Backup Power

I hated carrying my generator out to test it so I would put it off. I finally put wheels on it and now it rolls out e-z-p-z.

My Honda can deliver 1600 watts continuous and can peak to 2000. Not a ton of power.

I do however have a number of 3KW inverters. One of them with a 1600 watt hour battery pack can feed the power transfer panel.

The “48” volt battery can be charged at 500, 1000 or 1500 watts from the Honda so it is like having a 3000 watt generator at 50% duty cycle. We do not average anything like that here. More like 500 or 600 watts per hour. When the generator runs out of gas the batteries let me give the generator some time to cool before I pour gas into it.

Generator, wheels, inverter, battery pack, 1000 watt charger

Inverter plugs into xfer panel

The ejector pump has its own 3KW inverter and 960 Watt battery. The battery is limited to charging at 150 watts so the load on the main generator setup is limited to that. The pump runs 3 seconds and then the charger runs about 40 seconds to recharge the loss.