Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, this is a "solar generator" in the same way a deep cycle marine battery is a solar generator. It is a big BATTERY pack. And that is ALL it is. This battery pack gets you two USB ports so you can charge your phone or whatever from it. It also comes with an adapter to drive 12v DC car cigarette lighter stuff. And it does have a very simple, basic, modified sine wave inverter that will let you run SMALL 110v AC loads directly from it. Realistically, 100w is not exactly a huge amount of AC power, but you can run maybe a couple of your regular household lights off of it or something, but you certainly aren't running a coffee maker or a hair dryer or frankly much of anything beyond a few lights with just 100 watts on tap. And since it is modifed sine wave, there are some things, like motors, that won't much like running off it. There is also a basic LED light on the side, which I am sure would last ages given the size of the battery. When it goes flat, you charge it with the included charger from the wall, or from your car, or from the SEPARATELY SOLD solar connectors. So what is this really for? It is an emergency power source that would be very handy to have in an extended power outage. If you lived in an apartment this would be great - it doesn't take up much room - in person it is smaller than what it looks like in the pictures, and provides a fair bit of capacity. It is also something you could take car camping, although it isn't waterproof or particularly burly, so you'd need to be careful with it. Here is what it mainly has going for it: Lots of capacity, relatively small size/weight, and it is completely silent in operation. There isn't even a fan for the inverter. And it is cheap relative to the more expensive versions made by Anker and Goal Zero. It is not quite as polished a product, but, at the end of the day, it works and I like that I didn't spend a fortune on it.