Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
Texas Home Backup Power Calculator
A Texas-focused calculator estimates how long backup power options can run selected household appliances and helps produce a printable outage plan.
- For
- Texas households planning for power outages
- Worth noticing
- Fridge and freezer defaults use eight operating hours per day, citing Virginia Tech’s one-third rule.
Field notes
Users can edit appliance wattage, daily hours, quantity, and motor-start demand; fridge and freezer defaults assume eight operating hours out of 24, citing Virginia Tech’s one-third rule. Runtime uses watt-hours, a user-adjustable usable-capacity percentage, and an 85% conversion-loss assumption; solar recharging is excluded. The page also describes Base Power’s Texas membership pricing, but says Base does not publish a continuous kW rating in the reviewed materials, so the table cannot confirm that a customer’s load will fit.
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