in this video I'm having a look at the new jackery Explorer 2000 plus it's a portable battery station
that has a capacity of 2042 Watt hours so two kilowatts kilowatt hours but you can increase
the opacity I've got one of their expandable batteries here which is called the battery 2000
plus you can add five of these plus the original battery station giving us a total capacity of 12
kilowatt hours absolutely huge output wise very good one of the more powerful units that I am
covering here in the channel 3000 Watts so it has solar input that you can charge with their
panels if you get six of them at 200 watts and you can fully charge this station alone in just
two hours AC charging well in 100 minutes you get it up to 80 percent and it's two hours to fully
charge it now it's using lfp battery cells which are really the battery cells you want to be going
for because they're long last thing they're safer they handle higher temperatures better and after
four thousand Cycles the Explorer 2000 plus will still be at 70 capacity and those cells are good
for 10 years in the Box you get this it's a pouch that has our accessories we've got the power cable
a car charging cable and then two adapters for the DC plugs the input and if you've got the
extended battery then you're going to get one of these very large gauge cables with the connectors
there to connect the two battery packs now we've got a really good build quality here
with the Explorer 2000 plus ABS style plastic to it but it is UE resistant flame retardant and drop
resistant to the materials now there's no sharp edges here power on our screen can be made out in
direct sunlight we've got our DC side of things here the AC both of them have a button to turn
them on and off so the car cigarette lighter Port here or the car accessory Port that's DC 12 volts
10 amps we've got two type A ports here that do support Quick Charge three 18 watts each and then
the type C ports supporting power delivery are 100 Watts Max both of them so that's 200 watts
in total now other brands split that between both of them but not here with jackery and then the AC
side we have the three ports here EU plugs that I've got and they do support 3000 watts in total
so not each of them but in total there so you can have say 1500 and 50 500 coming out of two
of those and on the back is where you will find our inputs so we have the AC input there which
is going to charge it in two hours to 100 or in just 100 minutes up to eighty percent so it
is very quick with those lfp cells that it is using they're good for a course four thousand
Cycles or ten years and after the four thousand Cycles it's still got 70 capacity DC inputs there
and there is this AC input reset if if you happen to overload it so there is an overload protection
which all of them need great to have that there and then on the other side the DC expansion port
so this is where you can expand the capacity that I talked about in the intro so you can add an
additional five two kilowatt portable expandable batteries giving us in total combined with this
unit here then 12 kilowatts that's a lot if you needed that kind of capacity so it's a very solid
cable as it should be and you'll see that it's labeled here a and I've got the a plug there too
so it's very clear you need to push it in you've got a clip at the top that you need to push and it
takes a little bit of effort and then once it's in place it clicks in and that is not going anywhere
the B plug then goes into our expandable battery here which is the pack 2000 plus now it's got its
own DC inputs here which is great means you can charge the expandable batteries by themselves
you don't have to use the Explorer 2000 plus at all and the input here is exactly the same
as the main unit so it is 60 volts 12 amps Max there for our solar input or charging input DC
so both the portable battery station and the expanded battery pack do have ventilation so
they've got fans inside active cooling BMS which is all battery monitoring system there
that's constantly checking on the temperatures to ensure that it is safe it's not going to
overheat and if it does get too hot that's when the safety kicks in and Powers it down
the extended battery packs these are 18 kilos so they're a lot more manageable and yes you
can set it on top of the portable battery station now there's two ways you can gauge
the battery status of the portable packs and that is just the screen here with its power
on button or you can use the application which I will show you later in the video
and I've got a perfect day here too to be able to test out my solar panel and see what kind of
charging rate I can get now Jeffrey do sell their own 200 watt portable foldable solar panels but
this thing here is a lot more potent this is 450 Watts maximum so I'll connect it up and we'll take
a look at those charging rates currently charging at 382 Watts here you can see it's telling me I've
got four hours remaining to fully charge this portable battery station so that's on par really
with other battery stations I've reviewed although some of those units I've seen in input wattage of
400 and slightly over the best I've seen so far is 392 Watts so both the Explorer 2000 plus and
the battery pack 2000 plus can be charged with the included Cable in your car but be warned it's
really slow let's take a look at the charge rates that I can get from my car so currently charging
around almost 100 Watts it's going to take 17 hours to finish off charging this battery to go
from 30 to 100 so that's a long time this really for me is only for emergency situations and when
you finish getting it out of say the boot or trunk of a car isn't too difficult because it does have
some really good hand holds either side of it plastic quality is good as I pointed out before
and it does weigh 28 kilos almost so it is a bit heavy to get in and out but good thing we do have
this of course the extendable handle so that pulls out like so good quality to it and the wheels are
very solid so this allows me just to pull it along as if it was a suitcase or a briefcase so what can
you use a powerful portable battery station such as this one for well 3000 Watts that's a lot and
it's gonna be perfect for motorhome RV owners people that are off grid and power tools where
you've got a huge range of power tools you can use up to that 3000 Watts so this here like an
edge trimmer I I think it's only a Max that it Peaks at is about 600 watts so it's not going
to be a problem at all I'll just test it out so you've got so many uses with this it was probably
a perfect unit here for Tradesmen too they do use powerful tools now if you do have a second unit
there's a special cable you can get and you can get up to then 6 000 Watts maximum output foreign
for example
not a problem and then if you wanted to say vacuum your car outdoors and you don't
have a power plug that's close by and accessible then you can just use your
portable jackery Explorer 2000 plus here the 2000 Watts not a problem for this unit
so now it's time to really load it up put it under some stress test out that inverter with
some of my load tests so I've got it charging at the moment and it's about 1700 Watts just over
and this is where you do hear the fan quite a bit when it's charging at the fastest rate possible
so it's telling me it's got 1.1 hours left to fully charge so the fan on the right is pulling
the cool air in this fan here on the left is the loud one that's pushing the warm air out and you
can feel it's it's a little warm and here's a sample of it what you can expect fan wise
my little hair dryer test so we've got the 2200 watt hair dryer here what I've
noticed is when I pull really large loads on the Explorer 2000 plus the
charging rate will drop right off right down to about 200 Watts so watch this [Applause]
so drop down to 200 Watts the fan cuts out and becomes quiet again here it is charging again
so it can run and charge heavy appliances at the same time as well as charging itself so
it's good there it's past this little load test but I'm going to step it up now just plugged in
a kettle to boil water now there's a lot of these battery stations that just can't boil
water so running both of them will see how it handles it now I'm going to go over the
3000 Watts here and I do expect it to trip out it has to do that overload protection so here we go
2 200 Watts not a problem doesn't sound that loud at all when you're not charging
so I'm not charging at the moment now the hair dryer it will end up tripping out [Applause]
okay so it got to 4 000 and something or rather watts and then it cut out and that's great that's
the overload protection and after a while it's going to reset itself but I can just
turn it off and then back on again and it should then have reset and it reset itself and I'm back
to now boiling water which you can do here with the Explorer 2000 plus and like all good models
it does have UPS so I'm going to pull the power plug out here so currently it's charging that's
the only time it really makes the loud fan noises when it's charging so turn the hairdryer on pull
this out and we should see it just swap over from grid power to then the battery power now it should
do this in 20 milliseconds so it's very quick so hair dryer on [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
and that was very quick so the UPS function is working well it's all up this is a great unit
here from jackery the Explorer 2000 plus and the possibility to expand upon uh your needs there
of just how many kilowatts unique kilowatt hours so the original model Kia is the 2024
Watt hours but then you can keep adding these modules here to bring it right up to that 12
kilowatt hours which is fantastic capacity there if you do need that now this unit here is heavy
it's almost 28 kilos that's the downside to it but we've got a good hand grip on it and they
have the handle and the wheels as I showed you makes it a lot more easier to move about this
is around 18 kilos and I love the fact that it can be charged just by itself with solo with the
DC charging but there's no AC charging plug on it which is unfortunately you'll still need to
plug it into this unit in order to charge that we'll charge them both at the same time now if
you need more than the 3000 watts output from this which is 1 one of the more powerful ones
I've covered then you can get a lead that's very similar to the orange one that connects them but
you need two other units then and that can bring you up to the 6 000 Watts you double your output
then which is going to power everything which is really good that we have at least these kind of
options now they've got the battery management system in this monitoring the temperatures then
sure it doesn't overheat plastic quality seems great so drop resistant plastic flame retardant
plastic UV resistant and the best part for me is they are now using lfp battery cells so 4
000 Cycles it drops down to 70 percent it's going to be good for 10 years even if you cycle
it and use it every day it will still be fine because they're the best quality sales really
you can get for portable battery packs such as this or battery stations or they like to call
them solar generators which I find quite funny but that's how they Market them as because you
can of course charge them via solar so those charging times are really good the 80 mins
that's just to get it sorry 100 minutes to get it to 80 and then two hours before they charge
car charging is an option but it is very slow and solar you've got that option too and you can use
their portable solar panels too if you wanted to so really the only downside to this model here
for me is the price tag like all of them they are expensive units so all that what you're looking at
that I've covered in this video so that is the Explorer 2000 plus plus the battery 2000 plus
this is around at the time of this video about 3 700 euros so yes pricey but when you look at the
competition they're about the same price however they don't offer the 3 000 watts output a lot of
them are 2000 or 2 200. it's very powerful here and fan noise is another thing I like
about jackery's products it's not as loud as the competition so thank you so much for watching my
review here of the jackery Explorer 2000 plus and the p 2000 plus here expandable battery