A winter of outage schedules is easier if you prepare in advance. Here is a step-by-step plan for a private house, from the list of critical appliances to what to do when the power goes.
Step 1. List your critical loads
Walk through the house and write down what you cannot do without: boiler and circulation pump, well pump, fridge, router, lighting, phone charging. Next to each, note the power from its label.
Step 2. Put them on a separate line
Critical appliances should be wired to a separate group of breakers fed by the inverter. Then during an outage the battery is not drained by the water heater, oven or air conditioner.
Step 3. Check the boiler
Gas boilers with electronics are sensitive to voltage quality. An inverter with a pure sine wave solves this. If your boiler struggled to restart after outages, check it before the frosts.
Step 4. Keep connected
- Power the router and fibre terminal from the backup line.
- Keep a charged power bank for phones in case of a long blackout.
- Save emergency and neighbours' numbers offline.
Step 5. Plan energy for the night
By day the plant charges the battery; at night the house runs on it. A simple plan: do laundry and cooking in sunny hours and keep only essentials on in the evening. Smartphone monitoring shows how much energy is left.
Step 6. A generator as insurance
For multi-day outages, a generator connected to the hybrid inverter helps. It starts only when the battery is low and charges it, so it uses far less fuel.
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