Green Portable Power Supply

Gas powered generator runs for a 1/2 an hour twice a day to charge the batteries

Justin checks the battery levels mid-day. Solar energy trickles in and charges spare battery.

3000 watt inventer and two 12 volt batteries

We typically arrive to frame buildings long before power is hooked-up on the job site. We used to have to run a generator to power our tools and we resented it to no end--for polluting our job site, for making us yell over its racket, for drowning out our music, for having to constantly run over and turn it on or off, or for letting it run and contributing to climate change.

In keeping with who we are, we invested in a Green Portable Power Supply system: a 3000 watt inverter and two 12 volt batteries that are protected in a box and mounted on the truck. To charge the batteries we run the generator for 20 - 30 minutes once or twice a day depending on usage. We plug our extension cords into the inverter, which converts the DC battery power into regular AC power that we use to run our tools.

If we are commuting to a job site that doesn't have power, we can plug the system in at home and charge the batteries with clean, renewable Bullfrog power.