Anker · SOLIX F series
Anker SOLIX F3800
The F3800 weighs 132 pounds, and Anker calls it portable the way Peloton does: it has a handle, and you moved it once. Owners run about the norm: two fridges and two freezers for seven hours a charge; the six serious reports are mostly about reaching Anker. It beat nine of twenty-seven rivals, a chest freezer in a footrace.
3.8 kWh · 6,000 W · 132.3 lb · 3,000 cycles · 35 head-to-heads
5,615
Power Score · The AC & Fridge Zone
- 3.8 kWh
- capacity
- 6,000 W
- output
- 132.3 lb
- weight
- 3,000
- rated cycles
Should you buy it right now?
SOLIX F3800: 3,840Wh, clears 5 of 6 real-world jobs, wins 14 of 35 matchups.
Real-world jobs
5 of 6
Falls short only on Van Life Daily
Head-to-head record
14–20–1
35 adjudicated matchups
Verdicts by Gunner Gustafson and the Test Desk·Figures computed 2026-10-04
01 · Six real-world jobs
What the SOLIX F3800 actually runs
The load profiles every comparison on the site is scored on, computed for this unit alone: energy needed against the usable tank after inverter losses, and whether the inverter holds and starts the biggest single load.
Weekend Camping
Clears it2 nights · Two nights off-grid with essential comfort
2,100Wh needed · 64% of the tank · 1,164Wh spare
Peak 75W: starts and holds
8-Hour Blackout
Clears it8 hours · Keep the essentials running through a night without power
1,645Wh needed · 50% of the tank · 1,619Wh spare
Peak 150W: starts and holds
CPAP Overnight
Clears it8 hours · Sleep therapy without interruption — the #1 medical use case
320Wh needed · 10% of the tank · 2,944Wh spare
Peak 40W: starts and holds
Remote Workday
Clears it8 hours · Full work day off-grid without power anxiety
910Wh needed · 28% of the tank · 2,354Wh spare
Peak 60W: starts and holds
Tailgate Party
Clears it4 hours · Game day power for the crew
670Wh needed · 21% of the tank · 2,594Wh spare
Peak 400W: starts and holds
Van Life Daily
Falls short24 hours · A full day of mobile living — the ultimate endurance test
4,685Wh needed · 144% of the tank · 1,421Wh short
Peak 150W: starts and holds
02 · Head-to-head record
14 wins in 35 written matchups
Every matchup is a full verdict scored on the six jobs above plus price, longevity and portability. This is the set shoppers search for, not a random sample.
Win share
14–20–1
- vs BLUETTI5–5
- vs EcoFlow2–7
- vs Anker1–4–1
- vs Jackery0–4
- vs DJI3–0
- vs Goal Zero3–0
winsSOLIX F3800 vs Anker SOLIX F3800 PLUS
2,851 searches reached this matchup
losesSOLIX F3800 vs Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus
491 searches reached this matchup
losesSOLIX F3800 vs EcoFlow DELTA Pro 3
203 searches reached this matchup
losesSOLIX F3800 vs Anker SOLIX F2000
184 searches reached this matchup
tieSOLIX F3800 vs Anker SOLIX E10
166 searches reached this matchup
losesSOLIX F3800 vs EcoFlow DELTA Pro
107 searches reached this matchup
03 · From the verdicts
Who it is for, and when a rival won instead
Each line is lifted from a written matchup where it decided the verdict, and links to the page it came from. Repeated across many matchups means it is the unit’s signature, not one author’s opinion.
Buy the SOLIX F3800 if…
You already own Anker's solar panels, or you're about to, so 2,400W of input is a number you'll actually reach rather than a line on the box.
Decided 5 matchups · read one →
You have a heavy-startup load and want the strongest sustained inverter on the page: 6,000W continuous is the higher of the two, and 9,000W of peak covers most single motors in a house.
Decided 3 matchups · read one →
You're wiring a fixed home-backup point and want the lowest price for 6,000W of continuous output and a 3,000-cycle cell.
Decided 3 matchups · read one →
You want to spend about half as much for a 3,840Wh unit that two people can still move.
Decided 2 matchups · read one →
A rival won when…
You want the lowest cost per kilowatt-hour across the unit's whole life and you intend to actually get there.
Decided 8 matchups · read one →
You already own a generic-panel solar array and want an input with fewer compatibility complaints, even at a smaller 600W ceiling.
Decided 4 matchups · read one →
It's also the buy if you want the better warranty economics — $190 a year of coverage against the F3800's $400 — and don't need a single circuit that can surge past 4,800W.
Decided 2 matchups · read one →
You're building or already run a real DIY solar array and want the full 3,200W MC4 input [B11] instead of the base's restrictive 2,400W [A2][A14].
Decided 2 matchups · read one →
04 · Price history
What the SOLIX F3800 actually sells for
Anker’s own-store price, read twice a day, one point per day. The buy button goes to Anker’s storefront on Amazon, which sets its own price.
Read from us.ankersolix.com twice a day since July 17 · 80 days
Carried on 63% of days tracked · dips reach $2,000
Built from the Oct 4, 7 PM UTC read.
$2,200
Usual price
63% of days tracked
$2,000
Best we've seen
August 23
$2,200
Today
at usual
$2,200
Highest seen
0 days above usual
How to read this
- Usual is the price the unit carried most of the time, tested for how long it held rather than how often we looked. A weekend promotion cannot move it.
- Best is the lowest price we have read on the store itself. Typed coupon codes, member-only prices and marketplace listings are not counted; anything applied automatically at checkout is.
- A gap in the line is a day we could not read a price. We never draw across one, and we never show the store’s own “was” price.
Method on the methodology page.
Share the numbers
Anker SOLIX F3800: usually $2,200, best $2,000 (Aug 23), today $2,200 on us.ankersolix.com. Tracked twice a day since Jul 17. https://stationarena.com/products/anker-solix-f3800#price-history
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05 · Voices
What 137 owner reports say about the SOLIX F3800
Owner reports are paraphrased from public YouTube comments and each links to its source; reviewer consensus is counted from cited excerpts, never quoted; our own verdicts are quoted. Specs on this page never come from any of them.
- 46%
- positive
- 76
- self-declared owners
- 26
- measured reports
- 53
- videos
- 56%
- Anker norm
- 2023–2026
- reporting period
57 for, 67 against
2 owned 6+ months
numbers, not impressions
10 channels
across 687 reports
2023-10-11 to 2026-07-17
Weighted read
46% positive weighted · corpus 51% · about typical
Raw counts reward whoever writes most, and people write when something breaks. Here each report is weighted by what the complaint costs a buyer (a failure outranks an app gripe) and by its evidence (a measured owner report outranks a shopper’s opinion), then compared with every report in the corpus.
- Failures, returns, support6 against · 3 for
- How it performs35 against · 34 for
- How it feels to use26 against · 20 for
The complaints that matter
- Essentially no customer service: each call or chat takes hours and gets a 2-day auto-reply. source ↗
- Little support or documentation online or in the manual to diagnose low solar output. source ↗
- Unit stopped charging after a month; the return label expired and a replacement has taken 2 weeks. source ↗
By topic, against the Anker norm
Bars count this unit’s reports; the tick is the share of positive reports for the same topic across every Anker unit in the corpus.
- General1 measured41% positive · brand 61%107
- Charging speed9 measured35% positive · brand 48%116
- Price & value4 measured63% positive · brand 67%610
- Solar input3 measured33% positive · brand 37%105
- Expandability1 measured50% positive · brand 53%55
- Capacity & runtime4 measured75% positive · brand 84%26
- Inverter & surge2 measured71% positive · brand 54%25
- Build quality67% positive · brand 67%24
- Durability & failures60% positive · brand 35%23
- App & firmware50% positive · brand 52%22
- Support & warranty0% positive · brand 63%4
- Shipping & availability1 measured33% positive · brand 13%21
- Noise0% positive · brand 57%3
- Idle drain1 measured0% positive · brand 31%3
- UPS switchover100% positive · brand 53%3
- Weight & portability0% positive · brand 68%3
left: negative · right: positive
When the reports were made
What owners compare it against
What owners praise
Charging speedmeasuredowner
Recharges from the grid directly at 240V and over 3000W.
JOHNNY'S WEEKENDS-Power Your World! Solar & More!· 7 likessource
Capacity & runtimemeasuredowner
Ran 2 fridges, 2 freezers, lights, pellet stove and Starlink for 6.5 hours using only 32%.
The Solar Lab· 61 likessource
Price & valuemeasuredowner
Bought both units at the Kickstarter 45%-off rate.
Jasonoid - Solar Power, Batteries, and More!· 4 likessource
What owners complain about
Inverter & surgemeasuredowner
AC charging kills 240V and caps output to one bank at ~1200W of the 6000W inverter.
Jasonoid - Solar Power, Batteries, and More!· 7 likessource
Price & valuemeasuredowner
Sarcastic about the $1600 price of each official expansion battery versus cheaper alternatives.
Jasonoid - Solar Power, Batteries, and More!· 20 likessource
Charging speedmeasuredowner
While in use, AC recharge is capped at 120V and 1440W, breaking whole-home backup.
The Solar Lab· 7 likessource
Reviewer consensus
4/14 positive excerpts, 2 sources
Owners consistently complain that the solar/DC input is restrictive, effectively locking users into pricier Anker-branded panels rather than generic arrays.
diysolarforum.com · thesolarlab.com · researched 2026-07-09
Anker, brand-wide
56% positive across 687 reports. The brand-wide complaint is durability & failures (65% negative); the brand-wide praise is capacity & runtime (84% positive).
From the test desk
“These are the same power station apart from one number.”
“Take the Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus unless you specifically need the F3800's extra continuous wattage.”
“The SOLIX F3800 is $599 cheaper than the DELTA Pro 3 ($2,200 vs $2,799) and beats it on continuous output (6,000W vs 4,000W) and surge (9,000W vs 6,000W) — though not on solar, where the DELTA Pro 3's two ports take…”
06 · Where each number comes from
Spec sheet, in four cards
Every field carries its source: green is the manufacturer’s own document, blue was adjudicated after sources disagreed, grey is the catalogue as imported. Then compare it line by line with the units people actually weigh it against.
Battery
3840
Capacity (Wh)
- ChemistryLiFePO4
- Charging Cycles3000
- Battery Expansion FeasibilityYes
Power out
6000
Output (W)
- Surge Peak9000W
- AC Outlets6
- 240V Outlets2
- 30A RV Outlets0
- 12V Car Outlets1
- USB-C Ports3
- USB-A Ports2
- USB-C Charging Outputs100W
Charging
2400
Solar Input (W)
- Solar Input TypeProprietary
Living with it
132.3
Weight (lbs)
- UPSYes (<20ms)
- App ControlYes
- Warranty (Years)5
Compare it with
SOLIX F3800 vs
leads on 1 · trails on 1
| Spec | SOLIX F3800 | SOLIX F3800 PLUS | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usual price | $2,200 ● | $2,600 | $-400 |
| Capacity (Wh) | 3840 | 3840 | 0 |
| Output (W) | 6000 | 6000 | 0 |
| Surge (W) | 9000W | 9000W | 0 |
| Rated cycles | 3000 | 3000 | 0 |
| Solar input (W) | 2400 | 3200 ● | -800 |
| Weight (lb) | 132.3 | 132.3 | 0 |
| Noise (dB) | N/A | N/A | |
| AC outlets | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| USB-C ports | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Warranty (yr) | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Chemistry | LiFePO4 | LiFePO4 | |
| UPS | Yes (<20ms) | Yes (<20ms) |
● marks the better figure where direction is clear. Price is each unit’s usual price.
Read the full verdict →Solar
Charge the SOLIX F3800 from the sun
Every panel we track, checked against its solar input: which ones fit, the adapter each needs, and what it really delivers.
- Solar input
- 2400 W
- Plug
- XT60
- Panels that work
- 30 of 39
- Refill at full sun
- ~1.6 h
07 · Anker SOLIX F line
Where it sits in the line
Capacity bars are to scale across the line; prices are each unit’s usual price, not today’s.
SOLIX F2000
2 kWh · $900
SOLIX F2600
2.6 kWh · $1,100
SOLIX F3000
3.1 kWh · $1,500
SOLIX F3800
3.8 kWh · $2,200
SOLIX F3800 PLUS
3.8 kWh · $2,600
Not yet on sale: Anker’s second S-series power station: 5,024 Wh, 4,500 W and 240 V split-phase in a 97 lb wheeled cabinet, expandable to 30 kWh, for a $2,499.99 launch price. Anker SOLIX S5000: $2,499.99 Launch Price, Specs, Weight, Oct 27
08 · At its usual price
Cost of ownership
Cycle life is the manufacturer’s rating to 80% capacity; the lifetime figure is that rating times the nameplate capacity.
$0.57
per Wh
at $2,200
$0.19
per lifetime kWh
11,520 kWh over 3,000 cycles
8.2 yr
if cycled daily
29 yr at weekends only
5 yr
warranty
$440 per covered year
09 · From the matchups
Questions people ask
What solar panels work with the SOLIX F3800?
Any panel between 11 V and 60 V, through its XT60 inputs (2), up to 2400 W. 30 of the 39 panels we track work with it. Our pick: the Jackery SolarSaga 500 X. 4 panels deliver 1440 W.
What's the actual difference between the Anker SOLIX F3800 and F3800 PLUS?
Solar input, full stop. Both are 3,840Wh with a 6,000W inverter, 9,000W surge, 3,000 cycles, a 5-year warranty, and the same 132.3 lbs, with identical runtimes. The Plus costs $400 more and raises solar input from 2,400W to 3,200W, which reviewers say also lets it take standard MC4 panels the base struggles with [B11].
Is the Anker SOLIX F3800 or Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus the better value?
The Jackery, on nearly every ownership number — $1,899 against $2,200, roughly $0.08 against $0.23 per lifetime kWh, and 6,000 cycles against 3,000. The Anker only earns its premium if you specifically need its 6,000W continuous output for equipment the Jackery's 3,600W can't run.
Can I use third-party solar panels with the Anker SOLIX F3800?
Technically yes, but owners consistently report the input configuration makes it difficult, effectively steering you toward Anker's own pricier panels to use the full 2,400W ceiling [A1][A2][A13][A14]. Budget for that if you're not already invested in Anker's ecosystem.
EcoFlow DELTA Pro 3 vs Anker SOLIX F3800 — which should I buy?
The DELTA Pro 3 for most buyers, despite costing $599 more ($2,799 vs $2,200). Owners consistently report the F3800's solar/DC input is restrictive toward non-Anker panels [B1][B2], it lacks pass-through charging [B4], and one owner had to throttle back its wall-charge rate after the cord ran hot [B3]. If none of those apply to you and you just want more output for less money, the F3800's $599 lower price and higher wattage specs are a legitimate pick.
Is the Anker SOLIX F3800 just a bigger F2000, or a different tier of unit?
Mostly bigger, not proportionally. You get 3,840Wh against 2,048Wh, 1.875x the battery, for $2,200 against $900 (last listed price), which is 2.2x the price. It also steps up continuous output (6,000W vs 2,400W) and surge headroom (a 1.5x cushion over its own rating, against the F2000's 1.17x), so it's a real capability jump, just not a proportional dollar-for-watt-hour one.
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