Whole Home Backup Power: An Affordable Strategy v3

The evening of Tuesday, August 20th was the third time I’ve delivered my presentation on An Affordable Approach to Whole Home Backup Power. This time it was to  a meeting of the members of the Woodland Heights Civic Association. The meeting was held in the library at Travis Elementary School, which is quite literally across the street from our home.

The meeting was well attended. Actually, better than I was expecting. The WHCA business portion of the meeting went a little longer than expected, so my presentation was delivered swiftly. Even so, the presentation seemed to be well received.

This presentation is specifically for those who, for whatever reason, don’t want to invest the $15K necessary for an installed standby generator from the likes of Briggs & Stratton, Cummins, Generac or Kohler.

It’s curious that this was exactly one year from the date of the highest power usage I’ve tracked by our home, which is a data point included in the presentation.

Monitoring how much power we use informs our choice of backup generator. On this day of peak usage, in the mid-summer heat, the maximum load is 5kW. That’s well within scope for the current crop of 9 kW inverters, like our Predator 9500.

Some people expressed interest in the slide deck that I use, which keeps evolving over time. Here’s a Dropbox link to the current set of 32 slides.

I’ve been invited to give this presentation to the Monte Beach Civic Club on Thursday, September 12th.