How Long Can a Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus Run Our Boat and Air Conditioner? | SSL782

How long can a portable power station run an entire home, air conditioning included? We plugged our 51-foot sailboat into the Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus and its Battery Pack 3600 at 4:30 in the afternoon and let it carry everything aboard until it ran out.

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Running our whole boat means a lot more than the A/C. Sophisticated Lady has been our only home since 2005, and every night she runs a household fridge/freezer, a second fridge, a second freezer, a 10-camera security system that runs 24/7, the editing computers, the TV and soundbar, Starlink and its modem, and LED lights in the cockpit all night. That's the same list a house needs to keep its essentials running through a power outage, which makes this about as real-world as a backup test gets.

THE NUMBERS
• Whole boat, A/C and everything above: 9 hours 47 minutes on one charge
• Energy delivered: 6.76 kWh of 7.2 kWh, a 93.8% inverter efficiency, one of the best I've tested
• Recharge from the boat: 7.89 kWh in to refill 7.2 kWh, about 91% charging efficiency
• Overload: about 4,000 W for 20 seconds, then about 4,800 W (30% over its 3,600 W rating) for a full minute before its protection shut the inverter off. It came straight back on.
• Jackery's new SolarSaga 500 X bifacial panel: over 300 W at 9:15 in the morning through the boat's shadows, 350 to 420 W at midday

CHAPTERS
0:00 The test: our whole boat on one battery
1:41 HomePower 3600 Plus + Battery Pack 3600: first look
3:21 Unboxing and the size surprise
3:45 AC outlets and 100 W USB-C
4:39 TT-30 RV outlet: 3,600 W from one plug
5:26 Jackery's new SolarSaga 500 X bifacial panel
7:27 Building the six-panel array
9:55 First sun test: 300+ W at 9:15 AM
11:55 Why a portable system on a boat with 3,200 W of solar?
12:48 7.2 kWh, expandable to 21 kWh
13:55 Lunch break: Ricci's home from school
14:21 The plan: run the whole boat, A/C included
15:17 Charging the Jackery from the boat
17:17 100% at 4:23 PM
18:06 4:30 PM: the whole boat switches to the Jackery
18:41 Matching haircuts while the test runs
19:28 From shore: 74% left after 3 hours
19:55 Next morning: 9 hours 47 minutes, 93.8% efficient
20:49 Recharge test: 91% charging efficiency
23:11 Midday sun: 350–420 W from the bifacial panel
24:05 Overload test: Instant Pot, hair dryer and heat gun
27:42 Shutdown, restart and the real numbers
29:04 Verdict and viewer discount

GEAR IN THIS EPISODE
Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus · Jackery Battery Pack 3600 · Jackery SolarSaga 500 X (500 W bifacial, six 85 W panels)

This video is sponsored by @Jackeryusa. Jackery supplied the system; the tests, numbers and opinions are mine.

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Sailing Sophisticated Lady · Captain Rick Moore · 21 years / 120,000+ miles living aboard