≈ 1.2 days (24h/day) · Safe motor start buffer (98.7% margin).
Starlink running (150 W max) and start-up (188 W max) draw fit the Anker SOLIX F3800's 6,000 W continuous / 9,000 W surge ratings.
Gen 2/Gen 3 dish light browsing with snow melt off (50 W)
Starlink Standard Gen 3 dish + Wi-Fi 6 router rated load (100 W)
active snow-melt heating and heavy throughput (150 W)
≈ 1.2 days (24h/day)
System standby power: 25W (18.8% of total draw)
Provides 6× CEE 7/3 (230V), 1× IEC Commando (32A), 1× Commando (16A/32A) (120/240V 60Hz).
Pure sine wave inverter output. Safe for sensitive medical electronics and variable-speed motors.
Electronic/resistive load with 1.2× start-up profile (98.7% surge margin).
Wall AC fast charge at up to 1800W (120m to 80%, 150m to 100%).
Safe envelope verified: Starting surge (120W) remains comfortably below the 9000W surge trip line, with steady-state operation settling into the safe continuous zone at 100W.
About 29 hours on AC power, with the Starlink averaging 100 W (Starlink Standard Gen 3 dish + Wi-Fi 6 router rated load (100 W)). The Anker SOLIX F3800 then draws about 133 W from its battery, including 25 W for the inverter itself. Best case: about 49 hours (Gen 2/Gen 3 dish light browsing with snow melt off (50 W)). Worst case: about 20.5 hours (active snow-melt heating and heavy throughput (150 W)).
That simple division gives 38 hours, but the Anker SOLIX F3800's inverter draws about 25 W whenever its AC outlets are on. At this light load that's 19% of everything the battery supplies, and inverter conversion losses take a further share. The idle figure comes from Anker.
On wall power: about 120 minutes to 80% and 150 minutes to full (Anker figures). With its maximum 2,400 W of solar input connected, expect about 1,920 W in full sun, so a full recharge takes roughly 2.1 hours of full sun, so it can refill in a single day with 4 peak sun hours.
It can act as a backup supply: with the Starlink plugged into the Anker SOLIX F3800 and the Anker SOLIX F3800 plugged into the wall, it switches the Starlink to battery in about 20 ms when the grid fails (Anker calls this UPS mode).
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