Hi everyone i'm Chris and this is the jackery explorer 1000 it is a power station with a 1002
watt hour capacity 1000 watt maximum output as you can see it has two ac power points right here this
is the eu version obviously we do have quite a few dc plugs there as well including a car port there
with 12 volts up to 10 amps now in this in-depth review i will be checking out this in detail
we'll take a look at what you can really use it for obviously this is something that's really
ideal i think for people that are campers but you could also use it for an emergency power source
you could use it for for example what i'm doing at the moment charging my e-bikes or e-scooters
and if you wanted to keep things green and use the solar panels you can charge it up with that so it
was sent out to me in exchange for this review and also two of the solar saga 100 watt solar
panels here that i'll be testing with the explorer 1000 included inside the box you will find a user
manual we have a warranty card now they do give us this which is a free gift apparently with them and
that is a cable here an adapter so you can connect up two solar panels to charge it at the maximum
180 watts there is also this pouch included now inside this you will find our power supply
the car adapter okay so the power supply this one is rated to 180 watts maximum it's a hunt key
that's a known brand i've seen many of these power supplies normally powering laptops and mini pcs so
charge time with this charger is seven and a half hours there is a cable here for our car charger
okay so car charging that is going to take then seven and a half hours for alternator charging
and there is an eu power cable for my eu model here that i have the explorer 1000 here has an
excellent build quality to it they've used abs style plastics we have a big handle here at the
top and that means that it's very easy to pick this up as well now weighs 22 pounds which is
approximately 10 kilos so it is a little heavy now there's no sharp edges with these plastics
everything seems to be very very good some solid rubber feet on the bottom so we have an air intake
and exit vent too so they have a little tiny fan in here that you barely hear only when it's under
really full load will you hear the fans come on within this so there is a spotlight right here
which is very handy to have i've seen in other battery packs so if you just tap it that's simple
on and off and if you tap and hold it then does an sos flashing which is good for camping if you ever
needed that or in a disaster situation now the back of it here you can see that there is nothing
okay so that's again some very strong plastic and then on this side which is the right here
we just have another exit or intake vent there for the fan that's inside cooling everything
up here at the top we have our import here so this is a 180 watts maximum with the adapter to charge
it and then input here for solar if you're going to use that adapter they have you can use two of
the solar saga 100 watt solar panels to get them a maximum of 180 watts even though on the display
here if you tap it this will come on it will stay on for 15 seconds it was only reading about 100
watts or 120 watts maximum with the solar of the two panels but later on it charged very quickly
in about eight hours so it was actually running at about 180 watts which is good to know with that so
there's a button right here to turn on our dc side of things and ac so 100 watts max here with both
of these and this being the eu version we just get the two sockets the us version i believe has
three here and up to 2 000 watts surge that surge though so you shouldn't exceed the 1000 watts
if you do exceed it after a while it will cut out the search time is only just a brief
window there that it has they can do that surge of course so with dc here we've got type c which
this one here is 18 watts maximum so it's power delivery supporting but it's only power delivery
the first spec so i would have liked to see power delivery 2 and up to 65 watts would have been
good like some of the competitors out there we've got another type c port here so two of them which
is good to have but this one here is just rated to 5 volts 2.4 amps and then qualcomm for our type
a here that's a maximum of 18 volts as well for qualcomm's quick charge three and then we do have
a car jack here so this one is 12 volts 10 amps which is not bad so i have my meter plugged in as
you can see i just wanted to see if it's quite accurate the meter that they have now straight
away just turning on ac you'll lose about 8 to 10 watts here and that is pretty much normal so
i have a hairdryer plugged in so a very demanding appliance so just turn this on to the first level
so you're looking around 133 watts here according to my meter and this is telling me 130 to 150 so
it really is a little bit off as you can see by about 20 watts now i'm going to step it up now
so that's fine up to around 300 watts the fans come on now so when you start to use
something that's a little bit demanding and appliance and especially with the ac
on you'll hear the fan i'll give you a sample of what the fan sounds like this is one of the cons
of such a power station is they do make a bit of noise when they're working hard of course
those fans need to keep the internals cool
and that's really about as loud as it is going to get so what i'll do now is
i'm going to really ramp it up it'll probably go over a thousand watts and
it will probably end up cutting itself out so let's have a look
so around 1200 almost 1300 watts and it did not cut out now if i was to go up to 2000
which i'll do now briefly it will cut off the ac and it might even power itself off now that's a
safety built-in safety mechanism that it has so let's test it out
all right it just turned off straight away i asked then for maximum power which is 2500
watts and it's powered itself off so that's good i mean it's a security feature that's built in
to get it back up and running i need to plug it into charge and it will then reset itself
and i did a little bit of a load test but more of a battery drain test so i've gone from 100
battery that i had at the beginning down to just two percent now and it has been going all day
just charging up various different devices i've been swapping over between phones battery packs
i'm currently running the studio lights and it's fine okay so loading up the dc
and the ac perfect it has not cut out the whole day it's running stable down to two percent and
another beautiful day here to be testing out some solar panels there's not a cloud in the sky
it's a very good conditions to test out our peak charging rate and these are the solar panels that
jackery sent out to me they're called the solar saga these are 100 watt 18 volt 5.5 amp panels
and this is them in their unfolded state so either side here when you close them up there's actually
magnets in here that keep it closed which is quite a good design i like it so each cell has a stand
on the back of it it's all made out of fabric high quality fabric waterproof and inside this pouch
here you'll find our cable and we also do have a hub here so this has a type c 3 amp maximum output
here 5 volts 3 amp so that's 15 watts and then a type a as well so you can connect up other devices
and charge them as well and with that second panel connected up with the adapter that i showed
you earlier in this video i am reaching here our peak solar charging input rate of 120 watts so if
it was an overcast day i would be able to get better use out of this second panel of course
and charging at 120 versus the 93 watts will be slightly faster here but on a day like this i
could get away with just using the single panel and another great use for a battery bank like
this one with such a large capacity is i do use it to charge up my e-scooters and e-bikes as you
can see this is my current collection and they are all charged via solar and these battery banks one
other use for the explorer 1000 is garden tools so anything that doesn't exceed 1 000 watts can be
used of course and this trimmer here is 400 watts so well within the range and the great thing about
it is i don't need a super long extension lead to be able to use this power tool i can simply just
move the battery bank around to where i need it to be and even something like a powerful vacuum
which can use up to an even over a thousand watts is not a problem at all for the explorer 1000
and charging with the cars alternator this is possible but it is very slow you can see at
the moment it's only around 80 watts and it will take then approximately 15 hours
to fully charge the 1002 million hours capacity so it has been two weeks now and i've been using
this a lot i've been cycling it quite a few times and as i showed that i've had lots of
things connected up to it been running it like all day just charging up various different
uh tech items that i have never run into any problems and it's as long as you don't exceed the
1000 watts it will not trigger the little warning it comes up a little asterisk there when you do so
and if you go way over that it will cut out and it will need to be reset by plugging it in there
so it has the fan in here to cool it and i'll just give you a quick sample again of that fan
that is probably the the only real con with this battery station here listen okay you can
hear that that's the cooling fan now once you go over about 80 watts it will be continuing on
if you're charging something you're using high powered um lights or whatever it will be there
the whole time so if you're on a camping trip and you want something that's completely silent
then sadly this is not it depending of course on how much current you're drawing with this
so the build quality very very good it is solid i don't think the weight's too bad considering it's
a 1002 watt hour the capacity it does have so 22 pounds 10 kilos is great one of the good things
about it too that i ran into a problem with power oak this is a competing brand of them
that i always had to in the morning disconnect the solar panels and reconnect them to get
the power station the power bank to charge doesn't happen with the jackery so this is really good
you can keep your solar panels plugged in overnight as soon as the sun starts to come
up as soon as the wattage starts coming through it starts the charge which is really really good
speaking of those panels here so this is the solar saga that's the 100 watt panel quite large uh but
really good build quality to it i like the fact it's got the magnets there to keep it closed and
you can see there's the the panel itself so it is big very big there but having them both connected
up i was charging now i did mention my maximum charging rate was 120 watts it was actually
doing well over that so if for some reason the display was only showing 120 watts or 123 watts
it was more like 160 170 watts that i was charging at because it did fully charge this in around
nine hours so if it was just the single panel it wouldn't have been able to do that would have
taken a lot longer than that so maximum charge rate is the 180 that we get with the ac power
supply will take about seven and a half hours and with the two panels on a very sunny day like i
had then yeah about nine hours to fully charge it which i don't think is too bad at all considering
the capacity of it so all up the jackery explorer here i think is a very decent great power station
good capacity thousand watts max i think it's plenty of power for most people's normal kind
of needs and it's gonna be perfect and great for people that will be going camping or as a backup
battery just to run a few little things around the place if you do have a lot of power cuts and
things like that so hope to see you back in the next video and thank you so much for watching