Thread: Milwaukee power supply

Originally Posted by johntins

You know what they say about this place; if you don't like the weather wait a few hours and it will change...

We only need four days of reasonable weather, preferably without bushfires, before we get on the boat to Tasmania. Surely Melbourne could manage that?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

We only need four days of reasonable weather, preferably without bushfires, before we get on the boat to Tasmania. Surely Melbourne could manage that?

Well .... define "reasonable".

Joking aside, today was beautiful.

So, the Aus Open players copped bushfire smoke, a dust storm, a mud storm (which is still clogging the gutters here and has stained everything orange), 43C temperatures plus extreme humidity, torrential rain and heat yesterday and then ... today.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Back to the original post and video - it's basically a neatly put together inverter with lithium battery packs - wonder what sort of price point it will have. Guessing bloody expensive. Can run the 55" TV for 7 hours on 1 battery - if we said around 150 watts for the telly, then around 1000 watt hours or equivalent to around an 80Ah Lithium battery.

Given it can start a circular saw, etc, I'm guessing the inverter specs are quite high. While it could replace a small genset on a site, I bet with 2 batteries it will cost an order of magnitude more than said generator.

Still, nice product, they'll sell them no dramas. Will be interesting to see what they end up costing here in Aus if/when they make it. Based on a 5Ah Milwaukee battery costing around $130 here, I would expect each of the batteries in this thing to be about $2K each - plus the inverter.

Will see.

From what I can tell, it's a lot smaller capacity than the largest of the Goal Zero packs:

Goal Zero Australia | Yeti 3000 v2

Originally Posted by Arapiles

From what I can tell, it's a lot smaller capacity than the largest of the Goal Zero packs:

Goal Zero Australia | Yeti 3000 v2

Thanks - was thinking it was going to be similar or even larger but I think you’re right.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

We only need four days of reasonable weather, preferably without bushfires, before we get on the boat to Tasmania. Surely Melbourne could manage that?

18 today with a cold blustery southerly wind - how’s that?

Think we will have some decent weather again around the weekend by the looks of it - 30 ish both days. When do you get here?

Originally Posted by Arapiles

From what I can tell, it's a lot smaller capacity than the largest of the Goal Zero packs:

Goal Zero Australia | Yeti 3000 v2

I would hope that the price is similarly smaller. I doubt that Milwaukee is after that market.

And there are these. In the US at least.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Victoria has two seasons. Freezeyourarseoff and Bushfire.

Maybe so, but at least we are one state, not a Balkan like conglomeration of separate parochial regions incorporating the South East Qld Socialist Republic, Central Qld, Western Qld, North Qld, Far Nth Qld and Far, Far Away even further Nth Qld.

Deano