Specs, comparisons and setup guides for portable power stations.
Jackery’s Explorer 1500 Ultra packs a 1,536Wh LiFePO4 battery and an 1,800W inverter into a 38.6-pound case rated IP65 with its lids closed, according to Jackery’s spec sheet and user manual. The model, JE-1500C, also holds 2,000W for up to 15 minutes and peaks at 3,600W for five seconds, which Jackery says is ten times […]
Delta 3 Max AC charging is where this power station really shines. In my hands-on test, the EcoFlow Delta 3 Max pulled about 1,614 watts (1.6 kW) from an ordinary home wall outlet and refilled its 2,048Wh battery from 29% all the way to 100%, while I tracked the whole charge in the EcoFlow app […]
Jackery’s Explorer 2000 v2 packs 2,042Wh of LiFePO4 storage and a 2,200W inverter into a 39.5-pound case, which Jackery says is 41% lighter and 34% smaller than typical 2kWh LiFePO4 power stations, thanks to cell-to-body construction borrowed from EVs. Jackery also lists a 66-minute charge to 80% from the wall, a 20 ms UPS switchover […]
EcoFlow’s RIVER 3 and RIVER 3 Plus share the same compact LiFePO4 design and one-hour AC recharge, but the Plus doubles the inverter’s continuous rating to 600W, doubles the solar input to 220W and can grow to 858Wh with an add-on battery, according to EcoFlow’s product listings. The base RIVER 3 answers with a lighter […]
Charging a BLUETTI power station from solar comes down to one check before you plug in: the panel’s open-circuit voltage has to fall inside the station’s input window, which ranges from 12–28V on the compact Elite 30 V2 to 12–145V on the AC200L, according to BLUETTI’s spec sheets. Get that right and the rest is […]
Anker’s SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 and BLUETTI’s Elite 100 V2 both pack a 1,024Wh lithium iron phosphate battery into a carry-by-hand box of about 25 pounds, but Anker’s model outputs 2,000W and refills from the wall in 49 minutes, while BLUETTI’s accepts up to 1,000W of solar, according to each company’s published specs. They’re the […]
BLUETTI’s AC200L and Elite 200 V2 store almost the same energy, about 2kWh each, but they’re built for different owners, according to BLUETTI’s spec pages: the AC200L expands to 7,577.6Wh with two B300K batteries and adds an RV-ready TT-30 outlet, while the Elite 200 V2 is about 9 pounds lighter, puts out 2,600W and is […]
EcoFlow’s RIVER 3 Max Plus is not a new power station so much as a pairing: the 286Wh RIVER 3 Plus stacked on a 572Wh Extra Battery 600 for 858Wh in total. EcoFlow’s US store lists the bundle under the name “RIVER 3 Max Plus (RIVER 3 Plus + Extra Battery 600),” with the same […]
For most campsites, the right portable power station is smaller than people expect. A weekend of phones, headlamps, a camera and a fan rarely needs more than 300Wh, and three compact LiFePO4 units now cover that range in different ways: the DC-only Anker SOLIX C200 DC at 192Wh, the BLUETTI Elite 30 V2 at 288Wh, […]
Anker’s BP2000 Expansion Battery (Gen 2) adds 2,048Wh of LiFePO4 storage to the SOLIX C2000 Gen 2, doubling the power station’s capacity to 4,096Wh through a single cable. Anker’s US product page lists the pack at 51.2V and 40Ah, rated for 4,000 cycles to 80% capacity with a five-year warranty, and notes one important limit […]
