The battery is still useful because it means most nights I don’t draw down any mains power, so it saves me usage costs. It takes two very overcast days in a row to drain the battery at my normal usage. And most days it charges to full with enough time to spare to feed-in to the grid a bit.
I think in an outage there are issues with feeding into the grid because of safety. But I’m not sure on the details.
But yeah I do wish it would at least be able to keep the fridge running. Even if it required me to manually switch it over.
The battery is still useful because it means most nights I don’t draw down any mains power, so it saves me usage costs. It takes two very overcast days in a row to drain the battery at my normal usage. And most days it charges to full with enough time to spare to feed-in to the grid a bit.
I think in an outage there are issues with feeding into the grid because of safety. But I’m not sure on the details.
But yeah I do wish it would at least be able to keep the fridge running. Even if it required me to manually switch it over.
It really should be able to run your fridge. And yes it may need doing manually. I suggest looking into it. Hope you get it working.