Field trial of the 1KW (2.4KWh) power station begins
Dropped off the 1KW (2.4KWh) power station with Essam today to get measurements of how much electricity his food truck uses. He would like to purchase an 2000W 1500Wh power station so he can run lights/fridge/etc. when he's off-grid. https://iallpowers.com/products/allpowers-2000w-portable-power-station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cScqnOofMRQ So be collecting and analysing the measurements from today should say whether this is possible :) It look likes the van uses less than 40W for lighting and another 300W whenever the fridge compressor kicks in. But I will have detailed info from the sqlite3 database when I retrieve the unit at the end of the day :) Only just portable! Safe home again! After a grand day out :) So the unit was deployed at around 13:30 and removed around 16:30 so around three hours of data. Essam had been there since 12:00 or so so the fridge had 90 mins to cool its contents. Here, is the graph for the power drawn during that time: It can be seen that time on ...