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My recently installed Powerwall 3 will only power my home for a few hours. If I don't stop HVAC and car charging, I may be out of power before I even wake up in

My recently installed Powerwall 3 will only power my home for a few hours. If I don't stop HVAC and car charging, I may be out of power before I even wake up in the morning. What I really want is my milk not to spoil (keep my family fed, not opening the fridge is defeating the purpose) and to charge devices if the outage will last more than half a day. Pila is WAY cheaper and more targeted. I considered buying a Jackery Explorer 1000 and pushing my refrigerator out to plug it in during and outage but that seemed ridiculous. https://www.jackery.com/products/explorer-1000-portable-power-station https://www.jackery.com/products/explorer-1000-portable-powe... EDIT: Other people are mentioning arbitrage, which is also pointless for me. My Powerwall 3 will save me a few hundred dollars a year if I set it send power to the grid AND during that time I lose backup protection.

parl_match 2y ago
if your concern is keeping your family fed, consider the last time you had an extended outage. then run the numbers if it was recent, such as living in certain parts of texas, you should be keeping large amounts of stable water for each person for at least a week (gallon jugs + water filter pens), fuel/burner/pot, rice/beans/etc in a water sealed emergency kit if it was a long time ago, you should be keeping enough water, vitamins, and high density calorie bricks for 96 hours it'd be nice to have fresh food, but it's way more practical and reliable to have sustenance stored in a closet somewhere for a family of four, premade emergency kits for 7 days will run you about $150, and youll need about 25 gallons of water - <$25 $175 or a $1000 battery + $25 for water. idk choice is easy