Jackery has announced three new products for its HomePower line of backup batteries, including the expandable HomePower 3600 Pro Max home backup system. The company is also planning to release a new expandable backup battery for targeted backups of things like appliances, and a new lightweight portable 1,024Wh battery that could make for a very useful uninterruptible power supply (UPS) alternative.
The HomePower 3600 Pro Max is effectively a higher-performing, more feature-packed version of Jackery’s existing HomePower 3600 Plus. It has a similar base capacity of 3,584kWh, but its output wattage has been bumped a little from a continuous 3,600 watts to 4,000 watts, with an 8,000-watt peak surge (up from 7,200 watts). It’s not quite a whole-home backup system like the Anker Solix E10 I recently reviewed, but it can automatically power the circuits connected to a manual transfer switch. Jackery says it can automatically flip on backup power in just 10 milliseconds when an outage occurs, or half the 20 milliseconds it takes the Solix E10—impressive, but perhaps practically meaningless, considering I never noticed when the Solix E10 switched to backup power in my testing.
Jackery offers expansion batteries that can get the HomePower 3600 Pro Max up to 43kWh of capacity. It can handle 240-volt appliances, and unlike the Solix E10, it doesn’t require a bespoke power strip to add standard power outlets that you can use when you’re near it—the 3600 Pro Max sports two 120V AC outlets, one 240V AC outlet, a 100-watt USB-C port, and an 18-watt USB-A port right on the front. It can recharge itself at up to 4,000 watts via its AC input or up to 1,200 watts from solar power through its DC port. At 71 pounds, it’s a bit lighter than its 77-pound predecessor.
The HomePower 3600 Pro Max starts at $2,999, which is definitely cheaper than the $4,300 Solix E10, but notably, its 3.5kWh capacity is only a little more than half the 6kWh offered by the base Anker kit.
Jackery also announced the $1,799 HomePower 2000 Plus v2, a system that’s more for targeted backups of things like appliances. It’s expandable and starts with a 2,048Wh base capacity, but can go as high as 12kWh with additional expansion battery packs. The company says it can output a steady 2,400 watts and briefly surge up to 4,800 watts. Its main unit features four AC power outlets, one 140-watt USB-C port, one 30-watt USB-C port, and one 18-watt USB-A port. The 2000 Plus v2 lets you prioritize outlets so that lower-priority ones are shut off in the event of an outage.
The HomePower 2000 Plus v2’s base capacity and output wattage mean it could run an AC window unit for up to 2.5 hours, according to Jackery. That’s feasible, at least based on my continued testing of the DJI Power 2000, which has similar specs and that I’ve recently been using to power a window unit that draws around 600 watts when cooling in eco mode.
Finally, there’s the $849 HomePower 1000 v2, a compact, portable battery that weighs about 23 pounds, has a 1,024Wh capacity, and outputs a continuous 1,500 with surges up to 3,000W. At just 12 inches long and 9 inches tall, the 1000 v2 is very small for a 1,024Wh battery and could easily fit underneath a desk without taking up precious foot space. Jackery promotes the thing as a UPS replacement that features lightning protection and can switch your devices to battery power in 10 milliseconds in the event of an outage. Its capacity and rated output would absolutely make it an improvement over my aging, lead acid battery-equipped Tripp Lite UPS. But you might find you need an additional power strip to really use it as a UPS, since it only has three grounded AC outlets, two USB-C ports (rated 30W and 130W, respectively), and a single 18W USB-A port.
Like many other Jackery backup batteries, these new HomePower batteries are LiFePo4, a battery chemistry that’s both safer and longer-lived than the lithium-ion batteries found in most of our small electronics.
Jackery’s new HomePower products will be available on the company’s website starting on June 23.
