best portable power station for wild camping? what’s worth buying?

It’s a matter of usage profile, when your stationary with low light for 4/5 nights and a person who wants to use the hairdryer, the toaster, the electric kettle, watch a film and work on a Mac desktop etc then you need more power.

For me EcoFlow made more sense that more lithium, it was cheaper and more adaptable. I use the EcoFlow not just in the van but also for back up in my rural Scottish second home, for remote power at events and to run hot water and heating in the van rather than gas.

I use my 4x4 as a mobile workshop and the EcoFlow handles all I throw at it. In winter I charge it on my EV overnight rate and run my workshop from it at 25% normal electricity cost.

But I bought it and the extra batteries at a point where the next model was released, paid about a third of the list price then claimed the vat back.

If your travelling and stopping for a night or two and only using it in the can, then your just wasting money.
 
We managed for 20 years with just 2 freestanding 12x 20" solar panels feeding into the fag lighter socket , able to fit through the rooflights, with the smallest, cheapest inverter.

No telly, no vast array of technology. Just a small netbook and one mobile phone.
Never ran out of power, once.
Even at Druridge Bay and Manchester, in August.
 
We managed for 20 years with just 2 freestanding 12x 20" solar panels feeding into the fag lighter socket , able to fit through the rooflights, with the smallest, cheapest inverter.

No telly, no vast array of technology. Just a small netbook and one mobile phone.
Never ran out of power, once.
Even at Druridge Bay and Manchester, in August.
My grandad managed just fine with candles and a long drop loo, no electric or gas lol

Doesn't mean he didn't enjoy the magic radio box when they got elektrikery though :)
 
Films..?
Telly...?
Nahhh

We were young, newly retired and carefree, in those days.

Apart from the obvious, we often found ourselves in some remote location playing dominoes and cards into the wee wee small hours, under a big moon.
If we earthed the radio aerial, we could get radio 4 on the van radio Long wave
 
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