Jackery Announces ‘world’s Slimmest’ Fridge Battery

Jackery is jumping connected nan fridge-battery inclination pinch what it says is nan “world’s slimmest.” FridgeGuard besides looks nice; a break from powerfulness stations that thin to look much astatine location astatine a occupation tract than nan room aliases surviving room.

Measuring conscionable 2.63 inches (67mm) thick, nan Jackery FridgeGuard powerfulness position is meant to beryllium tucked connected apical of, beside, aliases down your refrigerator and automatically outpouring to life pinch a 10ms UPS switchover during a powerfulness outage. Its humble 800W of AC output (1600W peak) and 1kWh LFP artillery will support nan emblematic US fridge / freezer combo moving for astir 10 hours — aliases double that if you adhd a 1kWh description battery. Jackery says its cooling fans run astatine 40dB, aliases astir arsenic large arsenic a modular fridge.

While designed for fridges, there’s thing preventing you from installing it successful a chamber to support a CPAP breathing instrumentality operational during a blackout, aliases successful nan surviving room to life-saving devices moving for illustration a crippled console and TV moving until grid-power returns.

Jackery’s FridgeGuard joins a increasing database of slim batteries designed to support nutrient from perishing during powerfulness outages. Biolite was 1 of nan first (it’s yet shipping successful August), followed by Bluetti and fancy newcomers for illustration Pila.

FridgeGuard is disposable initially arsenic a Costco exclusive successful nan US starting connected June 22nd. It’s priced astatine $559.99 for members.