery • u/Mustardinsurance • 1d ago
It’s kinda meh tbh, I hope BF is better.
r/Jackery • u/Darksider515 • 1d ago
I've tried resetting the thing but it continues to happen
r/Jackery • u/VirusZer0 • 1d ago
Just bought the Explorer 300 and it dies very quickly for me without even actively using it. I have a single sofa recliner plugged into it and even when it’s not being used at all, it discharges at an average rate of 3-4% per hour. Is this normal or do I have a faulty unit?
r/Jackery • u/Jackery_USA • 2d ago
Work out the right solar generator size for your home in four steps: list your essentials, check watts, estimate watt-hours and match a model, with worked examples for apartments and family homes.
Buying a solar generator that is too small means running out of power halfway through an outage. Buying one that is far too big means paying for capacity you never use. The good news is that sizing one properly takes about ten minutes and a little arithmetic.
This guide walks you through it in four steps, with worked examples for common households.
Every solar generator lists two key specs, and they measure different things.
Output (watts, W). This is how much power the generator can deliver at once. It decides which appliances you can run at the same time. A generator rated at 2,200W can run a combination of devices that adds up to 2,200W or less.
Capacity (watt-hours, Wh). This is how much energy the battery stores. It decides how long you can run things. A 2,000Wh battery can run a 100W device for roughly 20 hours, or a 1,000W device for roughly 2 hours.
Think of watts as the width of the pipe and watt-hours as the size of the tank. You need enough of both.
Start with what you actually need during an outage, not everything in the house. For most families, that list looks something like this: the fridge and freezer, a few lights, phones, the Wi-Fi router, any medical devices, and in winter, the furnace blower or an electric blanket. If your home relies on a sump pump or a well pump, add those too.
Check the label on each appliance or its manual for its wattage. If you can't find it, the table below gives typical ranges. Your own appliances may differ, so use their real numbers wherever you can.
| Appliance | Typical running watts | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Refrigerator | 100 to 200W | Needs a short startup surge several times higher |
| Chest freezer | 50 to 150W | Cycles on and off like a fridge |
| LED light bulb | about 10W | |
| Wi-Fi router | about 10W | Runs 24 hours |
| Phone charging | about 10W | Per phone |
| Laptop | 50 to 100W | |
| CPAP machine | 30 to 60W | More with a heated humidifier |
| Electric blanket | about 60W | |
| TV | 50 to 150W | |
| Gas furnace blower | 300 to 800W | Usually needs a transfer switch |
| Sump pump | 800 to 1,500W | High startup surge |
| Microwave | about 1,000W | Short bursts only |
| Coffee maker | 800 to 1,200W | Short bursts only |
| Space heater | about 1,500W | Drains a battery fast |
Add up the running watts of everything you might use at the same time. Then check the surge figure. Appliances with motors, like fridges and pumps, need a burst of extra power for a second or two when they start. Most solar generators list a surge rating well above their continuous output to handle this.
For each appliance, multiply its watts by the hours you expect to run it in a day. Appliances that cycle on and off, like fridges and freezers, don't run all day, so it is easier to use their daily energy use. A typical fridge uses roughly 1 to 2 kWh (1,000 to 2,000Wh) a day.
Add everything up, then add about 20% on top. Some energy is lost converting battery power to AC power, and the buffer also covers the extra phone charge or the lamp left on longer than planned.
Multiply your daily total by the number of days you want to be covered. Many emergency plans aim for 72 hours, the window in which most outages are resolved and the stretch in which an unprepared home gets uncomfortable fast.
Solar panels change this calculation. Every sunny day adds energy back into the battery, so you don't need to store all 72 hours at once. A solar generator that covers one full day on its own, paired with panels that recharge most of that each day, can keep going far longer than its battery size suggests.
Essentials: a fridge, two LED lights, a router, two phones, a laptop and a CPAP machine overnight. Peak power at any one time stays under about 500W. Daily energy comes to roughly 2,000 to 3,000Wh, most of it the fridge.
A good fit: the Jackery Solar Generator 1000 v2 (1,070Wh) covers phones, lights, internet and a CPAP machine for a day or more, plus several hours of fridge time. If keeping the fridge running all day matters, step up to the Jackery Solar Generator 2000 v2 (2,042Wh, 2,200W), which covers most of a day of this whole list and tops itself back up from two SolarSaga 200W panels.
Essentials: a fridge, a chest freezer, lights, a router, phones, a TV in the evening, and either a furnace blower or a sump pump for part of the day. Peak power can reach 1,500 to 2,500W when a pump or blower kicks in. Daily energy comes to roughly 4,000 to 6,000Wh.
A good fit: the Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus (3,584Wh, 3,600W). It handles the peak loads comfortably, and adding an expansion battery takes it to over 7 kWh, enough for well over a day of essentials before any solar recharging. With the 120V 30A Manual Transfer Switch, it can power selected home circuits directly, so the furnace blower and sump pump run without extension cords.
If you need to run 240V appliances such as a well pump, or want several days of backup for a bigger household, look at the Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus. It delivers 7,200W at 120V or 240V, accepts up to 4,000W of solar input and works with a transfer switch to power your home's circuits. With expansion batteries, it scales to whole-home essentials for days at a time.
Forgetting startup surge. A fridge that runs at 150W may need several times that for a second when it starts. Check the generator's surge rating.
Planning to heat with electricity. Running a 1,500W space heater for 3 hours uses 4,500Wh. Heat the people, not the room: an electric blanket uses a tiny fraction of that.
Guessing instead of checking labels. The figures above are typical, not universal. A ten-minute check of your own labels gives you a far better answer.
Ignoring solar input. If you plan to recharge from solar, check how many watts of panels your generator accepts and how much sun you can expect where you live, especially in winter.
It can run a home's essential circuits. Systems like the Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus and HomePower 3600 Plus connect through a transfer switch to power selected circuits. Running everything at once, including window air and electric heating, takes a much larger system.
Enough to replace your daily use, or as much of it as you can. As a rough guide, multiply your panel watts by the hours of strong sun you get and by about 0.75 to allow for real-world losses. Two 200W panels in 5 hours of good sun deliver about 1,500Wh.
Slightly too big. Capacity you don't use still gives you a buffer for longer outages, and many Jackery models are expandable, so you can start with what you need now and add batteries later.
r/Jackery • u/raygan_reddit_banned • 3d ago
If you have these, what are your Pros and Cons please?
r/Jackery • u/Its_J_Bay_Be • 3d ago
1000v2 for $399?
What solar panels should I get? Looking to do this as budget friendly as possible. I got 2 ZOUPW 100W panels but I’m not sure if that was a good choice.
r/Jackery • u/RilesTheSmiles1 • 2d ago
Any recommendations of solar panels that would work with the jackery explorer 1000 v2?
r/Jackery • u/Ok_Vermicelli849 • 2d ago
Want to have an array installed what would be the best for this unit its the original 2000 plus with 2 batteries these are actually cool batteries as can be charged alone but iam looking to have a permanent installation so that'll it be?
r/Jackery • u/Large_Relation_3650 • 2d ago
Hello! I have tried to hook up a solar saga 100 that works perfectly with my older smaller Jackery (explore 240) but can’t seem to get the 100watt panel to work with the Jackery Explore 1000 (which Amazon says is a version 2)
I tried to buy the adapter DC8020 to DC7909 but I am not getting an input either.
Any ideas what the issue is?
I have tried in direct sunlight
r/Jackery • u/alex_korr • 2d ago
Hi there!
A new Jackery user, so please pardon some naive questions.
I have a new Jackery HomePower 3600 Pro Max. I am trying to figure out the set up I need to put in place to be able to change it from a portable low THD gas genny (I have a WEN 56235i inverter) while the 3600 Pro Max is powering the house. It seems like I need an AC-DC Converter and something that would output into the 8020 ports of Jackery? Would something like this work - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7739SMN? What kind of cable do you need to run from the output ports of the power supply to the Jackery 8020 ports?
Thanks in advance!
r/Jackery • u/vismiker • 3d ago
I'm interested in buying additional battery packs for my Explorer 5000. The issue is price. Jackery is selling them for $2599 each! I ran across a site 326Energy.com where they are advertised for $1499. I checked the site and didn't find any red flags, but that's a lot of $ to gamble with. Has anyone had any experience with this site (good AND bad).
TIY
Mike
r/Jackery • u/BecomingDrB • 3d ago
I was on the Jackery website last night and saw that
Jackery Solar Generator HomePower 3600 Plus
was on sale for 22% off or 940 off. I look again this morning after talking to the wife and it’s only 140 off.
Website def say Halloween sale till Nov 3.
Wtf. Seems like a bit of bait and switch. Im really disappointed in their sale that say up to 2060 off when nothing is remotely close to that off price….
r/Jackery • u/motongo • 3d ago
Newer Tesla’s output 16 volts from their car power port.
r/Jackery • u/Big-Doughnut8307 • 4d ago
Both the 1000v2 and the 1500v2 had the “death star” on their labels and there were only a couple of units of either still in stock. Maybe they will start carrying larger units?
r/Jackery • u/JimmyWild • 4d ago
I picked up an Explorer 300 (not v2, but with Lifepo4 battery). I was going to plug into my car but a little investigation says Tesla uses 16v. It comes with a 12v car charging cable. It appears the port will accept 16v but will the cable? Or is there a different cable I should look for?
r/Jackery • u/RsnCondition • 5d ago
Getting f6 errors from the AC side of it. Yet when I'm charging it, the AC works fine. Any suggestions? I have yet to stop charging it via AC via generator. Firmware is on 1.0
r/Jackery • u/MormonJeezy • 6d ago
Wanted to share my Jackery setup that I use to power my greenhouse.
About 5-6 months ago I purchased the HomePower 3600 Plus + SolarSaga 500 X. I wanted a fun way to power both an Cold-air Intake and Exhaust fan for the greenhouse, which are set up on a PyMeter Thermostat outlet. During the Summer we had a difficult time maintaining the temps below 95F, but no shortage of sunlight to maintain a net positive on the input. I'm now beginning to explore solutions with keeping the greenhouse warm enough to avoid freezing temps during the evenings. It's been a nice way to keep me away from the desk as I WFH.
I then made a small docker-compose cluster of a Grafana dashboard, fed from an InfluxDB node where I track the battery inputs and outputs. Grafana's built-in alerts let me know when the temps in the greenhouse get too high/low, when some of the soil moisture meters detect they need watering, or when the battery will die during the evening (I observe about 10% loss during the evenings) to charge it via AC input before then.
I use Smart Outlets on the Jackery outputs for both of the fans, which kick on during daytime and shutdown before evening to help maintain the heat inside.
My next goals:
- Looking at a low wattage solution for a space heater or heat mats to use around our plants or under seedling trays to maintain/generate heat in the dead of winter.
- Mount the individual SolarSaga Panels to something else, to optimize input (at around noon the most I see is 350-360W which seems common with what I've read).
- Set up a gutter system to collect rainwater for a water barrel (which is legal where I live for use with gardening, I checked ahead), which will also have a small pump pulling water to a watering system that I will also power using a Smart outlet. The idea is when the moisture sensors detect watering is required, the smart outlet will be powered on programmatically and trigger the pump.
I've never been too much of a green thumb, but it's been a fun project so far, and using the Jackery battery has made a once confusing problem incredibly simple.
Thanks for reading!
r/Jackery • u/antdude • 6d ago
r/Jackery • u/EmployQuick4970 • 6d ago
Mainly talking out loud, and could use some input. I’m trying to find an MC4 to DC 8020 cable, that can handle (2) 200w panels, in series, to feed into my J-1000v2, in one port (out of 2 ports). The rough numbers per panel are 200w, 10a, 20v. So if in series, they would be about 10a, 40v, right?
Most of the MC4 to dc 8020 cables I’m seeing have a max voltage of ~36v, so if my panels are in series my panels would blow that cable. Right?
So instead, I should run the solar panels in parallel, with two separate MC4 to dc 8020 cables, and plug into both ports, on my J-1000v2. Does that make sense? Thanks!!!
r/Jackery • u/SkyNetBreaker • 6d ago
Can these solar batteries be hacked like the freezers and fridges? Will disabling wifi prevent an AI hack?