JACKERY REVIEW- SHOULD YOU USE THE JACKERY FOR YOUR EVENTS?

By request, today we're going to be talking about battery backup systems, especially what I use, which is the Jackery's. So right in front of me, I've gathered all the Jackery tools we have in our company, and I'm just going to say it like you guys should know it when we talk about battery powered lighting and how much battery powered lighting has changed the game. Batteries, backup, everything, or just batteries to power your stuff, has become super important now in 2025, 2026, 2027 and on. It's just going to become more and more critical and important that you have battery systems in line, especially when we consider the grid. And this is a topic that's not talked about a lot right now, but you know, electric vehicles are becoming more and more prevalent and all of these things take electricity. And right now, people aren't talking about, but the grid system in America is very tight. If you own a house and have electric, you might already have been getting notices of like, Hey, this is a high peak demand to avoid power outages. Please reduce your usage of electronic devices. It's going to become more and more a thing in the future. So talking about battery powered systems and a lot of the things that we've done here at Fusion on my company to integrate them is super critical. So let's talk a little bit about the different Jackery's that I have in front of me, including this big boy down here. And I got to get the solar panel for it as well. So let's start with the smallest of the batteries. And these are what I use in our ceremony systems. I've made multiple videos on the ceremony rigs that we use. And yes, if you go watch the latest ceremony rig from, I think, 2022 when I post there, 2023, we're using the same damn Jackery powered LD Maui 5 Go battery powered ceremony rig to this day. We use the Jackery 300s and we also have some Jackery like 240s. And you can see these are actually the old models. They have newer ones that are a lot nicer. And these guys are awesome. They provide 300 watts of power. And the best way you guys can consider it is if you know the wattage of what your devices are, you could also just Google this, but they make devices called a wattometer. Yeah, this right here, this is called a kilowatt. I made a whole video back in the day, like 2019 on power and electricity. If you guys want schooled and learn more about electricity, but I'm going to simplify it for you right here. This is a Jackery 300, meaning it can supply 300 watts of power per hour cap. So if you were pulling 300 watts, this battery will die in an hour. If you're pulling 150 watts, it'll last for two hours. You just divide it up. So this device right here is called a kilowatt. I'll link it down below. You can plug in whatever it is that you are using. You can plug in your light, you can plug in your speaker, and you can see how many watts of power that device pulls. Now, things like speakers vary in their pull and their draw, so be conservative, but like laptops and stuff like that, you can plug in and see how much watch it actually pulls. So for us, we run ceremonies for an hour, and typically we're pulling about 10 to 30. If we had the power of the speaker, say it was dead, and we had the power of the battery powered speaker, we might be pulling 50 watts of power. It's very low. This is a 300 watt battery, fully charged, 50 watts. You're talking six, seven, eight hours of battery. This thing is a great little device to have on hand, and it's not that expensive. I believe these things go for under $200 online right now, maybe $150. I have to look, but we'll link it down below. And if you wait for like prime deal days, that's the best deal you can get on these units. But I pick up like one or two of these every prime day because the 300s are just super versatile, really easy to carry. It has even USB-C watt outage. So if you're at an event and power goes out, you can power your whole rig on this. You can power a DJ controller, a laptop. You can't power a speaker on it, but you can power your mixer, microphone. This guy right here will power it for about probably two to three hours, no problem. A lot of our gear, people assume that our gear uses a lot of power. With the latest and greatest speakers, newer lighting, the lighting's all battery powered, so you don't even need it. But newer mixers, newer DJ controllers, they don't take much power. So the 300 is like my go-to one that I send with all of our DJs and it's super affordable. There's also the 240, also a solid unit, but I'd probably just get the 300. It's not much difference in money. We just happen to have a couple because they were a good deal at one point. Now, moving over to the Jackery 1000, or honestly, I'd recommend the 2000 they got now. They have a 1000, a 2000, a 3000, and then this big 5000 down here. The 1000 is an amazing device to just have around, period. I take the 1000 to all my events because this will let me power a DJ speaker and a DJ controller and everything. It won't power a subwoofer, but it'll power most things you need. It'll even power a corporate projector for at least an hour if you need to play a video or something like that and the power goes out at a corporate event. We actually had a little story time, a corporate event last year. That was before we had this big 5000. That's why we bought the 5000, where the venue lost power completely. Thankfully, we had up lights at that event, so we quickly master slaved all the up lights to white and then we needed to find a solution to keep the event rolling. What we did was we sent someone to the warehouse, which is conveniently only 30 minutes away from this venue, and they literally grabbed every battery we had. The 1300 didn't matter what it was. Most of them normally have at least 50% charge on them, if not 100, and they brought them all to us and we were able to take the Jackery 300, power the whole audio board, mic rack, and even the DJ. We had a DJ set up there, was powering it the whole thing and the power draw on it. We could easily have gone for four hours on it. Then we took another 300 and put it on one of the RCF NXL 24s and put another 300 on another NFL XL 24 and then we went over to the projector and put a 1000 on it. We were able to, the only thing was the projector, this 1000 had enough charge to get for like an hour, but we had a 10 minute video we needed to play, but when I tell you within 30 minutes, we had audio up and running for this corporate event. They were able to go to the podium mic because the podium mic runs on a body pack. We had the audio rack running. We were able to play dinner music. Everything was seamless. It was beautiful. Let me just tell you, it was the most ranting review. The CEO was practically hugging and kissing all of us by the end of it, that we made his anniversary event continue in a power outage. We were able to play the 10 minute video that they spent a lot of money to make that documented the 50 years of their company. It was flawless. The only thing we couldn't power was subwoofers. Subwoofers use a lot of power, which is why we bought this guy and we'll get to it in a second. So in general, 300s, 1000s, they're just such versatile tools to have at your events. Like I said, I take one of these for all my ceremonies. I take a 1000 just to have in my DJ setup. And if you want to go a step further, and I do this not all the time, but I know some DJs that use it all the time like this. They'll use the Jackery as a UPS backup. So what they'll do is they'll plug in this battery to the hard power of the venue and then they will plug all of their DJ gear into the front of it. Now this only provides 1000 watts of power. And for y'all, I know everyone here is like, maybe you guys know amps, you know, you need 15 amp or 20 amp outlets at the events. Watts are different. Make things simple for you guys. 15 amps of power is 1650 watts. So the 1000 is a little underpowered as a standard outlet, but you can plug in all of your DJ gear to this. So if I go to a venue and there are rain and thunderstorms in the area, what I will do is I will plug this into the hard power of the venue. And then I will plug my DJ setup, my microphones and my digital mixer into this unit so that if for any reason I lose power at the venue, this thing keeps going. I will note on the newer model, this is the older model where we have a charging brick. The newer model, they have just an IEC plug into it and the chargers built into it. And they have an app like the 5000 does. You need to go into the app and connect to the battery and change the power mode to instantaneous. So that's just a little note. By default, these batteries, I don't know why by default, they're the battery switch over is like a few milliseconds. Like it's like a to do, like almost like if the lights flicker, that's the power switch over from running on hard power to the battery. So you need to switch over to instantaneous mode. And I think that turns off fast charging mode is the downside to it. But for the most part, if you're running in UPS mode, you don't need fast charging anyways. So you can use this like a UPS, keeps all your stuff backed up. It's awesome. Now let's get to the big boy, the Jackery 5000. This is the biggest, baddest battery that Jackery makes. And actually, I want to note right now, the reason why I have Jackery, there's other brands of batteries on the market. Yeti, there's a bunch of Chinese ones that are even cheaper. Choose whatever brand you want. I'll tell you the reasons why I went with Jackery is if I'm plugging my gear into this, my essential gear that's playing music at a thousand plus dollar event. I mean, weddings, we're talking 3000 plus. Corporate events, we're talking seven, 10, maybe even six figures for the event. I want to trust in a name brand that's got a warranty and a backing and people I can talk to if it goes wrong. So that's why I invest strictly with Jackery. It costs a little bit more money, but you're buying the name brand. This is the biggest, baddest battery they make. It is incredibly heavy. Like this thing is no joke. It's got casters on the front and it's got a handle. So that way you can dolly it around. But I think this thing weighs probably about 150, 200 pounds. It's no slouch. But this thing has four on the front here, four 20 amp circuits for a combined max draw of 7200 watts. This thing's insane. Like I've talked about in another video, we sometimes use this to charge up lights. You can also use this as a capacitor at your events. We've done this with events where we don't have a lot of power available. Say we have one circuit available. Our subwoofers and our speakers vary in the power output that they pull. So we can plug this into the wall. Again, switch it to instantaneous mode, plug this into the wall and then we get four 20 amp outputs. So when the subwoofers are max drawing, max speed in power, we have the power here to power the subwoofers without tripping that 15 amp breaker or 20 amp breaker that's at the venue. And it just uses some of the battery's battery to power for that short amount of time. Then when they calm down, it fluctuates back and forth. It's a pretty cool usage for it. On the side here, we also have 220 outputs. You can plug in practically your dryer to this. There's a 30 amp 220 and a 30 amp 220 here. The two different variations. Pretty sick. There's also an AC expansion port. You can link. This is their like home series battery. So this is designed to back up a house. You can actually like put an inner switch. It's all kinds of crazy stuff, but we're using it not for what it's designed for, but we're using it for an application that works really well. We literally just used this two weeks ago at a corporate event. The venue lost power before the day started. They called us like, oh my God, we lost power, blah, blah, blah. We brought this with us and we plugged in all our gear to it. They got power back before the event, but we went ahead and plugged all our gear into it. So that way, if the venue did lose power, we did not. Our projectors kept working. Our speakers kept working. Everything was flawless. And actually the power did flicker a little bit. And you know, if you're plugged into the hard power of the venue and the power flickers, that's enough to shut off an audio board. That's enough to shut off your DJ mixer. So it's enough to shut off a projector. So by using this, we have no interrupted power. And lastly, on the left side here, this is your input for the power. And also we have our solar input. Let me show you. We went ahead and invested into the 5000 and the solar panel because now we have basically a generator that we can use for outdoor events. So this right here is the biggest Jackery solar panel that they make. And you can buy multiple of these if you wish. It comes in a nice travel bag and it's a super rugged solar panel to buy. And it just folds out like a tripod that you can lay on the ground. And then this, they have a convenient 25 foot power cable, can run into the battery to keep your Jackery charged if you're in an event where you don't have any power present. And we've done multiple events now with this. Specifically, we've done a couple of like walk-a-thon, marathon, charity events where we're outside, not near any power at all. And the client's like, yeah, we can get you a generator. And we're like, actually, we have a battery generator. So there is no need for noise. Also, weddings are becoming really, really popular to have under tents. And we pitch them every time that we have a battery-powered solution that can power our DJ gear for the whole entire wedding. Literally, this thing right here can power a whole DJ setup for hours, hours on end. You're talking 5,000 watts of power. Most of us DJs, if need be, could power our whole entire reception setup on one 15 amp outlet. If you can't, you probably should look into it. But battery-powered uplighting, all that, you only need to power your speakers and your DJ setup. So with this, you have 5,500 watts of power. If you were pulling 15 amps, like 15 full amps the whole time, which you're not because you would bop the breaker, you're gonna get three hours, roughly, of battery out of this. But most of us are pulling closer to eight to 10 amps, if not less at some times. I've literally found that if you power your normal DJ setup for a full wedding with this two hours open dancing, this 5,500 can power you all the way from basically the start of reception through a six-hour reception with no problem. That's incredible. And then, if you're outdoors under a tent and there happens to be sun, you can plug this guy right in here, which can add up to 500 watts of input power back into this. It's insane, guys. We literally, some of these events we've done outside where we have half coverage, we're getting like 100 watts of power out of this solar panel. That's coming back into here and then our speakers are only pulling like 200 watts. This setup right here is insane. And yes, it does cost a good chunk of money for this Jackery investment right here. And when I made the investment, it cost way more. I looked at the price of this thing right now and literally like ---- a brick because it's like only like three grand, I think, right now. For this guy right here, it might even be less now. I paid literally four and a half thousand dollars for this setup last year. So it's came down a lot in price and we just keep finding new usages for this setup. And I highly recommend it, especially if you guys are doing any corporate events. This setup is phenomenal. I've done weddings now where I didn't need any power at all. I brought this as my generator for the whole wedding. I can't say enough about this setup, guys. Overall, guys, if you guys don't have any battery powered solutions for your like functions and your events, you should look into some Jackery powered stuff. Jackery 300s are just good to use things. They are so great, so versatile, so many things. Jackery 1000, I highly recommend the 2000 for the price. 2000 is a better deal and it's about the same size. Now they've made the new version better. Get these at least. Get you a 300, maybe a couple of 300s. Get you a 2000. You're going to find endless usages. Here's here's a good example. We just did a New Year's party and we had all our food in the middle of the room and we wanted to put a crockpot on it. Guess what? I just took a Jackery 300 and plugged the crockpot into it. The crockpot's able to sit on the table with no extension cords running to it. So many, so many things. I mean, if you guys are going on any trips, Airbnbs, you're going out to the boat, the 300 is just a great thing to have. It's basically your external battery for your phone on steroids. And honestly, it only costs the same price as about three of those. And then if you guys are getting into more bigger events or you need a solution where you don't have to bring a Honda silent generator that is low-key still loud, this guy and this guy paired together are an amazing combo. They also make a 3000 version of this too, which is pretty nice as well. So we'll link all that down below for you guys to check out. These are the Jackeries. This is what we're using for our events. And I love it. So get some battery options, guys.