Day 2 of power outage .. temporary Laptop setup Thinkpad X13

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Well, it is now 30+ hours of power outage due to winds / wild fires in this area... Happily we are pretty safe here for the time being... Thankfully was able to keep refrigerator running with Generator.. and charge laptops and all.. Keep having to switch back and forth from Verizon hotspot to my t-mobile phone tethering as internet is fairly unreliable on either atm.

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30 hours would be pushing my solution for sure. I run all my networking on UPS's, and could charge up devices in the car if needed. Also have a Bluetti 716wh power station. But I think that'd all be dead in 30 hours. About 10 years ago we were without power for a few days in a winter storm and I used a harbor freight 1500W inverter hooked up to my jeep (which I would run every hour or two to charge the battery). Stay safe!
 
30 hours would be pushing my solution for sure. I run all my networking on UPS's, and could charge up devices in the car if needed. Also have a Bluetti 716wh power station. But I think that'd all be dead in 30 hours. About 10 years ago we were without power for a few days in a winter storm and I used a harbor freight 1500W inverter hooked up to my jeep (which I would run every hour or two to charge the battery). Stay safe!
On the upside power came back after the two days and hasn't gone back off since, we were much better off than many in this area... still need to figure out options for dealing with this in future as we've lost power at the house for at least 24hrs on one or more occassions every year for the last 4yrs at this point...Including for 48hrs on Thanksgiving a few years ago... good times. (luckily we were not hosting and as such didn't have a bunch of food go bad, but we had to throw some stuff out as didn't have the generator at the time.)
 
Long live solar panels, solar charge controllers, and electric cars with bidirectional charging. With the lightning and ioniq 5 hooked up to the inlets and it can feed the kitchen, a 4 tons air conditioner, the other air conditioner, and everything else like furnaces and lights for a while and if it's too long a bigass natural gas or diesel generator starts depending on the zip code and charges/runs it all again before shutting off until the next time.
 
Long live solar panels, solar charge controllers, and electric cars with bidirectional charging. With the lightning and ioniq 5 hooked up to the inlets and it can feed the kitchen, a 4 tons air conditioner, the other air conditioner, and everything else like furnaces and lights for a while and if it's too long a bigass natural gas or diesel generator starts depending on the zip code and charges/runs it all again before shutting off until the next time.
The IONIC5 has a huge battery no doubt but that'll only get you so far. I lost power for over a week in Florida when Katrina past over Florida as a CAT3 before going over Florida into the Gulf. You need a generator and a source of fuel or a ton of battery capacity attached to your home.
 
The IONIC5 has a huge battery no doubt but that'll only get you so far. I lost power for over a week in Florida when Katrina past over Florida as a CAT3 before going over Florida into the Gulf. You need a generator and a source of fuel or a ton of battery capacity attached to your home.
I hate it but there is no C in IONIQ it's a Q for some reason i am unwilling to understand. The electric trucks have a lot bigger batteries and can do a lot more than 2kw out of their charge ports that the ioniq 5 does with it's 77.4 kwh nmc battery. We have a 48kw natural gas generator too and a 30kw diesel on a trailer and a 480 gallonss and 990 gallons fuel trailers. Part of your problem in FL is the humidity will mold your home faster than it does in AR usually without the air conditioning. That's the other reason we have so much solar, during the peak of the sun I can run one of them off of the sun for a few hours in the Summer on sunny days without all the noise and fumes.
 
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