OT-comments on this generator?

[retired711]

http://www.humless.com/product/1500-series-06kwh/

It sounds like it needs no gasoline; rather, it stores electricity and then releases it when necessary to maintain power? Am I understanding this right? Are there any problems with this kind of design?

 

[RU4Real]

It's a bunch of batteries wired to an inverter.

You could accomplish exactly the same thing with... well, with a bunch of batteries wired to an inverter.

 

[PSU_Nut]

http://www.humless.com/product/1500-series-06kwh/

It sounds like it needs no gasoline; rather, it stores electricity and then releases it when necessary to maintain power? Am I understanding this right? Are there any problems with this kind of design?

Save money. Pick up a $30 inverter and a $80 deep cell marine battery and you have the same thing. Unless you want to run things like a blender, microwave or toaster oven then this set up will be fine. You can power a tv and receivers for hours on a single battery. If you want to run longer ad more batteries.

 

[RU848789]

It's a bunch of batteries wired to an inverter.

You could accomplish exactly the same thing with... well, with a bunch of batteries wired to an inverter.

lol, that was my first thought, too - had to chuckle at them calling them "generators" - these don't "generate" any power, they just store it up and disburse it until the batteries run dry. But if you run out of battery power, the only backup is more batteries (I doubt the solar option supplies enough), unlike a fossil-fuel generator, where you can run most things in a house infinitely without power as long as you have enough fuel.

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

Is it like a perpetual motion machine?

 

[FanuSanu52]

lol, that was my first thought, too - had to chuckle at them calling them "generators" - these don't "generate" any power, they just store it up and disburse it until the batteries run dry. But if you run out of battery power, the only backup is more batteries (I doubt the solar option supplies enough), unlike a fossil-fuel generator, where you can run most things in a house infinitely without power as long as you have enough fuel.

That's the fashionable marketing term for "big battery bank you plug into the wall ahead of time". If you want to get real fancy-like, you can get a solar generator.