Power outage? Any advice?

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9:26am, 14 Mar 2024
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I had a change to test my Bluetti power pack last night.
Leccy went of about 8:30pm, and took about 10 mins to conenct the TV, arial booster etc so we could continue watching. Didn't bother with router as we now have real phone reception at home (instead of needing to use wifi).
Power came back about an hour later.
Seems a car drove into a sub-station just up the road. And triggered safety cut outs for miles around.

We didn't need to resort to cold spam! (Not that we've got any. Will corned beef do?)

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We live in a fairly rural environment, normally subject to storm electric outage a few times a year. For 4-6 hour, not days.
And it looks like there may be rolling cuts this winter.

But we are reliant on electricity, like most, for broadband and wifi connection. And also for any mobile phone or SMS messaging, since there's no mobile reception here.

Solar panels are too much for me ... so I've been looking at 240V power banks, typically 500-700 Wh, £500 plus or minus-ish, that w...

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