Will an Anker SOLIX C300 run a chest freezer? (EU 230 V)

Yes, it runs it no usable-capacity figure see why below ↓

Every check passes. What this page will not do is turn a nameplate watt-hour rating into hours — see the evidence below for why.

Official spec + Derived by WattPairverified 2026-08-01EU 230 V unit × chest freezer

Nominal capacity 288 Wh
Surge headroom 3.8×

Running30 Wof300 Wcontinuous output

Start-up156 Wof600 Wsurge ceiling

0 – 600 W across the rails above

Two numbers decide this, and readers use them interchangeably: watts are the ceiling on what the inverter holds at any instant, watt-hours are how much energy the battery holds. A machine can have plenty of one and not enough of the other.

The verdict is a calculation, not a lookup. What it will not do is print a runtime, and the reason is specific: we have found no published depth of discharge or inverter efficiency for the EU 230 V build, so there is no usable-capacity figure to divide.

Where those numbers come from

A blank is never left blank. A field we have found no figure for says so, and a field whose sources disagree — two documents, or one document with itself — says that instead of picking one.

No usable-capacity figure for this machine

Anker SOLIX states a nameplate watt-hour number for it, and we have found no published depth of discharge or inverter efficiency for the EU 230 V build. Dividing the nameplate by this load would be wrong by 20–35% in the flattering direction, so this page shows the nameplate for what it is and refuses to turn it into hours.

Missing: station.usable_capacity_wh

Energy rate instead of a runtime

26 Wh per hour averaged over this load’s duty cycle

This number needs no battery figure at all, which is why this page can give it when it cannot give hours. Divide any usable-capacity figure you trust by it and you have your own runtime, with our arithmetic visible instead of hidden.

What a chest freezer demands

Running power 30 W Derived from official coefficients · verified 2026-08-01 · low confidence
Start-up demand 5.2× running power Category envelope — not a manufacturer figure · verified 2026-08-01 · low confidence

That works out to 156 W, which is the figure checked against this machine's surge ceiling.

Start-up duration 200 ms Official spec · verified 2026-08-01 · medium confidence
Duty cycle 85% Official spec · verified 2026-08-01 · low confidence

Start-up figure Category envelope — not a manufacturer figure

We have found no published inrush figure for this class. The multiple this site uses is therefore a category envelope drawn from standards tables: deliberately conservative, and not a measurement of any particular unit. A verdict held back by it may well be fine in practice — we will not say so until a manufacturer does.

What the Anker SOLIX C300 offers

Continuous output 300 W Official spec · verified 2026-08-01 · high confidence
Surge ceiling 600 W Official spec · verified 2026-08-01 · high confidence
Nominal capacity 288 Wh Official spec · verified 2026-08-01 · high confidence

Where to buy

Where to buy the Anker SOLIX C300

Prices checked 2026-08-01 · checked 17 days ago

Anker SOLIX Official Store (EU) €269.99 View →

If this is not the pairing

Same verdict, less money

BLUETTI Elite 30 V2 (EU 230 V) reaches the same conclusion on a chest freezer at 600 W continuous, and it is €219. Cheaper is only cheaper when the answer is the same — this one is. See that pairing →

The same load on the machines beside it

The same machine on the loads beside it

Where to go next

From the Knowledge channel

A chest freezer has a dedicated guide: the same records this page computes from, worked through in prose with room for the reasoning a table can only summarise — How long will a freezer stay cold without power?

Questions people ask about this pairing

Will an Anker SOLIX C300 run a chest freezer?
Yes. 30 W of running draw against 300 W of continuous output — 10% of it, with 156 W demanded at start-up against a 600 W ceiling. The verdict is computed from running watts, and start-up inrush — the working is in the evidence section above.
How long will an Anker SOLIX C300 run a chest freezer?
We will not put a number on it, and that is a finding rather than a gap. We have found no published depth of discharge and no inverter efficiency for the EU 230 V build. What it does state is a nameplate watt-hour rating. Dividing that nameplate by this load produces a figure that is typically 20–35% too high while looking exactly as authoritative as a real one. What this page gives instead is the load's energy rate in watt-hours per hour, which needs no battery figure at all.
Why is there no runtime on a page that says yes?
Because "yes it runs it" and "yes for this long" are two different claims with two different evidence requirements, and this machine only supports the first. The verdict needs a continuous rating and a surge ceiling, which Anker SOLIX publishes. Hours need a usable-capacity figure, which it does not. Twenty of the twenty-six machines in our library are in that position, and the alternative — nameplate watt-hours divided by label watts — is the single most common wrong number on this topic.

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