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How long will a battery run Starlink?
Pick your dish and battery. You get the runtime at Starlink's low and high average draw, and the same for every popular power station.
Updated · How we check our numbers
Runs Starlink for about
22 h 44 min to 36 h 23 min
Jackery Explorer 1000 v2: 1,070 Wh × 85% = 910 Wh usable, at the Mini's 25 to 40 W average.
- Busy
- 22 h 44 min40 W
- Light use
- 36 h 23 min25 W
- Usable
- 910 Wh
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hours = 1,070 Wh × 0.85 ÷ 40 W = 22.7 h; ÷ 25 W = 36.4 h
Every power station on Starlink
Mini, 25 to 40 W- EcoFlow RIVER 3 Plus286 Wh6 h 5 min to 9 h 43 min
- EcoFlow DELTA 3 Plus1,024 Wh21 h 46 min to 34 h 49 min
- EcoFlow DELTA 3 Max2,048 Wh43 h 31 min to 2.9 days
- EcoFlow DELTA Pro 34,096 Wh3.6 days to 5.8 days
- Jackery Explorer 300 v2288 Wh6 h 7 min to 9 h 48 min
- Jackery Explorer 1000 v21,070 Wh22 h 44 min to 36 h 23 min
- Jackery Explorer 2000 Plus2,042.8 Wh43 h 25 min to 2.9 days
- Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus5,040 Wh4.5 days to 7.1 days
- Anker SOLIX F38003,840 Wh3.4 days to 5.4 days
- Anker SOLIX C10001,056 Wh22 h 26 min to 35 h 54 min
- Goal Zero Yeti 700677.37 Wh14 h 24 min to 23 h 2 min
- Goal Zero Yeti 15001,505.28 Wh31 h 59 min to 2.1 days
- Goal Zero Yeti PRO 40003,993.6 Wh3.5 days to 5.7 days
Capacity from each maker's page; draw from Starlink's spec sheet.
Starlink gives the Mini an average of 25 to 40 W. It draws more when it's busy, heating snow off, or hot, and less when idle, but Starlink doesn't publish those numbers.
The Mini runs straight off 12 to 48 V DC (60 W) or USB-C Power Delivery rated 100 W (20 V, 5 A). No inverter needed. Running on DC avoids inverter losses, so expect a little longer than this.
Count anything else on the same battery: a separate router, mesh points or a laptop all add watts.
On USB-C, the port has to deliver 100 W (20 V, 5 A); a weaker port won't run it.
How we work it out
hours = battery Wh × 85% ÷ Starlink watts
Starlink's spec sheets give average power: 75 to 100 W for the Standard (Gen 4) and Performance, 25 to 40 W for the Mini. It publishes no idle or snow-melt figures, so we show the runtime at both ends of the average. The 85% is the allowance for inverter losses that Jackery and EcoFlow use.
The Mini runs straight from 12 to 48 V DC or a 100 W USB-C Power Delivery port, so it can skip the inverter, and the Standard 4 X has an optional DC-DC supply. Both last a little longer that way.
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