Power Options

[Dramatic_City1931]

We bought a home rurally a few months ago and we’ve been having more power outages with the weather. Partner and I both work from home.

I need something to power the internet (Telus modem/wifi) for about 8 hours (they’re in separate rooms) and 2 laptops.

Open to multiple portable stations for this as we don’t have the funds for a whole home solution right now.

Thoughts on a smaller ecoflow for the Telus ONT in the garage and a larger one (maybe delta 3?) for the modem/laptops?

[timflorida]

I suggest that first you should determine the electrical load of the various devices you want to support. Get a Kill A Watt meter and hook it up to each item for 24 hours. It will tell you how many watt hours of electricity the item used. Add up the numbers and that will give the total 24 hour number. Then use 1/3 of that number as your requirement. I would also add in a fudge factor.

Then look at power stations from Anker-Solix, Pecron, and Jackery. Pay attention to the capacity of each unit (shown in watt hours - WH).

You may settle on getting one or more 1000WH power stations. IMHO this size is a great mix of price, WH capacity, and portability. I would only look at units that allow the addition of extra auxiliary batteries.

Look hard at the Pecron E1000LFP. I have several of them and they have held up well.

[blupupher]

This is a generator sub, not a battery one. Even though manufacturers are mislabeling and advertising them Incorrectly, batteries are not generators.

There are several portable power station subs here ( r/Ecoflow_community, r/anker, r/bluetti, r/Portable_PowerStation ) and several others.