What it is, however, is a battery. It has no electricity generating capacity of any sort. It is compatible with separately sold solar panels, which do all of the “solar generating” but are not included. The panels cost more than the fraudulently labeled “generator,” as indeed they should since they do all the work of generating electricity.
I gather this company is doing very well on Amazon, which is thereby a (probably unwitting) participant in the fraud. I’ve tried to alert them, but their customer service for that has been outsourced to a bot that doesn’t understand the problem.
So anyway, be warned about this company and its unethical practices.
2 comments:
Like you I hate that it's calling itself a "generator" -- even with the Jackery-brand or 3rd party solar panels connected the practical power "in" is orders of magnitude lower than the claimed capacity.
But as an electricity-bank to keep someone's medical-equipment, sump-pump, or pellet-stove operational during a power-failure, they're really quite well-thought out and are a reasonable retail cost for what they are. And unlike a generator you can just drop them indoors next to the thing that needs to be powered, and plug-in.
Love it for what it is, not what it purports to be.
We bought one for my wife's medical equipment. Ours came with the solar panels.
However, it will only run one piece of her equipment at a time. The first time we used it, plugging her CPAP and oxygen concentrator into it, the thing only lasted about 10 minutes before the battery drained down. Thankfully we had a gas powered generator, which has since been upgraded. It's just a pain in the ass having to drag extension cords all over the house. I plan on hooking it up to the panel as soon as I can find an electrician who isn't covered up.
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