Anyone up on portable power stations/solar generators?

Its also important to look at ampacity.

ie. 1000 watts for an hour vs 1000 watts for 3 hours

Your unit wont last very long with less than 50/ah

Also note, its not usually sunny when you need it (night time or cloudy storm skies) so the solar panels aren’t going to be as useful as you think.
You would be better off buying a couple
deep cycle batteries, a charger, and inverter.

Just my opinion

I used to have a gasoline generator-- but I got rid of it.

My needs were a response to power outages due to hurricanes. In this area even a moderate storm can take the power out for a week or two. It's the live oaks coming down. My specific needs were to keep my late wife's medicine cold.

We realized that the Publix stores are all on emergency backup which seems to be able to last for days, and that the pharmacy there is glad to hold refridgerated medicines for people. So we did that. No stress.

Then we were down to basic needs.

After my wife passed, I got rid of the generator because I realized I really didn't need to keep the AC on, and I really didn't need the range or the refridgerator in the event of an extended outage.

It was a pain in the ass to store the gasoline to keep it going. Nothing like having dozens of gallons of gasoline to have the storm wobble, spare you, and then I am sitting on gasoline that will take some time to use...

So I have a propane camping stove and a Jackery. A small one at that, as all I really need to do is charge my phone. I have the modem on the UPS from when I had a desk top computer. I generally have WiFi for outages as long as several hours.

Takes the stress off.

The wife had a lot of anxiety about power outages, especially over the pandemic and the summer heat wave, so we've spent a lot on these things over the past few years.

We have two Jackery 500s, a Jackery 1000 and the new Jackery 2000 Pro. What we've found is that they all seem to work fine, as long as you're realistic about what you try to run off them.

I regularly carry the 1000 around with me when I'm performing maintenance on our fence. It runs a cheap Black and Decker plug-in drill without any issues at all. I tried to run a Skil circular saw off it, but it simply didn't have the oomph to handle it.

We ran a portable air conditioner off the 2000 Pro, and it worked like a champ with no problems, so we were set if the power went out in the middle of a heat wave.

The wife regularly operates her sewing machine off the 1000, and maybe the 500s, too? I'm not sure about that.

We set them out in the back yard with the solar panels and they charge up fine. It's all plug and play, and we haven't had any issues with them at all.

We looked at a variety of vendors for this sort of thing before we bought anything, and went with Jackery mostly because it seemed pretty straightforward. I'm sure the other comparable units probably work just as well, but we've been happy with these.

EcoFlow also has very well rated solar generators. Echo the thoughts of others 1000KwH is not much .. and you should consider recharge options once depleted in an emergency if still cloudy/raining, snowing, etc. Takes several hours with solar panels on clear, sunny day.

You can put in a Natural Gas unit that will kick on automatically and run your whole house until grid power is restored. Can also have a gas powered you'll have to connect and fuel, but will also run as long as needed if fueled.

1000 W is not much. That won’t run a stove a hot water heater or even a small electric heater

I have a generac whole house generator that is powered by natural gas and it’s 22kW so when power goes out …I literally have zero worries

We've got two, different models. Bought one about 10 years ago, one last year. Won't run a house or heavy duty stuff, but will give us lights, keep the fish tank running, etc.