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Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars with 166 reviews

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Customers consistently note the Explorer 300 Plus Portable Power Solar Generator's impressive battery life and charging speed. The solar panel is well-received, and users appreciate the product's portability and overall performance. Additional benefits include its compact size, lightweight design, USB-C ports, and a generous warranty.

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  • Tech Insider Network Member

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great for on-the-go use—Variable charging options

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is a fantastic little portable power station. It's light, efficient, and offers several methods for charging the unit. The screen is bright, intuitive, and very easy to read. This unit originally arrived at a bad time, as we were having overcast days. It meant trying to charge it with the solar panel would be mostly futile. The solar panel seems well made, although I do have some concerns over the material. I mean, they need to make it thin, which seems to carry a slightly different composition, or possibly materials, from any other solar panel I've held or had the chance to examine. By comparison, this panel has a rough material coating the solar cells. Like beads of glass, likely a plastic-based component, that form a texture similar to rough gravel. It's far from the typical smooth glass-encapsulated panels I've seen on ordinary garden trinkets, such as solar lights or residential rooftops. By contrast, those same trinkets seem to charge on the cloudiest days. This device, on the other hand, charges, if you can call it that, between 0W and 1W according to the display on the station. In what I would consider good sunlight, I did manage to get a charge of about 20W according to the display. I don't really know if the ratings on paper factor in resitances, environmental, and other factors. There's a companion app you can use with the station. It allows for remote control of the inputs, granular tuning of the display timeout, and a standby shutdown timer. While I do enjoy the app, I do feel that the WiFi functionality is somewhat redundant to my needs. The first is that I can control the inputs from my phone while sitting in the back yard, with the station being in the front yard. I normally wouldn't have that option using Bluetooth; I just don't see the benefits to it. The initial connection seems to require a connection to a remote server. Then afterwards, you can remotely control it from within your LAN network. This works for a camper who carries a networking device on their adventures for interconnecting devices. The second, adding networking functionality, creates a new attack vector for your network. In an offline network, this situation is mitigated, but with an always connected network, this could be a different story. I will say that I don't know how quickly Jackery resolves security vulnerabilities in either their app, firmware, or services. I like that you can go up to as much as the Solar Saga 100W if you need a higher input. But for solar charging, they include a DC to USB C adaptor. The embedded flash light has an ON and SOS mode. In on-state, this is extremely overkill for me. I can't see myself walking around with this spotlight to shine deep into a dark path. For context, this has a roughly 25' range. It makes me believe a flood lamp would have been much more useful for everyday use. In SOS mode, I can see why you would want something with range. A candle may not be bright enough to be seen by people who may be able to help you. Overall, I really love this thing. It's lightweight, versitile, and very useful. Despite my few personal issues with it—solar, solar adaptor, remote app control, and flash light—I don't believe you can go wrong with it. Especially if you just want to keep phones and laptops charged while on a trip. The solar panel makes it usable while camping or on your adventures. This is worth 5-stars.

  • Tech Insider Network Member

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Great when power goes out

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is a great addition to a home if you lose power, or even if you just go out to the park, beach etc. all day. It has 2 USB-C, 1 USB-A and an outlet plug. Plus, it does have a light and a car plug. It is not all that big in size, but it packs a huge punch for what it can charge and do. My reason for 4 stars though. First is that the solar panel does not have any kind of support for it to allow you to angel it. There is no carry bag/case. It would have been nice to see this come with a case that it all stores in. They did give you a case to put the charging cords in. But would have been nice to store everything together. The solar panel cord plugs into one of the USB-C ports so if you charge it with that, you lose a port that you can use. The cord has a round plug and then an adaptor that goes into the USB-C port. Not sure why they could not just make a spot that would use the round plug to charge. I would have also like to have seen this automatically pick up when you plug something in to charge. I would like to not have to turn it on and then you also have to turn on the outlets as well. So, if you are going to use the plug, you have to turn the unit on, and then turn on the plug. Granted you can turn on both sides. But for me, it would have been nice to maybe just turn on the unit, and then it autodetect if I plug something into the USB-C, or plug or whatever spot etc. Overall, though, I love the color, at least the orange. It charges but if you plug directly into the USB ports, it does not fast charge.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Battery life, Charging speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great power source

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great power source for the price fast charging space charge for long time

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Battery life

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great product!

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    We were able to charge our phones and Apple Watches all week on our camping trip.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Portability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Buy it NOW

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works as advertised. Easy setup and portability. Highly recommended.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 1 out of 5 stars

    NO PANELS

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Where’s my solar panels the generator came but no panels and that’s the amount you took from my account

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend