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This is the single most common question people ask before buying a portable power station for home backup. The answer is straightforward once you understand how refrigerators actually draw power, but the marketing from power station brands makes it confusing on purpose. Most brands advertise runtime in watt-hours and leave you to figure out the rest. A 1,000Wh station “powers a fridge for up to 16 hours” according to some product pages. In reality, you’ll likely get 8-12 hours from that same unit. The gap comes from three factors that marketing glosses over. ...

When the power goes out, the clock starts ticking on your fridge, your internet, and your sanity. A portable power station gives you a buffer. Not days of whole-home power like a standby generator, but enough to keep essentials running until the grid comes back. The problem is that the market has exploded. There are now dozens of options between €500 and €3,000, and the spec sheets all blur together after a while. Watt-hours, surge watts, MPPT charging, LFP vs NMC batteries. It gets overwhelming fast. ...