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4 Jan 2021

Review: Goal Zero Yeti 1500x Portable Power Station

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-10-13T17:21:19-07:00Jan 4, 2021 - Monday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 24 mins. Goal Zero products are expensive. They are also the industry leader in portable power stations with a safety record to brag about. The Yeti 500x became one of my all-time favorite batteries, and when a wildfire forced us to evacuate our home, it was time for us to look for a higher-capacity one that could power our most important appliances for days or weeks. This is our review of the Goal Zero Yeti 1500x, and how I used it with other brands' solar panels and power stations.

16 Sep 2020

Review: Jackery Explorer 300 (vs Explorer 1000) Portable Power Station

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-10-13T17:21:34-07:00Sep 16, 2020 - Wednesday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 18 mins. Back in April, I purchased the Jackery Explorer 1000 and the Goal Zero Yeti 500x later as a result of 2019's fires. Coincidentally, this year's fires on the entire US west coast is actually WORSE with new records broken! I cannot stress how important it is to be prepared for emergencies! Thankfully, there has been an increase in people taking emergency preparation more seriously. When Jackery announced the Explorer 300 with a special launch price and some improvements over the Explorer 1000, I jumped on it for one simple reason: my little boy loves camping and I wanted him to have a mini-Explorer of his own (actually, I wanted another backup battery, but don't tell him that). It DOES look awfully cute to have him and I stand next to one another holding our own Explorers!

13 Jul 2020

Review: Jackery SolarSaga 100W Solar Panel (Gen 2 vs 3)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-05-20T09:20:22-07:00Jul 13, 2020 - Monday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 8 mins. Jackery impressed me with their Explorer 1000 battery power station and its excellent customer service. I complemented it with two SolarSaga 100W solar panels for camping and in case we had a power outage. That was exactly what happened one day: we lost power for an ENTIRE day. Were the panels able to produce enough energy to get us through the whole day working from home?

12 Jul 2020

Power Generators: Gas vs Propane vs Battery Station (and Solar)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-10-13T17:21:44-07:00Jul 12, 2020 - Sunday|Do-It-Yourself, General, Travel|

Read: 11 mins. In an emergency, we could find ourselves stranded with no electricity in a World that is consuming much more power today than ever before. Just in the past year alone, the globe was hit with numerous fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and even riots! Solar panels were installed in our home earlier this year during the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in grid power staying shut for nearly the entire day while the family had to work from home and do distance learning. In this article, we look into generators and battery power stations to provide electricity, and look at the differences between gas, propane, and battery as energy sources.

9 May 2020

Review: Goal Zero Yeti 500x Portable Power Station

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-10-13T17:21:53-07:00May 9, 2020 - Saturday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 19 mins. Goal Zero products are expensive. They are also the industry leader in portable power stations with a safety record to brag about. After having reviewed a handful of batteries, I finally took the plunge to look at the newly-released Yeti 500x. What I learned over the past five weeks surprised me.

17 Apr 2020

Review: Jackery Explorer 1000 Portable Power Station

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-10-13T17:22:01-07:00Apr 17, 2020 - Friday|Product Reviews, Reviews|

Read: 19 mins. Jackery, a young company founded as recently as 2012, is one of Amazon's top sellers in the portable power station category. Its newest, most powerful battery was just released in 2020: the "Explorer 1000". In this review, the high-capacity power station will be dissected to see what makes the company's products so appealing.

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