My Jackery/Dometic Test Run

[kosinar]

I got my Goal zero 500x last week and after charging i run test with my Engel MT35 fridge. I loaded 1 gallon water jug in the fridge, plugged it in 500x, set temperature to 30 degree and started timer. Water jug was about 50 degrees cold. Fridge was sitting in our kitchen in about 72 degree. It was drawing up to 60Wats up and down. After few minutes goal zero output faulted and fridge cut off. Not sure what happened but I reset the fault and let it run again. I was really pleasantly surprised with the result. Goal zero 500X run out of power after 61.5 hours. That was way more that I expected.

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[Chacalou]

Thanks for the test. Looking for a battery solution myself. The thing I dont like about jackery is the handle. They need to ditch it. When space is an issue (and it always is) they need a soft handle so that it is more likely to be stashed or stacked. The way it is now, nothing can be put on top.

I don’t like handle either. U would suggest goal zero. They awesome

 

[OllieChristopher]

I bought a 300 recently, I really like its compact size:

It should have plenty of juice for an overnight trip to power my soft serve ice cream maker and automatic ceviche dispenser when I'm roughing it.

+1 here!!

Jackery 300 + my pre cooled to 35 degrees BougeRV 12V Portable 30 quart cooler loaded with drinks and lunch. Temperature outside was 90-100F. I stuck the cooler in the cars back seat and drove to our cabin 2 hours away up and 2.5 hours back home. While parked with windows rolled up it was over 120F. I had cooler in economy mode.

75-80F in the car while driving x 4.5hrs
Plus over 120F in the car x 3 hours while parked = 7.5 hours total
Jackery was at 66% when I unplugged cooler
Total of about 13.6 watts (1.3 amps) per hour

Jackery 300 is rated at 293 watt/24 amp hour. So I can see running my cooler 18-21 hours under these conditions.

Camping using my Jackery 300 as a solar generator: 100 watt Rockpiles solar panel plugged into the Jackery 300 and pre cooled cooler set at 37 degrees plugged into solar generator using pass through mode. Setting directly under the hot sun with intermittent shade on the cooler. Aprox 85 -90F outside temps.

Jackery 300 solar generator stayed between 98%-100% during the day. When sun went down and temps dropped to aprox 50F I woke up next morning and it was at 93%. So with good sunlight and cool evening temps you can expect the Jackery 300 in solar generator mode to easily last a few days camping with just the cooler plugged in.

As you can see there are so many variables it is impossible to get exact data. Each trip or use needs to be documented. The more uses the closer you can get to actual average watt/amp hours.

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