Customer Reviews With Photos

I'm still learning about solar and I didn't know how much the sun shifted during the winter. I had all my panels perfected placed during the summer and thought that was it. Now that it is winter, my perfect placement for summer was mostly shaded all day. I ended up having to move my panels farther out 20 more feet. I could have just bought another 20' of wire and connected it to my existing wire, but ultimately decided to buy this 60' set so it's just one string. The quantity of this wire seems good, but I didn't take it apart and make sure the gauge was correct. When I do, I will update this review with my findings. Also: The wire isn't really red, it's more of an orange color, I thought that was kind of strange, but not a big deal, but wanted to make everyone aware reading this before their purchase. What I did really like was the free tool that was included, I have never used one before because I made my own. This is way better than my homemade one and I was glad it was included with my purchase. Next step is to build a movable ground mount to I can change locations easy, when it's done I will add to this review with some pictures of it.

I bought this unit for emergency power for my home. I haven't put it to that use, and I hope I don't have to, although I will eventually test it through my circuit breaker panel. But after testing today, I believe this generator is going to do just fine. I read through the manual before doing anything else. Some assembly is required, but not much, maybe 15 minutes. Tools are supplied. This is a heavy generator, so an extra pair of hands will definitely help. Adding oil (included) would be easier with a longer funnel (also included) but it's not too bad. I had some trouble pairing the remote start key fob to the generator. The instructions didn't seem to work. I finally did get it working, but I'm not sure how! I ran the unit for an hour on propane, following the startup procedure in the manual. I'm using the propane tank from my BBQ grill. No problem with startup. Recommended break-in time is 5 hours at no more than 50% of the running load. I'm going to run the unit for an hour at a time until I reach 5 hours. I used the two AC units in my RV for the load. That way, the thermostat can cut the load in and out, which is recommended during break-in. The generator handled all the load with no problems noticed. I measured some sound levels using my phone. Here are the average numbers at different distances and taken from all sides of the unit. 1 meter : 83 dB (loud) 10 meters : 68 dB (loud, but not bad) 15 meters : 40 dB (in house, door closed, quiet)

One day shipping arrived yesterday today installed so far looks good the Ring app shows solar panel connected able to charge.

This is a convenient but slightly overpriced white-label solar tester. You can find similar (or the same even) testers from this and many other brands at higher capacities and lower cost, as well as with better displays. It isn't clear at all from the listing what the accuracy tolerances are, or if that differs for different capacity models - I only have smaller solar panels now so this will be fine, but I was wondering if I should just go for the similarly priced but twice the capacity tester, or if at higher capacities the resolution or accuracy wasn't as good for smaller panels?

This has pass through power is a lithium iron battery making it safer and not as susceptible to extreme temperatures as other batteries. Use it for lighting , charging phones and my CPAP while camping. Will run my CPAP for ten hours in addition to charging phones and using as a light source intermittently. Bought the jumper cable attachment also and actually had to use it on our camping trip when truck battery died. Had 9 percent battery left as we were getting ready to leave to go home. Truck battery had died due to light being left on inside. This thing jumpstarted our Dodge ram instantly. Very impressed with this product so far . Taken it on four camping trips now. Oh we also use it to blow up our queen air mattress 😁 yeah, I'm old and sore, we tent camp still but in comfort.lol highly recommend! Also comes almost fully charged mine was at 82 percent I chose this because it has good ratings and has expandable power. Only small power station with this capability. I didn't have the cash to get a bigger one right now but when I buy the extra battery later this will give me 1200 watts with 2400 watt surge. Great little power station that packs a punch especially for a low budget.

I installed on my battery powered gate opener. This 35 watt unit replaced the original 10 watt solar panel. I had to splice panel wires into battery wires. I was able to use the same aluminum installation bracket. I purchased a new battery at same time as new solar panel. It's been 4 months and working perfect. Update: it's been 8 months since installation and still no problems. Gate opens every time and no depleted battery like before with the original 10 watt panel. The weather is cloudy and rainy most of the time and the original 10 watt panel was not cutting it. I'm very happy with this 35 watt panel. Highly recommend!

The product came exactly as described - 1 red and 1 black 50 foot 10 gauge solar wire. Each wire has MC4 connector ends. While I certainly like a good deal, you should not sacrifice quality for a good deal when working with Solar (or electrical in general). Happy to say, I am fully confident that these cables will withstand the elements outside. As a bonus, these cables have MC4 ends. If you need to cut the cable, at least some of the ends will already be done for you! No complains, I plan to use these for a 1000 watt solar array. After the coupon discount, the cost comes out to just around a dollar a foot. This seems to be slightly lower than the average market price.

Item works great but it is not 5W as in the description. The solar panel is 4W Max Power and 6V.

The VOTOMAN JUMP 1000 is the best investment I have made in a long time. I live in CA, where electricity costs seem to go up every month. The Jump 1000 allows me to charge all my portable electronics, e-bikes, and 12-volt solar outdoor lighting for free. So much better than the batteries I was using. I also purchased an Extra battery, which was not compatible with the JUMP 1000. But instead of finding this out on my own, VTOMAN customer service caught my mistake before sending it out. They swapped it out for the right battery, saving me time and money. It was a great customer service experience. They communicated well, explained my options and fixed my mistake. The portable 120-watt solar panel is great and can fully change the generator and the backup in a couple of days. I have a 500+ Watt array on my roof that can charge it in a day of good sunshine. I would fully recommend this to anyone who wants to augment their electricity bills or have a reliable backup generator.

I was looking for a good, not too expensive, entry MPPT controller; that brought me to this Allto unit (and I also have panels from Allto which performed very well so I am sticking with the brand). With an MPPT controller, you have the option to run your panels in series or parallel, and running my panels in series doubles available voltage (up to around 40 volts, which the solar charge controller converts excess voltage to the appropriate voltage (12 or 24 volts) and current (amps) to charge your batteries. I haven't yet set it up in series yet, but on testing with a single panel it hooked up very securely, and the display was easy and intuitive to read. I really liked that it has a temperature sensor which is basically a wire with a metal temperature gauge which you place on the battery; that way the controller uses as a factor in the float charge (which helps with the charging efficiency and longevity of the battery by not overcharging it.) This will be upgrading my offgrid outbuilding array. In all, a great MPPT controller from Allto, and a worthwhile addition to a solar build.

I was more hopeful about the power ability of this unit because it used the word "generator". It's more like a souped up power bank. My intentions with this power unit was to use it on a cat food auto feeder in the shed. The feeder is on standby all day and just runs the small feeder cog 4 times each day. They is a wifi camera so that I can remotely what's going on and I can also remotely feed if I need to. I plugged this into the power unit to see how it would do. I figured out would surely handle this since my outdoor, solar power, security cameras can run at least a month on a single charge with a much smaller battery. Well, this power unit didn't give me confidence that it could power the feeder (5V, 2A) on standby and feed 4x's/day for longer than one day, and that's with the included solar panel attached. I'm wondering how much power the unit itself consumes. I have a heated vest that heats for 6 hours using a power bank that is 1/10th the power capacity of this. Update: I turned this battery ON (just the DC) with nothing plugged into it. The battery was totally drained in 48 hours. So, something in the battery itself is consuming a lot of power. For short term use, I powered a mini tablet for 6 hours and battery level went from 100 to 86. No problems in any short term use. I also have the 300W version of this battery. The 300W lasted 4 days in keeping the cat feeder functioning. So, if you need a continuous use for more than a couple days, get the larger version. The battery doesn't drain nearly as quick. However, the 300W version doesn't have a numeric power level reading, it has a battery 5-bar indicator. It doesn't drain as much if left on with nothing plugged into it. It's only slightly bigger, plus it has an internal cooling fan. The company was very diligent in working with me to get any concerns taken care of and I appreciate their effort and resolution.

Handy battery pack that works great with solar cells! The big plus is that the pack allows pass through charging! Allows me to hook up my solar cell and charge the battery pack while I use the battery to charge other electronics. It only has one input, USB-C, it’s a PD compatible input, so you can charge up the battery fairly fast with the right charger. It also has a 5.5mm 12 volt dc output, but doesn’t come with the 5.5mm cords. Camping light is a nice “diffused” lamp that puts out a nice area light. light is handy for power outages, camping, night time at the beach! And limitless other uses. LED screen is easy to read and gives you the input and output status as you use or charge.

I’m very very happy with my new VTOMAN Jump 1000 portable power station that I got through tugapower.net. About 3 years ago, in order to have the ability to recharge cameras, phone and other devices while camping and on the road, I purchased a small Jackery 160 for which I paid approximately $200. So I was paying more than a dollar for each of the 167 Watts of power in that Lithium power pack. I’m very happy with the quality and design of the Jackery. Because I wanted to camp during spring and fall periods where it would be wonderful to use an electric heating pad inside a sleeping bag powered by a portable powerpack, I was looking for a powerpack - powerstation that would be big enough to heat a heating pad for two evenings (approximately 20 hours). So, I would need at least 1000 watts of capacity. If I were to stay loyal to Jackery (and there would be good reasons to do so) I would have to pay about $1100 for a 1000 Watt capacity model. From what I could tell, Jackery is only selling Lithium Ion battery power stations. Lithium is generally preferred because of its higher energy density. But, Lithium batteries can only be recharged a limited number of times before that battery eventually can no longer take and hold a charge. Additionally, Lithium batteries can for various reasons be a potential fire hazard. The battery for my ebike has a lot of warnings. The fire hazard aspect is almost a non issue when using a Lithium Iron or LFP battery. When I saw the Vtoman Jump 1000 power station with 1000 watt capacity, I found the best configuration for my needs. 1. Price: the Voltman was $999 less a $250 dollar sale discount, making for a more than $350 savings on the Jackery of the same capacity which was listed at $1100. More importantly, the Votman is a Lithium Iron battery (an LFP battery). My specific Votman model LFP battery can be recharged more than 3,000 times. Which means if I completely drain and recharged this power pack twice a week, it’s lifespan would be 30 years. My small Jackery, which similar to all Lithium battery, has a limited number of times I could recharge it (I think 500), making it useful for a couple of years. This would depend on the frequency of recharging. Lastly, around that time I was looking to by a larger capacity power station, I also wanted to buy a portable 12 v car battery jumper device, which would have cost me $70 or so. My model of Vtoman has sufficient peak capacity that I can use the supplied 12 volt car jumper cables to jump my car batteries with the Vtoman. I’ve been using my new Vtoman to charge all my electric IT devices, phones, tablets, hand warmers, flashlights, ebike, etc. I also use it in my home to power my heating pad on cool winter nights. While using it to recharge my ebike battery. I was reminded of a very useful smart feature of the Vtoman. My ebike battery should NOT be plugged into a charger for more than 7 hours. I forgot this and used my Vtoman to recharge my ebike battery. The last time I recharged my new ebike battery, I had to schedule my personal affairs to that I would be available to unplug the ebike recharging module from the wall socket. When I woke up in the morning 12-13 hours after I had started recharging, I found that my ebike battery was completely charged and cool to the touch, and that the Vtoman was automatically shut down. So due to the intelligent design of the Vtoman, I avoided damaging my new ebike battery and avoid draining down the powerpack. This power station is large enough that if my have an electrician add a supplementary 3 prong electric plug to my home furnace, whereby I would power it from a supplementary source, I would be able to plug my furnace into this powerpack during power outages during winter months. This is a product that I’ve recommend to friends and I would buy it again. I am not ready to install solar panels on my house, but I’ve very pleased that my Vtoman can charge my ebike making my my ebike a “Solar mobility” platform. In my photos you can see my Vtoman next to my Jackery 160. The foldable solar panel is from a different vendor. The standard connecting power cables that came with the solar panel connects directly into my Vtoman. The Jackery required that I used one of on converting connectors that the solar panel vendor supplied to connect the cable to the Jackery. In order not to misplace that connector, I zip tied it to the Jackery. The only downside that I can see so far is that when using my solar panel to charge my Vtoman is that when the amount of sunlight is low, there seems to be a minimum overhead power requirement of 8-12(??) volts to run the battery management system internal to the Vtoman and to power the LED readouts. This is not an issue in Spring when I have my solar panel fully open outside and my solar panel is bringing in 60- 70 watts of power. But, during the winter months I have been trying to recharge it through my windows, so when the angle is off and I am only getting 10-15 watts of sunlight captured by my panels, I can see the lost due to the overhead requirement.

I have found XT60 connectors to be far superior to the older SAE style for RV, automotive, and other low voltage applications. XT60 makes a much better electrical contact than SAE — I've never had one fail or become intermittent. I also like the "look and feel" of XT60 such that you can easily determine the gender and polarity even in the dark. This item consists of a hermetically molded XT60 female connector at one end, and a set of male and female solar panel connectors at the other end of the cable. The current tugapower.net listing price of $10 (with coupon) represents a good value for this well made item.

This panel works well and if I had to guess I'd say is squarely aimed at Jackery users. It of course comes with many tips for other use cases including power poles and XT60. The peak charge current my Jackery saw was 70W, but I suspect that was all it would allow at that time. This equates to about 15% per hour on my 500Wh unit. This also assumes you keep the panel squared up to the sun. If you generally point it south, it'll still charge, it'll just produce less power the less the panel is pointing directly at the sun. either way, for the 500Wh unit, it is sized well to maintain the unit. I'll put this to the test on a camping trip this summer where I'll need the jackery to run a CPAP and the 12v refrigerators. I like this unit for the magnetic closure when folder up and the integrated bag for the panel output cable and adaptors. Inside this bag you can also find USB-A and USB-C sockets for phone / device charging.