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Information, again, way down below. So my mom, she lives like 20 minutes if I drive slow
15 minutes if I'm pushing it, from us. And she lives by herself
She has no backup power at her house, none. And I found this out in a very real way
kind of the middle part of last year, when her whole neighborhood lost power for the better part of the day
She called me as she usually does, but not because she didn't know what to do with herself, but because she was starting to worry about the fridge
And a multi-day outage at her house is not the kind of thing that sort of I wanted her to find out about after the fact
So when Jackery, and thank you to them for sponsoring this video, sent over the HomePower 3600 Plus
at a very specific person in mind the whole time I was testing this. Someone who is not going to read a manual
someone who needs this to work the first time by herself or himself. And I figured the best way to find out
if it could do that was to actually sort of, I don't know how to say this nicely
but just kind of beat on it. So we brought it to the studio to test it on everything we have here
We've got a full-size fridge here, all our camera gear, computers, lights. If this thing could keep a production environment running
it can keep our kitchen running very easily. And it did Monitors lights laptops all charging simultaneously I kept waiting for it to complain or give me sort of power surge issues and it never did 3 watts of capacity 3 watts of continuous output
7,200 watts surge ceiling for things like compressor motors that need to spike to kick on
In practice, I plugged in everything I could think of, and it just rained it
The physical unit surprised me a little bit. So let me get into it
We talked about these things in the past, but this one is a bit different. First, 77 pounds
So it's not light. But Jackery claims this is the lightest 3.6 kilowatt hour LFP station on the market
So take that for what it's worth. Comparable units, I did the research you don't have to
are close to 99 pounds. So, you know, it's heavy, but not as heavy
It also has luggage wheels and a telescoping handle. So if you're rolling it around, it makes it a lot easier not picking it up and carrying it
Moved it around the studio without any help, and it was fine. My mom can move it
Again, 70-year-old woman, I'm guessing you could probably move it too. And that matters
It's also, like, it's not going to win a beauty contest, but it's not ugly, which sounds like a low bar in this category
But it kind of isn't. It parks in a room. It doesn't look like a piece of industrial equipment like some of these do
The setup is where this thing earns its place for someone like her. You plug it into charge and the power goes out
You press one button. That's it. Press one button and start plugging things in
No installation required. For someone who's going to call me if it does anything unexpected, that makes everything to me
There's a manual transfer switch that can actually back up home circuits if you want something more permanent
But even without that, one button. One thing worth knowing before you buy the 240 volt output in the specs requires two units in parallel One unit runs at 120 volts which covers everything most households actually need during an outage Again fridge lights router heater whatever devices you charging Just
worth knowing ahead of time, so there aren't any surprises. Now, the reason this unit handles all that reliably comes down to something most people skip right past on the spec sheet. The battery
chemistry is that separates it from the cheaper options. So lithium iron phosphate. Don't worry
not. Everybody never heard those words together. But know that it's more thermally stable than the
standard lithium ion, which means it's safe to run indoors, no ventilation concerns, no fumes
nothing. You can't say that about a gas generator for sure, and you can't always say it about older
lithium ion stations either. 6,000 charge cycles, 10-year rated lifespan, five-year warranty. These
batteries last longer and hold their charge longer too, and for my mom's situation specifically
that's where this thing actually got me. So Jackery calls it zero drain, and the claim is
95% charge retention after sitting for a full year. So charging it up, left it alone for weeks
checked the app, and it lost almost nothing. Now, I can't verify the full year claim
but two weeks of sitting untouched, it was still basically full. And for someone who charges this up
and then doesn't think about it, if something goes wrong, that retention is a whole ballgame
So think about the scenario, right? You're not gonna keep your battery pack and charge it all the time. Charge it once and put it wherever you're gonna keep it
and hope that it's gonna have enough charge when you wanna use it. with this you don't have to worry about it
I think like the nightmare scenario with any backup device is probably reaching for an emergency
and then finding the battery is dead or not as charged as you expect it to be
For my mom, who is most definitely not gonna remember to chop this off every few months
who sometimes forgets to charge her phone, that matters more than almost anything else on a spec sheet
And if she ever decides she wants more runway than the basic unit gives her, there's options for that too
It expandable to up to 21 kilowatt hours with additional battery packs and two units together gets you to 43 Just for perspective an average house burns through about 30 kilowatt hours a day
So the math on the multi-day coverage starts working pretty fast if you want it to
Most people don't start there and they don't need to, but knowing you can grow instead of replacing it
which brings me to the part everyone's going to ask, the price. MSRP is 2,799 bucks
And I'm not going to pretend that's cheap or nothing. Jackery does run sales regularly, so check the link in the description for current pricing
But here's how I thought about it. So if a chest freezer full of food is $300 to $500
one hotel night where the house gets too hot or too cold, another couple hundred
a pipe that bursts because the heat went out is potentially thousands. When I started adding up what a bad outage actually costs versus what this costs
the numbers did make a little bit more sense. When I add it in the part where my mom is alone and 20 minutes away and I can't always get there
fast enough if I'm traveling, it's hard to make even more sense. And I am giving her this unit
That's where this will end up. I tested it. I know what it does. And it's going to her house
One button, always charged. Fridge stays on. Lights stay on. She doesn't have to call me at 11 o'clock
at night to ask what to do. That's the whole pitch for me. Jackery has a runtime calculator
and description where you can start putting your specific appliances and see exactly how long this
runs them, worth doing before you buy. And if you've got someone in your life in a similar
situation, you already know who I'm talking about. There are a lot of products in this category
Jackery's been a leader for a reason. I really like the fact that it is one touch, but really
what's sold me more than anything was a charge retention. I think that separates this from a lot
of the competition. But again, you want to check it out, decide if the price is worth it for you
is the only question you can answer. All the links you need, though, will be down below