First, thanks sooo much for the prompt and most thorough responses. There is much to digest and learn from. Jack, to answer your questions, Pacific Graft & Extortion just says they don't know, but "it could be up to a week". It has to do with needing to inspect each of the unpowered the lines for da...

I live in California and it looks like we may be having scheduled, multi-day power outages this summer due to PG&E's history of poor management/maintenance of our power grid. Therefore, I'm looking at a battery backup and would appreciate any advice from the forum. I plan to recharge the battery dur...