SOLIX C300 Portable Power Station, Outdoor 288Wh LiFePO4 Battery, 300W (600W Surge) Solar Generator, 140W Two-Way Fast Charging, For Camping, Traveling, and Emergencies

The Anker SOLIX C300 Portable Power Station has been an excellent, dependable bit of kit and feels thoughtfully designed from start to finish. What really stands out: • Strong, usable power output — comfortably runs laptops, phones, lights, and other everyday essentials. • Clear, simple display — shows battery level, input/output, and remaining power at a glance. • Multiple output options — AC sockets, USB-A, and USB-C cover most devices without adapters. • Built-in illumination bar — a genuinely useful feature, not a gimmick. It has three separate brightness levels, making it ideal for low-light or night-time environments, power cuts, camping, or working after dark. Important things buyers usually want to know: ✔️ Easy to use — intuitive controls, no complicated setup. ✔️ Quiet operation — no constant fan noise. ✔️ Portable but solid — easy to carry, yet feels well built and durable. ✔️ Versatile charging — can be charged from the mains, car, or compatible solar panels. Practical notes: • The light bar is perfect for emergency use, tents, or lighting a small room during outages. • Solar panels are optional but add real flexibility if you’re off-grid. • This is ideal for backup power, not running large appliances continuously. Bottom line: If you want a compact, well-built power station with genuinely useful features — including excellent built-in lighting for night-time use — the Anker SOLIX C300 is a great choice. Reliable, practical, and well thought out. Highly recommended for power cuts, camping, travel, or emergency preparedness.

The day this arrived the power went out, was able to plug the internet box in and contact parent to sort it out, pulling 30 watts from the internet box it was saying it would last 5-8 hours. Got lots of ports 3 usb c, 1 usb a, car socket and 2 plug sockets. Design also looks cool but do keep in mind the vents at the side are open and dust and debris could get in. Charging is fast and you can change the speed incase you are worried about longevity of the battery cells. Only gripes are that is very heavy and weighed me down riding a bike alot and no shoulder strap like on the photos, I just assumed that would be included. Besides from that it's a wonderful power bank for camping, traveling or power outages. Highly recommend!

This power bank is brilliant it's good for backup and outdoor use I personally use my more Outdoors to get power to my shed I've used it in a power cut it lasted fine charges by solar panel brilliant I have a 60 watt solar panel in direct sun it takes about seven to nine hours to charge fully

**General form factor** - It's a medium sized box with a carry handle. You carry it one handed. - Maybe a little heavier than I'd like to carry without a strap, but that costs extra (and I'm a weakling so take that into consideration) **The light on the top** - It sure does exist. - Neutral white with what feels to my eyes to be a kinda greenish tinge. - I guess it's usable as a desk lamp or something? Maybe in a tent it'd be a bit tight, but really you should bring some other source of light. Like the C300 DC! Which has a more lantern style form factor, and is lighter, and if you're camping 300w AC is probably either unnecessary extra weight or completely insufficient anyway. - Doesn't seem to draw much power. - Adjustable via the app for some reason. You can also make it do SOS. **The screen** - Yeah, it's fine. - Brightness adjustable only in the app. - Provides overall input/output data, remaining time, charge and a couple status indicators. - draws maybe 0.1w when running, i could barely even tell in testing **Input/output** - Charges from the wall perfectly happily at up to 330w. Adjustable in the app from 100w. - Also charges over USB-C at 140w or solar at 100w, via the two ports in the middle. - Only one of those at a time, and if you're using one port you can't use the other, which is kind of sad. - Has a USB type A socket and a type-c socket on the left that are both capped at like 20w together, weird design. The other type-c on the right is output only. - I guess it'd be a bit of a pain if you used this in a solar-only configuration because then you'd only get one high power usb-c output and two mid ones on the left. I don't know, I've never used it like that. - Comes with a cover over the 12v car socket, which is friendly, but not in any of the advertising materials. Could use that for expandability if you need more USB ports. - Solar input socket also can be used as a 12v input, if you have an optional adapter. - You can over-panel it (have 200w of panels), but it'll only charge at max 100w. You might do this if your weather is terrible (I for instance live in the UK) so that if each panel only is putting out 50w you still can charge at 100w. - It also makes relay clunk noises when connected to wall power and charging my phone/laptop over USB-C from time to time. I have no idea what it's doing when it does this. **Inverter** - Ehhhhhhh - Two ports, or maybe 3 depending on where you live - It's advertised as a UPS, but it draws 12w just running the inverter in standby mode. - Changeover time is fine, though (10ms, reportedly) ~~_I have been speaking to the support team and they've said that the supply interruption time may actually be 20ms, contrary to the manual (<10ms) and the marketing (10ms)._~~ nevermind, they retracted that - Anker support tells me it has a pure sine wave output! so that's fun, and not in the manual, which is odd - As a UPS for a PC, it's kinda mid because of the 12w idle draw (compared to the approx. 2w of my old UPS) and the idiosyncrasies of switching mode power supplies mean my specific configuration (450w PSU, only drawing 90-280w) don't work with it. - Even if I'm within the 300w power budget, missing an AC cycle on the changeover anywhere above maybe 150w means my PSU overdraws while recharging its capacitor when power is restored, which makes the PSU very unhappy. - You can get around this by charging the c300 only via USB-C so the inverter bypass circuit doesn't work. But that'd be terrible, and you could only do so at 140w. - Probably will work for most use cases that are supposed to be under 300w and some above it - unless this product fits your very specific use case, buy a real UPS instead, rate it at twice what you think you need and have a returns policy **Overall** - It's fine, I guess? - Not as useful as I'd hoped for my specific use case as a UPS for what has turned out to be a particularly picky PC. - Good if you're camping and really need mains for something or as a slightly more portable backup to low-powered ... something (the advertising suggests a CPAP machine). - The app is good, and has all kinds of neat options like adjusting standby timers, monitoring battery temperature and so on. - Someone has tools for connecting it to a PC on github. You could probably make it shut a computer down when the battery got low that way. - AC output doesn't autorestore on power attachment though. - Would like to see an option to limit charging to 85% to improve longevity in the UPS role. - Don't think the batteries are user-replaceable either, unlike a "proper" UPS. That sucks. - No security on the thing either, which could potentially be an issue if you live somewhere more crowded. - Runs my wifi router and fiber terminal for 12 hours, which is probably enough for most issues you'll run into. - You probably want the C300 DC and a separate, proper UPS instead. Form factor is nicer (carry handle and detachable cable), though. Plus it's lighter. - Oh, if you have a C300 DC as well you can daisychain them together to get more some 576wh, which is cool for running AC loads for longer. That's fun. I don't have one of those. - Doesn't work for my intended use case, but I'm not going to return it since it's useful for other stuff and I got it very discounted. Overall rating: Between 3 and 4 stars depending on the use case. Test it for whatever you want it for first and make sure wherever you buy it has a returns policy. It's Fine™.

First off, the marketing of the C300 is ridiculous, parading this 4kg brick around on a shoulder strap is laughable and the lugs for a shoulder strap (AC model) are pointless imho, but the integrated handle is good. Personally I bought this for power outages at home and car based camping trips. Each model has slight advantages over each other but I went for the AC model which is a bit bigger and heavier but I don’t intend to be carrying it far and offers more flexibility. Both have the same capacity but the AC model can be charged slightly quicker (330w vs 280w) with a single mains cable without a power brick. The DC model can be charged almost as fast (80% in 60mins vs 50min) but requires x2 140W chargers and of course you loose ability for pass-through charging while in use. The AC version comes with x1 less USB-C and x1 less USB-A ports but I purchased a Syncwire mini car charger in a matching blue/silver which sits completely flush giving those x2 ports back (45w each), plus the x2 AC outlets of course. My only other gripe is that all but the light button still have an annoying hollow click to them like the previous generation (521 etc). The light button has a nice quiet click, why they didn’t apply this to all the buttons im not sure. If size and weight are really important to you, you only have USB powered devices and you prefer a pop-up 360 light get the DC, otherwise the AC with 600W surge and UPS function might be a better potion.

THIS IS A GOOD POWER STATION I HAVE TESTED THIS WITH MY LAPTOP TABLET MOBILE PHONE AND MY ION BLOCK ROCKER SPEAKER THIS ALSO WORKS WITH PORTABLE TV'S AND ALSO YOU CAN GET A COVER FOR IT THAT COVERS OVER THE SOCKET TO KEEP WATERPROFF OPERITACX 24 PCS OUTDOOR PLUG COVERS WEATHER RESISTANT RUBBER PROTECTIVE SOCKET COVER FOR AC POWER OUTLETS GOT ON AMAZON AND I ALSO GOT NORJEWS 20 PACK PLUG SOCKETS COVER UK WHICH YOU CAN GET IN BLACK OR WHITE COLOUR YOU CAN USE THIS ALSO WITH A CAR CHARGING LEAD SOLD ON IT'S OWN OR USE IT WITH SOLAR PANEL THE ONE I GOT FOR MINE IS DOKIO FOLDABLE PORTABLE SOLAR PANEL 100WATT 12 VOLT MONOCRYSTALLINE SOLAR SUITCASE WITH WATERPROOF CHANGE CONTROLLER THIS WORKS GOOD WITH THIS POWER STATION GOOD BUY POWER STATION

I have updated my review (original below) after Anker got in touch and have responded superbly to rectify the problem. I now have a functioning device that does everything I wanted it to, and which I would absolutely recommend. A few frustrations along the way, but many thanks to Anker for all of their help. Original review: I have never written a negative review in my life, but want to make others aware that this item did not work for me and is not eligible for return. The unit itself powered up, but it didn't power anything I plugged in. Looking at all the positive reviews, I assume this was just a faulty unit. You should just know that you cannot return it, unless you go through some very long-winded steps to prove to a jury beyond reasonable doubt that it's broken beyond repair. Can't see where on this page it says you cannot return it. Otherwise the battery life looks good in reviews and I would have used it as a backup if needed. It's certainly compact and that's good, but unfortunately I couldn't use it.

This unit is so handy, using a solar panel on my window sill I am able to keep this Solix fully charged in turn I have been able to keep phones, Tablets, power banks, and power tool batteries fully charged and at NO COST! Just think all you trades people... Keep on of these in your work van with a folding solar panel and your laughing. Well worth the money!