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Backup by Biolite Review: A Cool Idea

Buy NowMultiple Buying Options Available$1,999 at Biolite (Single Unit)$3,499 at Biolite (Double Unit)Save this storySave this storyRating:7/10Open rating explainerWIREDSeamless failover when power cuts out. Discreet; disappears almost completely behind your fridge. Reasonably mobile; can conceivably be used for other needs in a pinch.TIREDScheduling system is very basic. No logging system to speak of. Installation is tougher than it seems. (Learn from my mistakes!) Very costly; TOU rate-shifting benefits are minimal.

立即购买，多种购买选项可选：Biolite 单机版 1,999 美元，双机版 3,499 美元。保存此文章。评分：7/10。WIRED 评价：断电时无缝切换。隐蔽性好，几乎完全隐藏在冰箱后。便携性尚可，紧急情况下可用于其他需求。缺点：调度系统非常基础，没有日志记录系统。安装难度比预想的要大（请吸取我的教训！）。价格昂贵，且利用分时电价（TOU）节省成本的收益微乎其微。

Every part of a power outage is always a massive nuisance, but nothing is quite as aggravating as losing power to your refrigerator and the resultant spoilage of everything inside it.

停电的每一个环节总是令人极其烦恼，但最让人恼火的莫过于冰箱断电，导致里面所有的食物变质。

Homes with a whole-house battery backup can avoid this headache, but the cost for a system like a Tesla Powerwall can easily hit $15,000 after installation. It takes an awful lot of melted ice cream for those numbers to balance out.

拥有全屋电池备份系统的家庭可以避免这种头疼的问题，但像 Tesla Powerwall 这样的系统，安装后的成本很容易达到 15,000 美元。要抵消这笔费用，得融化掉多少冰淇淋才够啊。

BioLite—known for its range of lighting and portable power solutions—is on the cusp of launching an alternative to whole-house batteries. Backup by BioLite is a modular battery system designed specifically with the fridge in mind, offering long-term emergency power at a fraction of the cost of more complex systems and which homeowners can install themselves. I installed it in my home and found it a capable (if limited) way to get a little extra peace of mind.

BioLite 以其一系列照明和便携式电源解决方案而闻名，目前正准备推出一种全屋电池的替代方案。Backup by BioLite 是一款专门为冰箱设计的模块化电池系统，它以比复杂系统低得多的成本提供长期应急电源，且房主可以自行安装。我在家里安装了它，发现这是一种能够（尽管有限）带来额外安心感的方法。

Smart Cells Backup by BioLite is hardly a difficult concept to grasp. The massive battery—offering 1526 watt-hours of power with a rated output of 1800 watts (and supporting peak surges up to 3000 watts)—mounts on the wall behind your refrigerator, or it can simply sit on top of it. The power pack measures 29 inches high by 13 inches wide, and a single unit weighs a hefty 40 pounds. No special wiring is required. You simply plug the Backup into a standard 120-volt outlet, then plug your refrigerator into the Backup.

智能电池单元 Backup by BioLite 的概念并不难理解。这个巨大的电池提供 1526 瓦时的电量，额定输出功率为 1800 瓦（支持高达 3000 瓦的峰值浪涌），可以安装在冰箱后面的墙上，或者直接放在冰箱顶部。该电源组高 29 英寸，宽 13 英寸，单台重量高达 40 磅。无需特殊布线，只需将 Backup 插入标准的 120 伏插座，然后将冰箱插入 Backup 即可。

Want more power? Backup’s Core unit can be daisy-chained to a Backup Extend add-on device, an identically sized (but slightly lighter) unit that doubles the power capacity to 3072 Wh.

想要更多电量？Backup 的核心单元可以与 Backup Extend 附加设备串联，这是一个尺寸相同（但稍轻）的单元，可将电量翻倍至 3072 瓦时。

Depending on your refrigerator, the full “Backup Complete” solution, with two cells, can provide up to 60 hours of running time if the grid goes down. If that’s not enough, additional Backup Extend devices can be added in series, with a total maximum capacity of 10.5 KWh. (Though, at that point, you may as well spring for a whole-house solution.)

根据冰箱的不同，包含两个电池单元的完整“Backup Complete”解决方案在电网断电时可提供长达 60 小时的运行时间。如果这还不够，还可以串联额外的 Backup Extend 设备，总最大容量可达 10.5 千瓦时。（不过，到了那个地步，你还不如直接选择全屋解决方案。）

DIY Time One of the biggest selling points of Backup by BioLite is that you can install it yourself, with no electrician. I’ve got no trouble wielding a drill, so I undertook the effort to see if BioLite’s promise of a 30-minute install would pan out. I tested Backup Complete, with two Backup batteries situated side by side.

DIY 时间 Backup by BioLite 的最大卖点之一就是你可以自行安装，无需电工。我使用电钻毫无压力，所以我决定尝试一下，看看 BioLite 承诺的 30 分钟安装是否属实。我测试了 Backup Complete，将两块 Backup 电池并排安装。

The process seems straightforward (and is enhanced by a helpful printed manual), but I quickly learned that my refrigerator’s location—tucked into an alcove—would complicate things because of the limited space in which to work. BioLite suggests having an extra pair of hands to hoist the heavy battery packs into place, but there was simply no room for my wife to squeeze into the alcove to help with any of the process. I managed on my own, but I expect this will present a challenge for some.

安装过程看起来很简单（随附的印刷手册很有帮助），但我很快发现，我的冰箱位于一个凹槽内，有限的操作空间让事情变得复杂。BioLite 建议找人帮忙抬起沉重的电池组，但我妻子根本没有空间挤进凹槽来帮忙。我最终独自完成了安装，但我预计这对某些人来说会是一个挑战。

The batteries mount to metal brackets, and BioLite provides a template to help you position them properly and ensure they are level. It’s essential that the two batteries in a Backup Complete arrangement be located at a specific distance from one another, as the cable that connects the two is limited in length.

电池安装在金属支架上，BioLite 提供了一个模板来帮助你准确定位并确保它们水平。在 Backup Complete 配置中，两块电池必须保持特定的距离，这一点至关重要，因为连接两者的电缆长度有限。

I dutifully chose a location for the template, ensuring that the batteries—once attached to the wall—would not block access to the electrical outlet. Since my outlet is placed 3 feet off the ground, that meant hanging the batteries high, with the tops level with my eyeline.

我认真地为模板选好了位置，确保电池安装在墙上后不会挡住电源插座。由于我的插座离地 3 英尺，这意味着电池必须挂得很高，顶部与我的视线齐平。

Photograph: Christopher Null BioLite provides all the hardware you need to mount the units in drywall, including anchors and screws. I tried to find a stud to anchor at least one of the screws, but found none in the spots where I needed them. Oddly, I had to use my own drywall anchors for some of the screws, as BioLite’s screw-in style anchors refused to engage and drive into the wall. (I don’t blame BioLite for this but rather some peculiarity with how that section of wall was constructed.)

摄影：Christopher Null BioLite 提供了将设备安装在干墙上所需的所有硬件，包括锚栓和螺丝。我试图找到一个龙骨来固定至少一颗螺丝，但在我需要的位置没找到。奇怪的是，我不得不使用自己的干墙锚栓来固定部分螺丝，因为 BioLite 的旋入式锚栓无法嵌入墙体。（我并不怪 BioLite，这可能是那部分墙体结构的特殊性所致。）

With holes drilled and anchors set, I carefully attached the metal brackets to the wall. Everything looked level and sturdy, at which point I heaved the first of the massive batteries into place. Or, at least, I tried to. Turns out, I’d made a massive mistake. My idea was to mount the bracket so the Core battery was flush with the right-hand wall, but unfortunately, the Backup template isn’t designed with enough buffer space on each side of the brackets. The batteries stick out well beyond the sides of the brackets and a bit beyond the template; in my case, with the template flush with the wall, the battery pushed up against the wall and was unable to properly seat atop the bracket. Even if it had, it wouldn’t have mattered: The outlets for the Core battery are on its right side, so you need another few inches to make room to plug things into it (and to scan the QR code printed there during setup).

钻好孔并装好锚栓后，我小心翼翼地将金属支架固定在墙上。一切看起来都很水平且稳固，于是我费力地将第一块巨大的电池抬到位置上。或者说，我尝试了。结果发现，我犯了一个大错。我原本打算将支架安装好，使核心电池与右侧墙壁齐平，但不幸的是，Backup 模板在支架两侧的设计没有预留足够的缓冲空间。电池突出在支架侧面之外，也超出了模板范围；在我的情况下，由于模板与墙壁齐平，电池顶住了墙壁，无法正确地安装在支架上。即使装上了也没用：核心电池的插座在右侧，因此你需要额外几英寸的空间来插入设备（以及在设置过程中扫描印在那里的二维码）。

All of that is a long way of saying that BioLite simply needs to make its template larger to account for the extra room needed on the right side of the device. It’s also a long way for me to say that I then had to disassemble the brackets and redo the entire thing, shifting everything left a few inches.

说了这么多，其实就是 BioLite 需要把模板做得更大一些，以预留出设备右侧所需的额外空间。这也意味着我不得不拆掉支架，重新做一遍，把所有东西向左移动了几英寸。

Photograph: Christopher Null With my brackets finally repositioned, I was able to mount the batteries on them. The shape of the cells and their lack of handholds makes them a little awkward to wrestle into place—particularly after my earlier mishaps with the misplaced brackets—but once I had them hanging where they were supposed to be, secured with a single screw on the underside of the bracket, everything felt amply secure. The e

摄影：Christopher Null 支架终于重新定位后，我成功地将电池安装了上去。电池的形状和缺乏把手使得它们在安装时有些笨拙——尤其是在我之前因为支架位置错误而折腾了一番之后——但一旦我把它们挂在预定位置，并用支架下方的单颗螺丝固定好，一切感觉就非常稳固了。