Generac 6852 Transfer Switch installed (to power my house from the Pro Power 240V plug)

[Lightning Rod]

Has anyone here ever test ran you home using your Lightning for any prolonged period of time?

I think I'm going to run our home for a full 24 hours one day next weekend with the Lightning, just to see what percentage of battery it will use while the AC will be running (it's supposed to be 88 degrees). We will run the whole house as just a normal day. I'm figuring about 10 percent per day, but we will see.

I will report my findings.

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[Runaway Tractor]

Has anyone here ever test ran you home using your Lightning for any prolonged period of time?

The longest I've needed to thus far was about 6hrs. It was really nice not having to hear the portable generator screaming the whole time!

 

[BhamDCam]

Has anyone here ever test ran you home using your Lightning for any prolonged period of time?

Longest I’ve used it was about 9 hours. Used 7%. Happened during the winter so no AC usage needed.

 

[Maquis]

Has anyone here ever test ran you home using your Lightning for any prolonged period of time?

I think I'm going to run our home for a full 24 hours one day next weekend with the Lightning, just to see what percentage of battery it will use while the AC will be running (it's supposed to be 88 degrees). We will run the whole house as just a normal day. I'm figuring about 10 percent per day, but we will see.

I will report my findings.

8 hours overnight. No AC. Freezer and 2 fridges were the main loads. 5%.

 

[K6CCC]

I could wish for that long. I fully admit that my electrical consumption is well above average - for a variety of reasons. I just looked, yesterday my total consumption for the day was 80.35 KWH and my solar generated 40.25 KWH. It's pretty hot and did not cool off overnight, so a fairly large amount of AC load.

 

[chl]

After getting it hooked up I ran on the Lightning for about 3 hours as a test.

No AC and at night so less things powered on - was not using microwave or coffee pot or toaster. Biggest current draw was probably the refrigerator.

Used under 2kW for 3 hrs, so about 6kWh or under 8% of the 80% charge on my SR 98kWh battery.

I keep hoping for an outage so I can run it for a longer time.

If we get a hurricane remnant visiting from the south, I'd probably charge up to 90% the day before it arrives just in case.

Worst/longest outage we've had here in Northern Virginia when I had a generator was a little over 3 days. It was after a derecho came through in June 2012.

Some people around here had no power for over a week.
I ran a gas generator for 9 hours at a time during the day which was about the time on one fill up of 8 gals of gasoline.

I ran a cord to my neighbor's refrigerator, a retired Army Col. - they had just gone to the PX and had a lot of food they would have lost.

One neighbor's basement flooded because their backup battery on their sump pump ran out - they were too far away (and across the street) to run a cord or I would have.

What fun!

 

[Runaway Tractor]

It was after a derecho came through in June 2012.

At the time I was a Pepco customer. Two weeks. It was hell. My friend's apartment building flooded because it got so hot in the lobby the fire sprinklers popped.

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