What can you plug in to run in case of power outage?

[Jehovasfitness]

Tried a search, but didn't see anything.

Say the power goes out. Is it possible to run a house fridge off the battery in the 4xe?

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[Demonic]

Unfortunately no. There's the same 110v AC plug in the back as on the non-4xe, but it's only rated for about 150 watts if I recall, and is tapped into the 12v battery, not the main hybrid battery.

 

[Jehovasfitness]

Unfortunately no. There's the same 110v AC plug in the back as on the non-4xe, but it's only rated for about 150 watts if I recall, and is tapped into the 12v battery, not the main hybrid battery.

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[Jehovasfitness]

haven't watched yet

 

[Demonic]

I can't watch either right now but it looks like I may stand corrected. The manual said something like 150W for the rear plug so that's what I was going by.

 

[Jehovasfitness]

watched most of it. He ran a tv, toaster, coffee maker and griddle and I'm at the power saw part... not all could run at once but the coffee maker was pulling 1300w and was fine.

edit- he hooked it up to his home's e-panel and ran tons of stuff in the house all at once, minus the AC/furnace, stove, things like that. Though not sure how up to code the setup was lol

 

[DaveN]

How he wired his house made me cringe. Yikes!!! Like you said, I'm no electrician but I'm 99.999% sure that isn't up to code. Yikes!!! That said, it is nice to know you can tap into the 12v Jeep power. I do wonder what the rating for the DC-DC converter is in the 4xe. That will be the controlling factor.

That said, if it were me, I would only want to run a few lights, the refrigerator, and the furnace so I would break those items out and have a sub-panel which is switchable between the main panel and a backup. For critical need, I could pare that down to just the furnace as I can live without everything else and have. Just want to be sure the pipes don't freeze. The furnace and baseboard water circulation pumps only take 300 watts so I should be good for a long outage.

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