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 55 W (1.3 kWh a day). The biggest startup surge is about 100 W, so pick a station rated for at least that.

  • Your cabin (4.6 kWh) 3.0 days
  • 1 kWh power station 15 hours
  • 2 kWh power station 31 hours
  • 3.6 kWh power station 2.3 days
  • One 5 kWh rack battery 3.3 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.