I have this 3000, 1000 explorer, and 240 explorer. What I like about this HomePower 3000: the Jackery brand name, the competitive pricing which tell me that their marketing dept is in the business to capture the majority of the market share so they're in for the long run, the lovely look of it. Alright, let's get to the real things: I've owned other power stations, but Jackery beats the daylight out of them. The reliability is unbelievable. It has many protections built in. You could do nothing wrong. Very smart computer system inside. You can use a 1000 watt generator to charge it too, but just set it to quiet charge mode first via its free app. You can set it to 15% discharge down and 80% charge up to prolong the battery life. Even if you discharged it to zero percent, you won't damage the unit at all because it has battery management system (BMS) built in. The battery won't lose power over time. It will continue to show the same percentage if you don't use it. It'll tell you the powers of input and output on the unit itself as well as in the app. The battery power and the output wattage correspondence with each other 100%. For example, if your heater uses 1000 watts, then the unit will supply three hours of usage. For 500 watts, 6 hrs. For 200 watts, 15 hrs. With 3600W continuous output (7200W surge peak), you can run high power appliances with no sweet. You can control the unit via your snartphone's Bluetooth or the wifi. With the wifi, the can control it from out of town as long as you have the unit turned on. You can charge it and use it at the same time. But make sure the charge in power is higher than the power you use to prolong the life of it. This applies to any brands. I use my Jackery 240 Explorer for my wifi router power backup because it works much better than my Cyberpower 1500A APC power station. Make sure to set it to never turn off via the app.

What I wish for improvement: The app wouldn't be able to find the unit via Bluetooth mode after turning it on for a while. Hopefully, the app update will fix this.

This Jackery HomePower 3000 is excellent! Incredible capacity for the weight. I can move it around easy enough that will take it on camping trips. The app works great and it can power anything, including power saws. Very easy to use and it charges SO fast!

I have two of the Jackery 1000v2's but needed one with more capacity for high use appliances like refrigerator and microwave. The 1000's do a great job and will power many things but would not last through an outage of more than a day or little longer. This 3000 version will give a couple days or more for our more critical appliances allowing the 1000 V2's to last longer too as well as being able to have power in different locations at the same time. These are not cheap, no doubt, but well worth the investment. They are expertly made high quality units that give you great outage power in a compact form. I will say with regard to the weight, this 3000 is not light. The handle makes it easier to manage, but it is not a lightweight unit.

I don’t regret buying this at all because now I get to see how much energy I’m really using and being that I have two solar watts at 200 W that I haven’t connected let me know that I’m only gonna need three more solar panels and an inverter up in my RV if you’re not sure how much electricity you use and you’re confused with the calculator you’re better off getting this. It lasts a long time but it’s just me by myself so I’ve come to realize that in total I use 1800 thousand watts and that’s me taking a shower running the heater running my fans running my TV running my Internet if you have a ring doorbell or one that ones runs off of Wi-Fi or cameras around your camper and you’re a full-time RV like me and you already have solar panels up top. This is good because when you’re home, you can run your TV until you have the right connections, but this is still a good backup plan and you don’t consume too much electricity because other two hours it’s already charged and that’s by cord as far as in solar panels the 200 solar panel I would have to buy another two and then I would have to buy the cord that’s like $60 a pot to be able to charge that generator completely under three hours because with the two solar panels that takes about 11 hours to charge at 400 W when connecting these together, make sure that you fully charge it always fully charge anything you get and then use it and then as far as connecting the solar panels, there’s two ends that come with this don’t try the second one cause you won’t see no solar charging try the first one on both of them and you’ll see it charge. It says it in the manual and I’m sure not a lot of people want to read that manual you just wanna plug and play but it works for me. It lets me know how much I use which makes it easier for me to purchase the rest of my solar panels for my RV and see where I’m at and see how I use it and then purchase another two solar panels for this, but you could definitely go off grid with this with the right amount of solar panels. I have a 25 foot travel trailer if you have something bigger and you want to run everything get the biggest one that there is of these things they really do work. I got this one because it was easy to hide in my compartment and you have to leave the ventilated and if you plan to run an extension cord to it, it has to be 14 awg
Extension cord because the cord itself reads that is 14 awg and you don’t want to cause a fire but the good thing about it is you can simultaneously connect the solar panels and plug it into your house and it’ll charge faster probably charge underneath an hour if there’s a lot of sun if you want to do it that way I like it I really do like it. This size works perfect for me because I have a small travel trailer, but if you have a bigger one and a bigger family, I would suggest getting the bigger one. Mind you I shut this off during the day and you can control it and shut it off through the app itself. It’s 60 pounds in weight pretty easy to live when it came. I had to unboxed it right where I was at because I wasn’t gonna be able to carry that box if you plan to get this and you don’t like a lot of lifting get the set of wheels for it separate it’s only $100. I really don’t see the difference in getting the wheels for it because that one is expensive and they both do the same thing. It’s easier to get the parts separate and connect it. Just in my opinion, I know you cannot add an extra battery to it if you’re looking for that then this is not the one for you
Because you can’t extend the battery pack, there’s more for people that already have an existing solar on their roof I want to do an upgrade. This will definitely work well with your system because you can switch both of them back-and-forth. That way you make it last longer, but you could definitely go off grid with this with the things that I mentioned. Once I have everything at that point, I’m not going to need to charge. I’m going to be able to go completely off grid for days at a time once I have all the solar panels on my roof because then I can switch it and charge it being that I know that it pulls 1585 watts so once I’m close to draining one battery, I can switch it to my system and my RV and charge it from there but that’s it if I have an inverter which I’m going to get that’s why I’m just calculating right now that’s why I find it good for me