Uwan just blasted through the Philippines. The eye passed about 100km from where I live. Power went out last night at around 7pm. I had my home batteries full and a couple of cans of gas for my portable generator just in case.

My brother lives next to me and he also has a portable generator. At around 10pm he noticed that the exhaust was glowing red so we shut it down and I loaned him an Ecoflow Delta Max so he could run some fans.

My hybrid inverter can charge from a generator. I’ve only tested this for a few minutes so I thought this would be a good time to try it out. My batteries were still at 75% at 11pm and from experience I knew that was enough to run my house with AC till morning. I wanted to top it off because I wasn’t sure if there would be enough solar in the morning and I didn’t want to wake up to a drained battery. The generator ran for 15minutes before the breaker my installer put in tripped. I tried a couple of more times with reduced load but the breaker kept tripping. That’s when I noticed that the breaker is way too small for my generator. I replaced it with the correct size this morning.

My batteries ran the house from 7pm to 7:30am at which point there was enough solar to charge the batteries and my batteries had 23% left. Power was fortunately restored at 9am.