How Long Will It Run

How long will a Jackery Explorer 300 Plus run a garden inflatable (christmas or halloween)?

About 3.7 hours — 3 h 40 min typically, from 3 h 28 min in the worst case to 3 h 53 min at best. That assumes a garden inflatable (christmas or halloween) pulling 50 W continuously, plus the station's 7 W AC mains socket overhead — 57 W in total out of 209 usable watt-hours.

The fan runs the whole time it is standing up, so the hours it is on decide the cost.

The numbers

Jackery Explorer 300 Plus · 288 Wh · new pack at 20 °C, 10% reserve
SetupAverage drawCautiousTypicalBest case
1 × garden inflatable (christmas or halloween), UK 230 V57 W3 h 28 min3 h 40 min3 h 53 min
2 × garden inflatable (christmas or halloween), UK 230 V107 W1 h 50 min1 h 58 min2 h 4 min
1 × garden inflatable (christmas or halloween), US 120 V57 W3 h 28 min3 h 40 min3 h 53 min
  • 0.5 nights of eight hours, or 0.15 days of continuous running.
  • Usable energy: 209 Wh of the 288 Wh on the box, after chemistry, inverter losses and the reserve.
  • To keep it going for a full 24 hours you would need about 1,882 Wh of rated capacity — 6.5× this station.
  • Start-up: the garden inflatable (christmas or halloween) asks for 50 W at switch-on against this station's 600 W peak — comfortable.

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What changes the answer

If instead…Typical runtimeChange
The pack is two years old3 h 23 min-8%
The pack is five years old2 h 56 min-20%
It is −10 °C outside3 h 7 min-15%
You run it flat, no reserve4 h 5 min+11%
You keep 20% back3 h 16 min-11%

If you need it to run longer

These run a garden inflatable (christmas or halloween) for at least twice as long as the Jackery Explorer 300 Plus does, cheapest first.

StationWhTypicalIndicative price
Jackery Explorer 1000 v21,07012 h 58 min£419 / $549
UGREEN PowerRoam 6006808 h 23 min£449 / $499
Bluetti EB70S7168 h 40 min£449 / $429
Bluetti AC707689 h 18 min£449 / $359

The cheapest step up: Jackery Explorer 1000 v2

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Smaller options that still work

StationWhTypicalWeightIndicative price
EcoFlow RIVER 3 Plus2863 h 31 min4.7 kg£219 / $269
Bluetti EB3A2683 h 18 min4.6 kg£199 / $219
Jackery Explorer 240 v22563 h 16 min3.6 kg£209 / $249
EcoFlow RIVER 22563 h 13 min3.5 kg£209 / $199