# Hurricane Matthew

**URL:** <https://community.electricforum.com/t/hurricane-matthew/6405>\
**Category:** Battery & Chargers\
**Created:** [October 8, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/hurricane-matthew/6405 "2016-10-08T19:52:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Old\_Houseboater](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.electricforum.com/old_houseboater/32/544_2.png) [@Old\_Houseboater](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Old_Houseboater)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/hurricane-matthew/6405/1 "2016-10-08T19:52:42Z")

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Fully charged GEM battery with 1200 watt inverter will run Fridge Tv and a lamp for 3 1/2 hours. Brother in law had my 2 GEM’s in his drive. I had my Harbor Freight 1000 watt genny and we were both covered for the 27 hour outage.

Nice having a bank of energy just sitting there waiting.