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Was waiting to pull the trigger on an F3000 and run a power cord as needed to one of the loads (Gas furnace). At this price it may be advantageous to buy two of these instead of a single F3000 unit. A little more, but easier to move about and I gain a bit more reserve power.
Was waiting to pull the trigger on an F3000 and run a power cord as needed to one of the loads (Gas furnace). At this price it may be advantageous to buy two of these instead of a single F3000 unit. A little more, but easier to move about and I gain a bit more reserve power.
I have this one and love it except that it connects via Bluetooth instead of WiFi.
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Was waiting to pull the trigger on an F3000 and run a power cord as needed to one of the loads (Gas furnace). At this price it may be advantageous to buy two of these instead of a single F3000 unit. A little more, but easier to move about and I gain a bit more reserve power.
I have this one and love it except that it connects via Bluetooth instead of WiFi.
The F2000 will also connect with Wifi as well as bluetooth. Mine is on my home network and I can view it whenever. Worked great during a 3day power outage, and I just left everything in my basement plugged into it as a battery backedup power strip.
Only problem I've had is during the firmware update I think the outlets shut off, and you have to turn them back on. I didn't realize this until I found my freezer fully thawed out and had to throw away a bunch of burgers, so a word of warning there.
Is this a lot of juice? how long can it run a deep freezer?
You have to look at your freezer's power consumption to figure that out. Most likely this will only able to keep a freezer running for 2 days tops unless you have it hooked up to a solar panel to charge it.
Could one use this as a big UPS? Plug this to the wall, plug a relatively small APC or Cyberpower unit to it that then powers computers. Would this work as a continous power source as opposed to occasional use?
edit: nevermind; i found other posts saying it would work as such
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Was waiting to pull the trigger on an F3000 and run a power cord as needed to one of the loads (Gas furnace). At this price it may be advantageous to buy two of these instead of a single F3000 unit. A little more, but easier to move about and I gain a bit more reserve power.
I have this one and love it except that it connects via Bluetooth instead of WiFi.
Only problem I've had is during the firmware update I think the outlets shut off, and you have to turn them back on. I didn't realize this until I found my freezer fully thawed out and had to throw away a bunch of burgers, so a word of warning there.
edit: nevermind; i found other posts saying it would work as such
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