 My name is Chris Jacobson. I'm the creator of Balejo Historic Home Support and today we're gonna talk about backup power Especially during maybe the wildfire season when when PG knee turns your power off How much electricity would I need to have in a backup power system? so you know that's probably one of the biggest questions people have when they when they think about this and and It is a little confusing because there's some math involved and you don't really know like how much you can't see electricity How much of it am I using right like if it was water you'd be able to look at it No one knows how much power So one of the first things we're going to do is we're going to talk about the heat and motion rule So if you're trying to do something like boil water or make coffee or use a toaster or a microwave or an air conditioner Or a refrigerator you're making things hot or you're making things cold You're using a lot of electricity We're in a crisis like PG knee turns your power off try to boil your water on a stove You know that that'll save the amount of electricity that you can get from these things Unfortunately, you probably can't not have your refrigerator running But we'll talk about that too Okay, so there's a simple math formula. Don't glaze over. It's volts times amps equals watts We'll go into that as we run through these videos If you look at the back of an appliance, it'll always tell you the volts and the amps It's not necessarily always going to tell you the watts But usually these things are rated at that and just to give you an idea Maybe a small little refrigerator to have in your basement to hold some beer in that's maybe 400 watts, right? Coffee maker coffee maker could be around 800 watts. You want a toaster We don't even think of it as a really big appliance. It's just toast and bread, but that's probably close to 1200 watts An air conditioner or a microwave is going to be you know significantly more than that even a small one But a small microwave might be 1100 watts Refrigerator, let's do volts times amps equals watts a refrigerator is probably It's 115 volts because you plug it into the wall. We have also any current It's maybe running on six or seven amps and that's about 750 watts. So You know a bigger refrigerator is gonna be pushing a lot more a lot more power through it Okay, so We're gonna go into each of these things and we're gonna go into what each of these things is, you know How much draw how much electrical current? So join us for the next video We're gonna start talking about how to use a power station and then we're gonna get on to the power inverter Which turns basically your car battery Into a generator the motor in your car and the battery into a generator. Okay. See you soon