SAN FRANCISCO – If you see the sun on a regular basis then solar generators are the way forward. They allow you to capture and store the free energy that’s beaming down from the sun, convert it into electricity, and store it in batteries.
Solar generators consist of two parts: There’s a portable power station (think power bank but bigger) and solar panels. The power stations come in all shapes and sizes, from small boxes you’d be happy carrying for a short distance, to big boxes on wheels that you don’t want to be taking with you too far.
Jackery, a familiar name in the power station game for over a decade now, has a new power station called the Explorer 2000 Plus, and this thing is a total game changer. You can scale it up from a single unit that’s good for a day or two of camping, to an array of batteries and solar panels that can power your home for two weeks.
You read that right: two weeks.
It’s big.
But you might notice that there’s something sitting atop my Explorer 2000 Plus. That’s an add-on PackPlus E2000 Plus battery pack that adds an additional 2042.8 Wh of electrical storage capacity to the system.
This is even bigger!
4000 Wh not enough for you? You can connect up to five PackPlus E2000 Plus battery packs to a single Explorer 2000 Plus to give 12,000 Wh of storage.
A single PackPlus E2000 Plus weighs in at 41.9 lbs (19 kg), so the two units combined come in at over 100 lbs (46.9 kg).
Still not enough? No problem!
You can join together two Explorer 2000 Plus units, each connected to five PackPlus E2000 Plus battery packs to give you a whopping 24,000 Wh of power storing capacity – enough, according to Jackery, to provide power for the average household for two weeks.
This setup will cost you a cool $22,500, but there’s little to compare with the power and flexibility it offers.
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