On purchasing this power pack I was very sceptical of it capabilities, but was pleasantly surprised that it gave me enough additional power for a recent camping holiday. It fully charged my mobile phone for three days and still had 40% power left.

Whilst it’s compact and charges well there is a tendency for the power lights that state the charge left to be incorrect. They will stay 100% for a long time then drop to 75 then 50 then very quickly to 0. Whilst not a big issue it can be misleading what charge is left. As you get to know the device it gets less significant. Don expect much more other than charging gadgets.

I really liked this gadget and it is a useful supplemental power source. I recently used the main light for an event hung in an event shelter and from full charge with light continuously on used 6% over two hours with nothing else charged. It throws a night beam. Also you have the auxiliary torch that has flashing element also. It charges phones well and quickly and a laptop though will drain this but you get nearly a full charge. It is good for fans but doesn’t have the guts for heaters. Good for an outdoor speaker. A mini fridge a couple of hours use. I bought one for my daughter who is at uni as this is useful for power cuts should they have them. If you want one to run a heater you will need a more powerful make. I would recommend this and really useful. Being fully charged or at least 80% is helpful. Let’s see in a few months! So far – so good!

We live in a semi rural location and suffer rather a lot of power cuts – the most recent one last week for a mere 2.5 hours. The worst recently just before Christmas was 15 hours. We have a multi fuel stove for warmth and a camping stove for a cup of tea or a bowl of soup but no lights. In the 15 hour outage I used a 2 socket extension plugged into this device and ran our broadband router (broadband still operational) and a table lamp for almost 9 hours before it finally gave up. The most recent last week 2.5 hours ran the same 2 devices for the whole time and was still showing 3 lights when power was restored. It’s not going to run any power hungry appliances but for us it’s been just what we needed. We also have a couple of small power banks to charge our phones and Chromebook during outages. When power is restored I charge it up immediately and we’re ready for the next time. It’s light, quite small and comes in a storage bag with chargers.

I was in doubt at first product looks priddy basic on Amazon’s photos. It feels much more premium and the body is reinforced. More of a compound than a plastic feels more aluminium. It’s a little hefty but not as big as I expected. The weight only shows the capacity rating is realistic. The power output however surprised me. They claim 200 watts however I can run my HP omen off this which is rated at 200 watts when charging nevermind running. I then decided to get a power adapter and plug in a high power demand JBL speaker that I own which claims 70 watts when charging and (85 watts when functioning) it ran them both and still had enough current to power my smart phone it ended up fully charging my computer and speaker. (Computer 18000 + JBL 20000) this Adds up to about 38000 mah and still had 1 bar left of power all’s I have to say is I am very impressed and if in doubt. Don’t be. You’ll be surprised. Brilliant product at a brilliant price at a capacity nobody would complain about. The fan is intermittent. It comes on only when the inverter exceeds a certain temp and then goes off when it goes below so you don’t have a noisy fan like some other products on the market I have purchased.