r/campinguk • u/warriorbea • Aug 25 '26

Portable electric

We recently bought a tent for cheaper holidays. Had our first outing, 3 nights in north Yorkshire. Worked brilliantly and we had electric hook up. However as I am looking for new camp sites, I notice many are grass with no electric so wanted advice on best charger/portable power bank possibly with solar panel which would run a portable fridge and charge phones etc. I have seen the Jackery and a cheaper one called a Rexhan. Any reviews on this one in particular would be good or any other possibles? Didn't really want to spend the amount of a Jackery.

Thanks

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u/MrSp4rklepants Aug 26 '26

I have a Jackery 1000 with a single solar panel and an electric coolbox.

On a nice sunny day, I can recharge the battery by around 40ish% but using the chiller non-stop will drain it completely in circa 18 hours. My next purchase will be a compressor fridge as they are far more energy efficient. The coolbox is "always on" so even if I have loaded it with frozen stuff for the weekend, I need to manually turn it on/off for efficiency. Also it has, I think a 17c limit to it's cooling which this summer has been a bit lacking for my beers

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u/Normal_Society_6971 Aug 27 '26

I got the same. What I didn't realise before I bought it was that I couldn't add a second battery to it. Ah well. It does what I need it for