R1T provided power during bomb cyclone

[usofrob]

Started the infor below before I found this thread. Please help me understand an R1T's true capabilities.

I test drove an R1T this past weekend and was very impressed. Wife loved it and we would have bought one on the spot but 1500w limited outlets stopped all consideration. I know my Lightning was designed for job sites and I don't need that much. E.g. I'll never use the 220v outlets.

What do I run? Home office: computer, starlink, lamp, Rest of the house: cable box, LCD tv, apple tv, fridge, freezer . Outside: drill, vacuum cleaner, power saw. I don't run everything at once. I switch depending on what and where we are. If I'm working on the green house, it's power tools, when we lose power it depends on the room we're using.

Power outage backup for my house it a big deal. I don't want an expensive switching system. I want to use my truck battery (like I do the Lightning).

Not being able to use this huge R1T battery to run a minimum of devices in a power outage is a deal killer for me. Maybe a future redesign? Maybe I'm underestimating it>

A normal 120V plug is limited to 1800W = 15A. The Rivian is limited to 1500W ~= 12.5A. So, it's just a little less than the max of a normal plug.

Generally that limit would only be seen when using too many devices on a single plug or having resistive heating like a space heater or trying to charge another vehicle, or highly impulse devices like your power saw or vacuum cleaner. If you try running all that stuff at the same time through a single plug, you'll probably blow a breaker in your house. It's possible each of those things individually would be fine. The 120V outlet isn't meant as a full house backup, that'd need like at least 10000W and 240V.

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