@LiFePO4Nerd nailed it with the canary thing. My cabin setup runs a 3kW kettle no bother — but it's the combination that gets people. Kettle plus toaster plus someone plugging in a laptop?
Aye, welcome @LuckyHiker! Always good when lurkers step up. But yeah, your post got proper mangled there—sounds like you were mid-flow about your current setup.
Anyway, emergency backup is exactly...
Brutal mate. The kettle alone pulls what, 3kW? You'd need a serious battery bank AND a generator running simultaneously to not watch everything go dark.
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