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hi there welcome to my 165 square foot tiny house parked on Whidbey Island so in case you aren't
familiar I built this tiny house about 10 years ago and traveled all around the United States and
through parts of Canada with it until I decided to park it here on an island off the coast of
Washington about four years ago now Whidbey Island is a semi-remote island that is accessible only by
ferry on the south end and it is known for losing power a couple times a year due to high winds
did I know that when I decided to park here no have I learned to live with it kinda I don't live
in this tiny house full time anymore but when I'm out here of course I like to have power especially
in the winter so I've been looking for a backup power source for years and from what I've heard
one of the best Brands out there is jackery so I am really excited to Showcase their new product
the jackery 3000 with you today so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna unbox it we're gonna
look through it together and then we're gonna plug in my tiny house and put it to the test we're
gonna see if and how long it'll power the house so let's jump right in and see what's inside the Box
that down here first thing we have are the car charger and the charger that you can
plug directly into the wall user manual and then the big boy don't hurt your back
all right nice size oh I like this has a RV input I already can see a bunch of other inputs here
we're gonna go ahead and charge it up so that we can do a full test
all right guys I'm coming in to check in on the jackery and see how much it is charged
in just 50 minutes we started out at about 35 percent and now we're looking at about
80 percent it says in the manual that it takes about 2.4 hours to charge when you're plugged
into the wall and it seems like it's charging even faster than that [Music]
thank you one thing I'll say right now is that it's really quiet like I can hear my
wood stove crackling I've got a fire going but I can also hear just the slight hum of
this thing charging that is one benefit of course to having a solar generator versus a
regular generator and one reason why I really wanted to go with a solar generator backup
power when you live in a tiny house sounds really make a difference you know you're out
in nature for a reason so it's really nice to have an ultra quiet backup power unit
so I've gotten out my jackery Explorer 1000 just so I can show you a size comparison
one thing great about the jackery 3000 besides the fact that it has three times more storage in it is
that it's actually on Wheels it's a dolly system the only improvements I can see is that while it's
great to have wheels they could be a little bit bigger and a little bit more rugged they
work really well on pavement but when you try to take them on grass or any uneven ground you
need a little bit of muscle in order to get them through they do have nice handles on the side so
even though it's heavier it's easier to get around than this guy in a lot of ways because you can
just wheel it behind you one of my favorite things about the jackery 3000 is the upgraded LCD display
I love all of the information that is right here in front of me and super simple to understand you
can see that the battery is charging right now because the circle is illuminated and
I can also see how much power is coming in right here through the input wattage I can
also see how much longer it believes it'll take before it's fully charged so right now
it says 0.4 hours so less than 30 minutes and over here it tells me how many hours
that it believes it'll run based off of how much power is going out of it right now now
of course I don't have anything plugged into the unit you can see the output is actually
zero Watts once we start plugging things in these numbers will of course change
all right guys we are fully charged while it was charging I downloaded the app I noticed
that there are a few things that you can turn on and off like I just turned on the AC power so you
can see that this button illuminated and then I can turn on the DC power one of the reasons
I really like this app is because you can see what's going on with your battery life even
if you aren't right in front of the unit I do feel like I could play around with this app all
day long but I want to get back outside so we can plug in the tiny house so I'm gonna Dolly outside
through my tiny door which somehow miraculously this thing fits
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okay so it is currently powering my tiny house I just plugged it in I'm also gonna
do my best to conserve energy so that means no more pretty porch lights sorry guys you
gotta go off let's look at what else that I can do better on the inside I've turned off
the space heater because I have the wood stove going it's 75 degrees in here that's plenty and
um the fridge has been turned to gas because this is a three-way fridge in a power outage that is
what I would do so I'm trying to replicate what I would do to conserve the most energy so the house
is super efficient right now and with that it says that just on this battery Bank it can run for
up to 30 hours that's without getting any power coming into the jackery so I would be thrilled if
I was out here during a power outage and knowing that I had 30 hours of battery power to power my
tiny house that's with it running as efficiently as possible because typically the power is back up
within 24 hours so that would get me through the entire power outage which is awesome
I'm gonna go ahead while we still have some daylight plug in the solar panels
and see how much charging we can get done before it gets dark [Music]
so the cable isn't very long so can't go too far
it says output right here I love it when they make it easy don't make me think too hard
it's almost sunset time and the jackery has been powering my house for about an hour it
still says that I have I mean just a ton of battery life left 94 percent it's not
supposed to rain tonight so I'm going to leave the unit out and we are going to see how long
this thing can power my tiny house [Music] morning guys so um we just woke up and we
made it through the night with electricity only using the jackery so I'm gonna go check on it
now and see how much battery life we have left hit this button says we have about 28 percent
left or about six hours you know Nabil is showering so he's using the exhaust fan
in the shower um we have some lights on we're charging some batteries so you know 93 Watts
though not too bad but um I definitely think that we can do a little bit better efficiency
wise if I had lost power six hours wouldn't be enough to make it through the day I would want
to be collecting some energy through these panels so that's what we're going to try to do [Music]
good [Music] so because the tiny house is parked in such a shaded area it's in the
middle of the forest we weren't able to get a lot of sun on the panel so we decided to
move the jackery 3000 and the panels to a nearby park so that we could get the most
sun exposure we've been getting an input between 200 and 400 watts over the last
few hours so we've really been able to charge back up the battery bank if we continue to go
another couple hours like this we might be able to get it up to 100 and then we
could power the tiny house for another 24 to 36 hours which I think is really impressive foreign
for a little bit and we have been off-grid power wise for about 24 hours with the tiny house and
when it comes to your carbon footprint the solar generator beats the gas generators hands down
obviously you're not burning fossil fuels you are getting your electricity from the Sun and
there's nothing better than that gas prices of course are super high right now uh Sun prices
remain the same and will be forever so what are sun prices nowadays I think we're still right at
0.00 all right that's the current Factor yeah and I actually kind of enjoy trying to get the most
out of the panels it is kind of fun finding the sun empowering your house with the sunlight yeah
it's similar to lighting a fire for heat there's something kind of heartwarming about that I guess
yeah you kind of feel like you're cheating yeah and since I'm using this as a backup power system
I'll just make sure that it's charged before the winter season and then it stays charged for a long
period of time you can also charge it in your car let's say you're going to go explore the National
Park it's a couple hour drive so you can be charging your solar generator while you're on the
way to the national park and then by the time you get back to your campsite you have a full battery
bank again Battery Systems are just getting better and better more compact more lightweight you know
this is a great system if you're looking for something that is a backup power for camping
or for your low electrical use camper tiny house RV so if you guys are interested in the jackery
3000 Pro the product that we've been reviewing in this video you can get a massive discount right
now via the links in the description all you have to do is use the promo code SG 3000 Pro
and you can get 223.90 off the Explorer 3000 Pro and 319.90 off the bundle so don't wait if you're
looking for a system that's perfect for a tiny house small camper camping or off-grid lifestyle
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