I love my goal zero 500,!!!!!! Even though I live in the city or country I am trying to get my house as much off grid as possible. I use the 500 in my bedroom and I use it for my lighting. I also take it to work I'm a plumber by trade so I use it to charge up my batteries for all of my power tools. Usually at work somebody always comments what is that thing. I tell him and then I go into a big spiel about how I'm trying to get off grid as much as possible. By the end of the day usually when I'm on a new work site I end up with everybody's phones sitting on my tool cart and they're charging them up. It's really kind of funny everybody wants to know about it and I think a couple of people have inquired on how to get one they're not in the stores and it's really sad that more stores don't have them on the shelf. Really looking forward to get a larger unit.
I have four of these. One has some display function issues, but nothing serious, and it still functions well. One of them will no longer charge by solar, I bought it when they first came out. It still charges by USB-C cord and functions fine. The other two work as if brand new and without any issues whatsoever.
I love this little guy. Works great for camping and any type of small portable power, very light too with the lithium battery. Charges at a decent rate with the 50 watt solar panel on a sunny day or in the garage/truck with the supplied ac adapter.
One of the best camping investments I’ve ever made. It lasted all evening, and night. It charged in about 5 hours with it being at 20%. I used two 50 watt nomad panels.
So far I really like this unit. Great for car camping, filling up air mattresses, charging small devices, even used a small 12v tea kettle. Not nearly as heavy as I thought it might be.
The size is perfect for my overland trip it charges fast and keep my cameras and drone batteries plus laptop plus dometic fridge running all day and night long when I am running suit a 100 watts solar panel