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Old 09-09-2024, 08:31 PM   #123 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
My brother lost power for a couple days in a big windstorm a few months back. He kept his fridge powered off of his F150s factory 400 watt power inverter. He didn't much enjoy his 2 days so he went out and bought a 7000 watt inverter generator then self installed a disconnect on his panel and labeled all the "essential" breakers in the box and installed a soft start oh his central AC along with installing a smaller portable AC in his room. Also switched to 5g internet service as the cable moden went down. I figured thar would guarantee he would never lose line power again but sure enough a month ago it went down for a few more days and everything worked as planned.
Sounds like a good plan.

I wouldn't switch to slower and more expensive 5G internet because a. I lost cell coverage when the ice storm took out power all around, and b. if I have cell coverage, I can set my phone as a hotspot.

True internet resiliency is StarLink. Plus, it's portable.
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