Prius Power!

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  1. El Dobro

    El Dobro A Member

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    Well, it's Prius to the rescue. There's no power in the neighborhood again, so I have my power inverter hooked up to the 12V battery to keep the food refrigerated. Yea! :D
     
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    how power your power inverter? I am interested to do it.

    V/r

    Khoi Nguyen
     
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    What size inverter do you have El Dobro? H
     
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    It's 1500W, but it never goes that high.
     
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    Thanks,H
     
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    well done!(y)
     
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    I hope you lock your Prius when it's in READY mode and you are not with it.
     
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    BTW - here's a video I did on how you can get totally portable power (without a Prius) using an inverter and portable jump starter. Not nearly as much power as the Prius can provide, but plenty for small items like a lamp, radio, laptop / iphone charger, etc. :

     
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    Can you lock it from the outside when in ready mode?
    I recall trying to do that on a recent "0"F morning where I went outside and started the PIP (went to ready mode then put defroster on at 68F which caused the ICE to instantly start up) and IIRC I was unable to lock it using the fob from outside the car while it was in ready mode...
     
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    I faced the same inconvenience not to long ago.....
     
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    I haven't tried it yet, but can you manually press lock on the inside of the door and then close the door?

    Or does that not work?
     
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  13. El Dobro

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    If you try to manually lock the doors, they will still unlock.
     
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    What I may try next time is to leave one of the fobs in the car and then try to lock it.
     
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    You have to lock it with the mechanical key - that's what I did when I had my C in Ready for 54 hours straight, powering my house after Sandy in 2012.
     
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    Agree, I tried the same situation, the hard key......
     
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    Interesting. How many gallons of gas did it use that situation? Just curious.
     
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    MEDIAHOUND, there are a lot of threads on this here. Try searching "using PiP as a generator".
     
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    Less than two gallons, but I was only running a very small inverter to bring up my steam heat, a couple of lights, and the internet. I can't post a link from here but if you search posts under my user name in November 2012 there's a detailed write up.
     
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    Yep! Just use the mechanical(emergency) key
     
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