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Help me understand how well/poorly this portable power station might meet our needs. In a place where power outages are not uncommon, and we do not have a generator, I'm trying to decide whether to ...
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After an upgrade to my home's solar array, transformers in three devices in the home began physically humming: A transformer for the lighting in the kitchen range, a transformer in an audio amplifier ...
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We have a new 200 amp service, with a new meter box and service disconnect on the exterior of the house. Directly behind the meter box is a new larger 40 spot sub-panel. We want to install a generator ...
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I installed a pow-hvm3.2h-24v-n. It works ok without main but when main appears, Inverter does not recognize it. I did voltage measurements before and after the breaker and there was 240 V in both ...
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A while ago I asked about backup battery power for a primary AC sump pump Is this 12V battery backup set up correctly for a 120V sump pump? That and other questions make it clear to me that using a ...
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I am preparing to finish my basement and as part of that, finishing the electrical. Looking to see if the Manual Transfer Switch (MTS) generator panel as I have proposed to use it works. The main ...
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I'm trying to decide on which of three possible paths to take for building a backup system for my two sump pumps. Here's the use case based on a flood event from last year. My property has a high ...
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I'm trying to replicate the battery backup setup described in this video and in text below. I'll state what the video demonstrates, then share the parts and plan I have. I'm looking for input on how ...
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My uncle gave me his old 1000w portable power station. I already have a Bluetti SP120 portable solar panel that has mc4 connectors. I'd like to use this to the power station. I tried googling it to no ...
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Looking to replicate this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001PB7UVA My reasoning is that there is a UPS battery backup in the basement that can't be moved upstairs (for wife reasons), but needs to provide ...
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we live in rental home in Menlo Park, CA and we have experienced 3 power outages (lasting 36 - ~60hrs each) las winter. Normally, I wouldn't care too much since we can "deal with it" but we ...
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I have a small roof that barely fits 12 panels, a row of 8 in portrait on top, and a row of 4 in landscape below. The 4 will get some shadow on the bottom for about 4 months of the year, so they would ...
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High level background: I have inherited a very well maintained generator from my father-in-law (Troy-Bilt 5550). He had a 240v outlet in his garage in the event that he needed to use the generator ...
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Here's my situation. I have two HVAC units connected to Ecobee smart thermostats. Both have C wires and were standard installs. We are having solar panels and an Enphase backup battery system ...
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Can I use an EZ Generator Switch as a transfer switch with a Generac GB1000 battery and a gas furnace (Bryant 340aav). If so, should it be setup as bonded neutral or floating neutral (I'm guessing it'...
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I have a 50 amp breaker and space to put it in my main panel. Can I use that breaker or do I need to use a 30 amp does it matter? I will install a main panel interlock switch and a 30 Amp Generator ...
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I live in an area where power cuts are common. In order to protect my TV from the sudden power loss from a power cut, I am planning to buy a uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Most of the cost ...
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Our house is basically two houses stacked: each floor with its own load center located in the garage. The load centers for each floor are fed from two 200 amp main cutoffs located outside the garage ...
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It occurs to me that it shouldn't take much power to operate the relays or electronics if a gas or oil heating system. That has me wondering about the practicality of putting that one device on a ...
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My home has a Connecticut Electric EmerGen Switch #10-7500 with a 4 prong 30 amp locking power inlet. I also have a Goal Zero Yeti 1500X Power Station (a lithium battery and inverter). Is it possible ...
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I have installed the Luminous Inverter Battery (lead acid) as power back up for essential electrical appliances at home. There is not much electricity cut. I just want to be sure that I'm not ...
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I recently installed a 3.6kw solar panel setup at home. I added an inverter and a 3.6kw battery. When I asked if that would work on case of a blackout the installer told me it won't - backfeed ...
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I have a Reliance ProTran2 manual transfer switch plugged into my Bluetti AC300 battery backup system which has a floating ground. The AC300 is supposed to be used as a UPS backup system and pass grid ...
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I am trying to size a generator by measuring power from the breaker. I would to get some advice from you guys on my plan. I put an A/C clamp around both the cables from each terminal wire ("red ...
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I have a 5HP well pump that's paired to a Franklin Electric SubDrive Connect VFD - the unit converts input 240VAC single-phase into three-phase power (30hz-60hz). I'd like to put a battery backup in ...
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I have a 350 Watt appliance that I need to run pretty much continuously. An electrical outage of a few seconds isn't a problem but more than a minute or two becomes an issue. So I need a back-up ...
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I want to hook up two 3kw inverter generators together to power my house in case of power loss. They only have 120V not 240V. How can I make this work while supplying power to all circuits 120V & ...
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I'm looking to setup an option for long-term power outages. Our house was built in the 70s and the circuit layout is nowhere near logical enough to be able to say "these 3 circuits need emergency ...
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Im new here, and Ive learned alot from many of these posts, although I have not found my exact issue yet, so I decided to upload this. I have a question regarding my installation, if its safe, and if ...
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I have a Generac Guardian 22kw hardwired in via an RTS switch. When the power goes out (and it does so fairly often) the generator kicks on automatically and there is barely a flicker in the lights. ...
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I have a main panel and a critical loads sub-panel fed by a PV inverter + battery backup. I need to avoid overloading the normal capacity in the critical loads panel (50A), and I'm already at a ...
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I have a Takagi T-K3-SP tankless gas water heater, which is installed outdoors. It still needs electricity though, so when I lose power at home, there's no hot water. The manual states it uses 86W ...
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Shortly after hurricane Sandy I installed a generator (Powerland PDU6500E), which kept me and the rest of the county without a major power outage since. With winter approaching yet again, I went to ...
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Scenario at my home: In my home, refrigerator, washing machine etc and other heavy duty appliances(16A current) and lights and fans are connected to the same power line. It was a mistake done during ...
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In a situation of temporary backup power (short-term grid outages), is it ok to feed both "sides" of a standard split-phase main load center from a single 120vac backup source (e.g. an inverter driven ...
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From the images above, I have a 30 amp generator inlet that connects to a transfer switch. I’d like to relocate that inlet box to the outside of the house so that I don’t have to run my L14-30 cable ...
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I want to switch power somewhere where power outage happens frequently from utility to inverter and back and forth kind of like a UPS without giving up on my inverter and what I already have.
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I’d like to run power from a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) in ROOM A to where a work computer is used in ROOM B. I was thinking of installing an outlet box in ROOM A near where the UPS is plugged ...
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My inverter generator's manual states that "If this generator will be used only with cord and plug-connected equipment, National Electric Code does not require that the unit be grounded." I am not ...
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I have two UPS 10kva 220 volt used for controlling system. I need one ups online and the other one as backup. If the Grid supply out the main ups pick up the load and if the main ups fail to do that ...
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I'm replacing my old thermostat due to issues with it somehow not staying at my set temperature. It's a Simple Comfort 2001, and I'm replacing it with a newer model, a Simple Clean 2001L. Both of them ...
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I see 20kW backup generators advertised for homes, but this seems like total overkill, or maybe my math is wrong? According to my energy bill I use about 400 kW hours of electricity per month. So, ...
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I need to do some work off-grid, and I only have a 1000W generator to drive my power tools, which easily draws twice that (and probably more when starting up) when cutting steel. Instead of getting a ...
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I have a DeWalt DXGNR7000 generator with a bonded neutral. I’m okay with house wiring, the fine folks here on Stack helped me out with that. However, I know that these types of gensets create 60hz ...
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I received a used DVR, which expects a power supply like this -- note the 4-pin connector. I want to feed the DVR and the cameras from a battery-backed system like this so that the whole setup ...
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AC 240V location. My computer at home keeps restarting at the time of fluctuations and i loose all my work, this happens minimum once every day and some days more than 2 times. I have 1100va Microtek ...
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I have a 900VA/480Watt UPS/surge unit, and it doesn’t quite reach the wall where I need to plug it in. I'm using it to power an iMac. The unit has a 3x16 AWG cord. Is there any harm or difference, in ...
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I have a steam boiler (natural gas fired) and I'm wondering if I can safely use a small UPS to backfeed power to the boiler, in case of a power outage. I'm not sure how much total run time I'd get - ...
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I am looking for a distribution graph of power outages. I am assuming the graph would show that the lengths are positively skewed. From this I would be able to determine how long to have my ...
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I am trying to wireup a UPS (old one bought for my PC once) to power one of my ceiling lamps so it works as an emergency light. (Stupid idea? Yeah? :P) But since the ceiling lamp wiring is already ...
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