MacRumors Giveaway: Win an Explorer 500 Portable Power Station From Jackery

For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Jackery to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Power Station that's ideal for keeping all of your Apple devices charged up for emergencies, camping, road trips, power outages, and more.

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Priced at $500 and often available on sale, the Explorer 500 is Jackery's mid-range power station, offering a 518 watt-hour lithium-ion battery.

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It's equipped with a pure sine wave AC outlet, a 12V/10A carport, and three 5V/2.4A USB-A ports. It can power any of your Apple products from iPhones to MacBooks, plus it has enough juice to run TVs, projectors, fans, and other appliances that draw under 500 watts.

The carport and USB-A ports can power car appliances like coolers, air pumps, vacuums, and more, along with smartphones, iPads, and other small electronics.

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With the ability to hold a charge on standby for weeks at a time, the Jackery Explorer 500 is ideal for power outages and other emergencies. It can run a router or a cable modem to keep you connected, or run lights and other accessories when you're out camping.

There's a handle that makes the Jackery Explorer 500 easy to carry, and there are built-in fans to keep it cool. An LCD screen on the front displays the current power level and the watts that are being drawn so you can keep track of your power usage.

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Jackery will soon celebrate Jackery Day, which will see brand new power station models coming out on March 17. Jackery will also be hosting a giveaway on its own site in addition to the E500 giveaway that MacRumors is offering.

We have two of the Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Battery Stations to give away. To enter to win our giveaway, use the Gleam.io widget below and enter an email address. Email addresses will be used solely for contact purposes to reach the winners and send the prizes. You can earn additional entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, following us on Instagram, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.

Due to the complexities of international laws regarding giveaways, only U.S. residents who are 18 years or older and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory are eligible to enter. To offer feedback or get more information on the giveaway restrictions, please refer to our Site Feedback section, as that is where discussion of the rules will be redirected.

The contest will run from today (March 12) at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time through 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on March 19. The winners will be chosen randomly on March 19 and will be contacted by email. The winners will have 48 hours to respond and provide a shipping address before new winners are chosen.

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Top Rated Comments

44267547 Avatar
63 months ago
Totally useful tool when needed, think Texas power outages for example to charge phones/use other electronic products.

Awesome giveaway.
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Westside guy Avatar
63 months ago
Awesome! I'd love to win this.

And to preemptively answer the perennial question... yes, real people do win these. I won one of these giveaways in Spring 2020 - got a very nice Woolnut Folio.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
trevorep Avatar
63 months ago

Super cool device. This would be the perfect camping accessory if it had a solar panel input.
They sell a solar panel for this for $300.
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zorinlynx Avatar
63 months ago

There are far cheaper ways to charge phones/use other electronic products during outages.

A small UPS is about 25% the price of this.

Don't get me wrong, this is quite a good option for outdoor activities, bit expensive though.
A small UPS offers nowhere near 500 watthours of energy, is nowhere near as efficient at converting the power as one of these, and isn't designed to be used for much longer than "BEEP BEEP BEEP! Oh crap, the power is out. (10 seconds later) Damnit, it's still out. BEEP BEEP BEEP! I wonder if it's coming back? Hmm, maybe not. BEEP BEEP BEEP! Oh well, better shut everything down."

To actually continue using devices during a power outage for a longer term, you need something like this product. The problem of course is they're still rather overpriced, but they're getting there!

(Just as a comparison, my Tripplite 1300VA UPS has two 12V 8AH batteries in it. That's 12*8*2 = 192WH. That's less than half what this unit offers, and the batteries are lead-acid so not designed to be discharged very much. Great for power backup, lousy to use long term!)
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aesc80 Avatar
63 months ago
Very neat! Congrats to whoever wins this!
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kyleh22 Avatar
63 months ago
Super cool device. This would be the perfect camping accessory if it had a solar panel input.
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