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INTRODUCTION
vices to be charged with 12 VDC car type sockets, i.e. car charger).
• Self-contained wheeled chassis (allows the entire unit to be moved freely like a
portable gas generator).
How can Mobile Power Center help me in an average short term power
outage?
In the event of a power outage, most people are limited to handheld ashlights,
cell-phones and candles. That’s about the extent of your emergency kit. If the
power is off for more than 1 hour people start to feel an impact to their lives.
After an hour, you start to be impacted in other ways, no air conditioning or
heating. Refrigerators are not cooling the food any more. The lights do not even
work in the refrigerator. Microwaves, cordless phones, garage door openers,
alarm clocks, TVs, computers, cell phone chargers, home alarms, sump pumps
in basements etc. are all affected.
If you have a gasoline generator, you could pull it out of the shed or garage, ll
it with gas (if you have any) start it up and then run extension cords into some
devices inside the house. (You cannot use a gas generator indoors because
of carbon monoxide risks!).
Depending on the size of the generator and your fuel storage at home, you may
be able to run many things like a TV, fridge, microwave etc. and do pretty well
except for the noise and fumes and then the lling of the tank with gas every 4-8
hours. Your neighbors on the other hand, will also hear your generator and you
may get visitors or worse.
The fact is, most people do not have a gas generator. Fuel is a terrible thing to
store and goes bad very quickly these days because of the ethanol (alcohol) in
it. Gasoline sitting in a tank unused for months is problematic.
The Mobile Power Center scenario is different in several ways. If you had a Mo-
bile Power Center unit on hand and charged up, you can deploy it easily when
the power goes off. You can move it into the desired position inside your home,
turn it on, plug-in items like a light, cell phone chargers, a TV or a weather radio.
You could even run high current items like a microwave for short periods of time
to cook a quick meal. Keeping your refrigerator running is another option.
Mobile Power Center is an energy storage and energy conversion device. The
unit stores DC electricity in the battery. This electricity is pulled from your regular
wall outlet in AC form and converted by the unit to DC, to be stored in the inter-
nal battery. Mobile Power Center can also store energy from the sun and store it
in the battery.
There would be very little if any noise, no dangerous fumes and no extension
cords running outside the home. Your main concern with Mobile Power Center
