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I have 4 freezers running, I have tried to get my wife to reduce frozen food, without any success. Colvid did not help as she now feels we should have a large stock of food, our back ground use of electric is around the 350 watt mark on average, which is just a little too high to last from sunset to 1 am when we get cheap off peak electric from our 3.2 kWh battery.
The battery hits the 10% around 11 pm, so we start using electric at peak rate, three freezers are close together, so if at 9 pm a timer turned them off until 1 am it would mean 24 hours power either at low rate or using solar.
It seems tempting as have spare plug in timers, but would it cause damage? Two freezers are inverter drives, and one old chest freezer. It was suggested by brother-in-law, but I am not sure worth doing?
The battery hits the 10% around 11 pm, so we start using electric at peak rate, three freezers are close together, so if at 9 pm a timer turned them off until 1 am it would mean 24 hours power either at low rate or using solar.
It seems tempting as have spare plug in timers, but would it cause damage? Two freezers are inverter drives, and one old chest freezer. It was suggested by brother-in-law, but I am not sure worth doing?