Emergency Battery Backup - EV?

[Arkayology]

I recently purchased an EV and found that I have a the ability to plug a household appliance into the car using a vehicle to load adaptor. Naturally, I thought this would be useful for my reef during a power outage. Have you used your EV to power anything on your reef before? What did you power and for how long? This is not my main emergency power plan, but it is nice to have the option in an emergency.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Unfortunately, my car does not allow that. I would have to sit in it to use its battery that way.

 

[commod0re]

I don't have an EV so I haven't actually done this but V2H/V2L are pretty cool. What you can power and for how long depends mainly on both the size of the battery pack in your EV and how much current the stuff you would have running off of it draws over time, but also some other details as well. Depending on your exact power demands and the size of your EV battery it could potentially power the whole thing and more for multiple days

 

[Subsea]

I recently purchased an EV and found that I have a the ability to plug a household appliance into the car using a vehicle to load adaptor. Naturally, I thought this would be useful for my reef during a power outage. Have you used your EV to power anything on your reef before? What did you power and for how long? This is not my main emergency power plan, but it is nice to have the option in an emergency.

@vlangel
Has a power adapter she runs from car battery. It required car to run to maintain all circuits on reef tank including heater when a snowstorm knocked off power for a week.