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What do you intend to power up with this?
We're out of power often around here and since I'm in a cell phone dead zone (relying on wifi calling) I was thinking about something to power up my modem/router. But also wondering what kind of power pack I would need to also power up my refrigerator...
Un groupe électrogène à moteur.What do you intend to power up with this?
We're out of power often around here and since I'm in a cell phone dead zone (relying on wifi calling) I was thinking about something to power up my modem/router. But also wondering what kind of power pack I would need to also power up my refrigerator...
I'm against that.
I can understand, but they're sure helpful. Multiple day electrical outages are common in this neck of the woods.
We're usually in the 4-8 hours range. We had a three days outage once when the Derecho hit.
in theory, the UPS for my home workstation. then I have two 300W inverters that run off my Greenworks 60V batteries that I'd use for my router and the optical network terminal. so ideally so that I can work from home in that setting.What do you intend to power up with this?
We're out of power often around here and since I'm in a cell phone dead zone (relying on wifi calling) I was thinking about something to power up my modem/router. But also wondering what kind of power pack I would need to also power up my refrigerator...
in practice, I might try to run a fridge off of it.
Two days into the
A fridge would run for about an hour off that thing
I thought you had a powerwall or similar??
A fridge would run for about an hour off that thing
oh, no, I just wasted various companies' time to price out powerwalls. didn't buy one. too spendyTwo days into the
I thought you had a powerwall or similar??
A fridge would run for about an hour off that thing
a fridge would have a high transient draw but wouldn't be actually running its compressor much. it'd last for a while, I bet
Probably a UPS would be sufficient if I leave out the fridge option.
the UPS I have is a work issued pitiful one that only has 10 min of battery or so. enough time to save work and shut down, which doesn't help me anyway if the ONT and router are offline since my stuff is all via the VPN.
Will need to do my homework. Pretty sure modem and router don't draw much, compared to a workstation. If I could get 4 hours of runtime I would be satisfied.
oh, I'd be surprised if either of those crested 20W continuous. my biggest 60V batteries are 8Ah so a solid day out of each.
it's the workstation with the 4 monitors that'd be the issue. I could cut down to 3 in a pinch but can't go lower than that given what I do.
edit: my RT-AX86U consumes about 10W when actually in use, apparently. the ONT is something on the order of 10-20W.
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Had a 1-on-1 meeting with a coworker where he asked how I was feeling, knowing I just got over a lingering cold. He then proceeds to tell me he came in for this meeting but was going to leave at lunch cause he was feeling sick. I dunno, then maybe just don't come in and give it to me? JHFC. If you are sick and can WFH but choose to come in anyway, you deserve to be flogged.
People are not very smart, in general...
