What size power station do you need?
Pick what you want to keep running in an outage and for how long. You get the battery size, the power and the surge you need, and which models fit, with no brand pushing you up a size.
Not sure whether you need a station, a generator or a home battery? Start here.
1. Start from a common setup (optional)
2. What do you need to run?
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The watts are on the label or the power brick. For anything with a motor (pump, compressor), the start-up surge can be 2 to 3 times that.
3. How long and how charged?
Common questions
- Battery backup for a CPAP
- Power station for a sump pump
- How long a power station runs a fridge
- Power station for a well pump
- Work from home in an outage
- Power station for a chest freezer
- Power station for a window AC
- Can a power station run central AC?
- Power station for a gas furnace blower
- Can a power station run a space heater?
- Microwave, kettle and coffee maker on a power station
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Appliance figures are typical values, not your exact model: the label on yours wins. The sums assume 85% of a battery's rated capacity reaches your outlets, which is conservative for the LFP stations on this site. How the numbers work.