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Jackery announces ‘world’s slimmest’ fridge battery
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A battery that’ll keep food from perishing during a power outage.
A battery that’ll keep food from perishing during a power outage.
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Jackery is jumping on the fridge-battery trend with what it says is the “world’s slimmest.” FridgeGuard also looks nice; a break from power stations that tend to look more at home at a job site than the kitchen or living room.
Measuring just 2.63 inches (67mm) thick, the Jackery FridgeGuard power station is meant to be tucked on top of, beside, or behind your refrigerator and automatically spring to life with a 10ms UPS switchover during a power outage. Its modest 800W of AC output (1600W peak) and 1kWh LFP battery will keep the typical US fridge / freezer combo running for about 10 hours — or double that if you add a 1kWh expansion battery. Jackery says its cooling fans operate at 40dB, or about as loud as a standard fridge.
While designed for fridges, there’s nothing preventing you from installing it in a bedroom to keep a CPAP breathing machine operational during a blackout, or in the living room to life-saving devices running like a game console and TV running until grid-power returns.