It's a little after midnight here in the Bay Area. I was about to head to bed when !BOOM! - Power went out.
"OK BOYS... THIS IS WHAT WE TRAINED FOR!!!!"
... but seriously, I don't really even stress about the power being out, especially when everyone else is asleep, unless it's down for a few hours... which RARELY happens.
For my PC (that I'm typing on now) I have an old-school UPS with an extra big lead-acid battery replacement. I plugged in my USB / WIFI adapter and turned on the hotspot on my phone... and I'm back in action.
PG&E shows the outage.... TINY area, only about 60 customers impacted:
Again, not a big deal, but then I see this:
Ugh, that's 6 hours from now.
The interwebs say that food in fridge can go about 4 hours without power. The "woohoo, I get to use my AC200P" part of me is ready for action.
... the lazy part of me is like: "Meh, not worth the trouble since the food will be fine until power is back up".
Well, even as I type, I'm realizing I should play it safe and also really test things out and go plug in my solar unit.
So, I did it. I dragged the unit over, plugged in my fridge and... BUSINESS!
Peak startup watts: 555
Avg. running watts: 87
So, basically it will run my fridge for quite a long time!