Backup by Biolite Review: A Cool Idea
Source: Wired ·
Backup by BioLite is designed to power your fridge when the grid goes down. It works, but protecting your ice cream doesn’t come cheap.
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Every part of a power outage is always a massive nuisance, but nothing is quite as aggravating as losing power to your refrigerator and the resultant spoilage of everything inside it. Homes with a whole-house battery backup can avoid this headache, but the cost for a system like a Tesla Powerwall can easily hit $15,000 after installation. It takes an awful lot of melted ice cream for those numbers to balance out. BioLite—known for its range of lighting and portable power solutions—is on the cusp of launching an alternative to whole-house batteries. Backup by BioLite is a modular battery system designed specifically with the fridge in mind, offering long-term emergency power at a fraction of the cost of more complex systems and which homeowners can install themselves. I installed it in my home and found it a capable (if limited) way to get a little extra peace of mind. Backup by BioLite is hardly a difficult concept to grasp. The massive battery—offering 1526 watt-hours of power with…
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