How long will it keep running?

The short version

Tap what you want to keep on during an outage. You'll see how long each size of battery lasts, and how big a surge it has to handle.

Together they average about 30 W (0.7 kWh a day). The biggest startup surge is about 800 W, so pick a station rated for at least that.

  • Your tiny house (13.8 kWh) 16 days
  • 1 kWh power station 28 hours
  • 2 kWh power station 2.4 days
  • 3.6 kWh power station 4.3 days
  • One 5 kWh rack battery 6.0 days

Add a couple of folding panels and a power station refills itself on sunny days, so it can run indefinitely for small loads. See the emergency guide.