Power station guides
Runtime and sizing for the appliances people ask about most. Every number comes from the same math as the calculator.
- CPAP: Nights of CPAP use by station size, with and without the humidifier.
- Refrigerator: Runtime for a full-size fridge and why surge matters.
- Sump pump: Pumping hours and the output you need to start the motor.
- Space heater: Minutes on high and low, and warmer options that last.
- Window AC: Hours of cooling and how to stretch a hot night.
- Microwave: Why output matters more than capacity, and minutes of cooking.
- Chest freezer: Days of runtime, and how long a closed freezer stays frozen.
- TV: Hours of TV by screen size and station.
- Phone and laptop charges: How many full charges each station size gives.
- Wi-Fi router: Keeping the internet up through an outage.
- Electric car: Why a power station adds only a few miles.
- Solar charging: Panel watts to recharge a station in a day.
- Sizing a station: Capacity, output, losses and surge, step by step.