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[Coolbreeze704]

Powered 2 frig's, several lights, fan, TV, router during 3 power outages we have had over the last 9 months. Hardly used any battery each day of each outage. Was wonderful to have.

Funny you read and reacted to this today.

This morning at 6am I woke up to our 4th outage since December. Power did not come back on till four. Lightning to the rescue again. I have a plastic tote put back with every I need when power goes off. Becoming an old pro at powering up the house.

Without this ability to run frig and separate freezer we would have lost hundreds each power outage. I have lived in this house for 23 years and have only had a handful of outages that whole time. Starting to feel like I live in a third world country.

I seriously hope Tesla comes through with multiple outlets for me to power the house or my food bill will be going up after the CT replaces the Lightning.

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[FutureBoy]

Funny you read and reacted to this today.

This morning at 6am I woke up to our 4th outage since December. Power did not come back on till four. Lightning to the rescue again. I have a plastic tote put back with every I need when power goes off. Becoming an old pro at powering up the house.

Without this ability to run frig and separate freezer we would have lost hundreds each power outage. I have lived in this house for 23 years and have only had a handful of outages that whole time. Starting to feel like I live in a third world country.

I seriously hope Tesla comes through with multiple outlets for me to power the house or my food bill will be going up after the CT replaces the Lightning.

Hmmm... Seems like you might want to also consider adding some power walls. Especially if you are in an area where you can join a VPP. Then you could not only save the effort bringing the house back up each time, you could be making pretty good $$ during each outage.

Possible side effect, you feel like a king living in a third-world country.

 

[Coolbreeze704]

Hmmm... Seems like you might want to also consider adding some power walls. Especially if you are in an area where you can join a VPP. Then you could not only save the effort bringing the house back up each time, you could be making pretty good $$ during each outage.

Possible side effect, you feel like a king living in a third-world country.

I agree.
I looked into solar and powerwall but I'm retiring next December and going to downsize so next home will be solar/powerwall. Making that investment now would be a loss proposition.

 

[JBee]

Hmmm... Seems like you might want to also consider adding some power walls. Especially if you are in an area where you can join a VPP. Then you could not only save the effort bringing the house back up each time, you could be making pretty good $$ during each outage.

Possible side effect, you feel like a king living in a third-world country.

You can't export power in an outage, all grid tie inverters have anti-islanding protection so they don't electrocute the linesman doing repairs.

I'd also not get a powerwall setup, much better value propositions out there that you don't have to wait for.

A CT is a half of the price of the same battery capacity in powerwalls, better off buying an extra CT, that also comes with a free car with all those batteries. That's what I did.

And we've already seen the outlet spot in the Franz video at Petersons.

I'm expecting it has a competitive output level, say 11kW, because then it could just be a bidirectional L2 charger as well, and not add any cost except for the outlets. It will obviously run 230V as well, for those power levels and export markets. Ideally it would be 3 phase, and can operate in frequency control mode as a motor controller as well, so you can plug in a high power trolling motor (winch, ePTO etc) for amphibious mode. Pretty much just software if you have 3 phase.

 

[Frank_Castle]

Money shot in the title had me, but this looks cool!

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