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for Your Needs
Tell us what you want to power – we'll handle the rest.
Add your appliances and we'll calculate the wattage, startup surge, and daily energy you need, then rank every compatible power station with realistic runtime estimates so you can choose with confidence.
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Continuous watts — how much your appliances draw while running. Think width of the pipe: the station's output rating has to cover it, or it shuts off.
Startup surge — the short spike when a motor kicks on (fridges, freezers, sump pumps). Stations have a separate surge rating for exactly this.
Watt-hours (Wh) — the size of the tank. A 1,152 Wh battery runs a 100 W load for roughly 10 hours after conversion losses. More Wh = more hours.
How accurate is this? Wattages are typical manufacturer values and compressors are billed at actual running time, but batteries age, temperature bites, and duty cycles vary — treat every estimate, including the sims, as roughly ±15%.
Why don't the hour sliders change the runtime? The headline runtime assumes everything is on at once — worst case. The sliders set how many hours a day you use each appliance, which drives Energy/Day, days of backup on every station card, the outage sims, and whether solar can sustain you.
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What are you running?
If the power went out:
~1.6 hrs
Plan for at least 2× the runtime you need and check each station's "medical gear alone" line. For life-critical devices, register with HHS emPOWER and your utility's priority list, and keep the FDA outage plan handy. Devices can reset to defaults when power returns.
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Power stations that fit your load
Ranked by lifetime value among models that fit your 595 W load. Runtime assumes 85% efficiency.