Hey yall. Figured I would post a few pics of mywannabeteslapowerwall. We just went through another power failure (traffic accident this time) and our home built contraption came to our rescue again. It doesn't have to do much. Keep the fridge going for a couple days and keep the entertainment centre powered up so we can watch the Simpsons...I mean the news. 
We ran dedicated lines to those too items so there is no drama when we actually get an outage. They are always connected through the pass through automatic transfer switch so even if we are away for a couple days the fridge will stay on. Most of our outages are weather related, ice, high winds, thunderstorms etc. They are usually only a few hours but a few times have stretched into a day or more. Not good with a refrigerator/freezer full of food. We don't run anything else off it. Our cooking is done on a propane coleman stove and our lights look a lot light Ryobi 18 volt lanterns...mostly because they are. We have a whack full of ryobi batteries for the ryobi tools etc, so far so good.
The unit is a 2 KW sine wave inverter charger unit with a built in 100 amp 12 volt DC 4 stage charger. We limit it to 60 amps as it plugged into a standard household 15 amp 120 volt circuit. It has an automatic pass through transfer switch. We had it for years in our motorhome. Good unit.
The batteries are 2 X 105 amp hour deep cycle AGM's. Seem to be doing well after a couple years. Hope to get 10 out of them.
Its properly fuse with a 250 watt catastrophic holy crap fuse.
The breakered power bar on the left is input power and the one on the right is output power. Simple simple.
I figure it is about a 2 KWH UPS...well probably closer to 1.5 KWH but I figure the cool looking lightning bolts on the front and the name give it an extra 1/2 KWH.
Any way, for us poor folks, this is as close as I'll get to a real power wall. (Hey, it works)
Its tucked away in the corner of the garage. The neighbours get pissed off when the power goes out and they can still see us watching TV. LOL
Cheers.
We ran dedicated lines to those too items so there is no drama when we actually get an outage. They are always connected through the pass through automatic transfer switch so even if we are away for a couple days the fridge will stay on. Most of our outages are weather related, ice, high winds, thunderstorms etc. They are usually only a few hours but a few times have stretched into a day or more. Not good with a refrigerator/freezer full of food. We don't run anything else off it. Our cooking is done on a propane coleman stove and our lights look a lot light Ryobi 18 volt lanterns...mostly because they are. We have a whack full of ryobi batteries for the ryobi tools etc, so far so good. The unit is a 2 KW sine wave inverter charger unit with a built in 100 amp 12 volt DC 4 stage charger. We limit it to 60 amps as it plugged into a standard household 15 amp 120 volt circuit. It has an automatic pass through transfer switch. We had it for years in our motorhome. Good unit.
The batteries are 2 X 105 amp hour deep cycle AGM's. Seem to be doing well after a couple years. Hope to get 10 out of them.
Its properly fuse with a 250 watt catastrophic holy crap fuse.
The breakered power bar on the left is input power and the one on the right is output power. Simple simple.
I figure it is about a 2 KWH UPS...well probably closer to 1.5 KWH but I figure the cool looking lightning bolts on the front and the name give it an extra 1/2 KWH.
Any way, for us poor folks, this is as close as I'll get to a real power wall.
(Hey, it works) Its tucked away in the corner of the garage. The neighbours get pissed off when the power goes out and they can still see us watching TV. LOL
Cheers.
