Portable Solar Generators

jaycocreek wrote:
Your right and I have..I also use the power station to run one or both of my compressor fridge freezers when we travel in the car or van plus in the house on occasion..Last power outage it ran my 50 inch tv and the internet router all day....

Like was said earlier,there not for everyone but some find them usefull like myself....If you shop and watch,they can be found really cheap...Saw a 1500wh Bluetti with a 1000 watt inverter for $368 for a very short time but I bought a 100ah lifepo4 instead..lol

I think they have some "merit" for low power/low demand portable use for short time uses.

Sort of like the tiny 500W 2cycle gens that Harbor Freight sold back in the 1970s for under $100..

But to use to "expand" your RVs battery system, it isn't a good choice due to them being much more expensive than just buying additional batteries per Ahr and as I pointed out.

In the case of EBL the only way you get 12V is through the cig lighter plug which is limited to 8A or 8Ahr if you like or you have to use the inverter output to power your converter to add to your battery capacity which is double conversion. With double conversion you easily are losing 20% of your capacity for each conversion so 83Ahr now becomes about 50Ahr..

Makes sense if you are going to be several hundred feet away from your RV and need some power without running an long extension cord.. But to sit beside your RV to power a TV or fridge, not so much..