Where do I find directions for using an inverter on my Prius to power my home in an emergency?

Proud Left Wing Intellectual · 25 Jun 2010, 10:39 am

I saw an article on the internet about someone who did this, but I cannot find instructions on how to do this to my car...any help?

tron.quito · 25 Jun 2010, 10:42 am

You can't. I have a 2,000 watt invertor on my Mobile Home that is hooked up to a battery bank of THREE BATTERIES and I still can't run something with a compressor like an Air Conditioner or a large motor EVEN WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING... CAR Invertors are not usable for running a house.

The houses that use invertors to provide power are running on either 24 VOLTS or, preferably 48 VOLTS.. and that means some BIG BATTERIES.

mrvadeboncoeur · 25 Jun 2010, 10:45 am

You are probably referring to this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/au...s/02POWER.html

Or one of many interviews with John Sweeney in Harvard, MA, after the big ice storm in Dec. 2008, such as: http://blog.toyota.com/2009/01/its-a...generator.html and http://wbztv.com/icestorm08/prius.ch....2.894690.html

and another owner during the same storm: http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=25346

Or maybe this mention in a US News and World Report article: http://www.usnews.com/articles/busin...our-house.html

Or this mention in Wired magazine: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/howtoride.html

For more info on how to use a Prius as a backup generator/UPS for home use, see:

http://priups.com/

http://priuschat.com/forums/attachme...k_up_power.pdf

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/priups.html

You can also find more information in the message archives of the Prius_Technical_Stuff yahoogroup: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/...chnical_Stuff/

and you can probably find similar information in one of the technical forums off of priuschat.com .

Where do I find directions for using an inverter on my Prius to power my home in an emergency?

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