What Can a 1000Wh Power Station Run?
The box says 1000Wh. What you want to know is whether that’s a night with the fridge still cold, or two hours and a flat battery. Here’s the honest version…
The box says 1000Wh. What you want to know is whether that’s a night with the fridge still cold, or two hours and a flat battery. Here’s the honest version…
You’ve decided to install solar. You’ve picked your system type. You’ve chosen your BLUETTI (or comparable) equipment. And now your installer starts throwing around terms like load audit, JPS interconnection,…
Ask a BLUETTI owner in Jamaica what they want to know, and you’ll usually hear one of two questions. During an outage it’s “Will this last until JPS comes back?”…
You open the freezer the morning after an outage and you already know. The bags have gone soft, there’s water pooling at the bottom, and a week’s worth of meat…
The storm is two days out. You go to the cupboard for the power station you bought after the last one, and it’s sitting at 31% with the solar cable…
Your neighbour just installed solar without paperwork you saw. Your installer’s talking about JPS interconnection forms. Someone on Facebook said you need OUR approval too. Google gives you contradictory answers…
A hurricane warning is on the radio, JPS power has already gone, and the family is deciding where to put the backup power. Everyone has heard the warnings about running…
Day two of the outage. The fridge is plugged in and running, the sun is finally out, and you’re standing there with a solar panel wondering whether you have to…
The power’s gone again. You’re standing in the kitchen with a torch, looking at the box that says 2,048Wh, trying to work out whether the fridge survives until morning. Learning…
Pull out your last JPS bill and look at the rate per kilowatt-hour. Then look at how many hours of strong sun fall on your roof in an average Jamaican…