Richard Gray’s Ultimate Home Theater Backup Machine - Don’t Miss a Touchdown

The problem with gas generators is they take too long to come on after a power outage, and they're awfully loud. The trouble with uninterruptible power supplies is that they can't power an entire house.

Richard Gray's Power Company has a solution for this power-supply gap. The PowerVault combines an online battery back-up with the benefits of the company's 1200C power delivery system, providing the "ultimate answer for a truly uninterrupted home theater experience," as the company literature says.

The system has 92 amps of capacity so it can power an entire home theater system--lighting, amps, projectors, the works--with no down time.



"If you're watching the SuperBowl and you were smart enough to buy a generator, it has to wake up. That's about three minutes," says RGPC founder Richard Gray. "Then all the gear has to reboot. By that time, you've missed a good touchdown."

A UPS would keep the action going, but you'd need a lot of them to back up an entire theater.

The PowerVault, on the other hand, can back up a whole house, possibly, and an entire home theater, definitely. "It wouldn't hold up a central AC unit," says Gray, "but maybe a wall unit. So you can sit in the theater room and have some cooling."

The PowerVault can work in conjunction with a generator or solar power. When the supplemental power kicks in, the PowerVault can shut down, and vice versa.
The PowerVault comes in 5kW and 11kW versions priced at $24,500 and $29,500, respectively. An electrician is required for installation, and it will be the first product for which RGPC requires certification.






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