Working Through a Power Outage with the PeakDo LinkPower 2

A few months ago PeakDo sent me their LinkPower 2, a battery built for the Starlink Mini, to test. I’d wanted one anyway for power outages and for trips to parts of Costa Rica where cell service gets thin. After it got shipped to my friend in San Diego who brought it down to me, it sat on the shelf in the box without much thought.

Yesterday morning a transformer blew near my building in San José. The power went out, and after my pathetically small UPS lost battery, the internet went with it, and I had a client call I couldn’t miss.

My phone’s hotspot was my first try, but inside my apartment with concrete walls, I didn’t get sufficient signal for a video call. So I opened the box, plugged the LinkPower 2 into the Starlink Mini, and sat it on the roof, hoping the Wifi would reach my apartment. It did! I didn’t read the manual or change a setting. It was all very plug and play.

The outage lasted about three hours. I stayed online the whole time, took the call, and the client never knew the lights were off on my end.

The Starlink picked that morning to install a software update, which cost about 5% of the battery. It didn’t knock me offline, so I didn’t mind.

Outages here are usually short, but even a short one ruins a call if it lands at the wrong moment. The Starlink Mini keeps me connected when the local internet dies, but it still needs power. The LinkPower 2 is a 99Wh battery that PeakDo rates at about five hours of Starlink runtime, and it’s small enough to throw in a bag.

It’s out of the box now, and ready for the next outage. When I drive out to the remote corners of the country, it’ll ride in the car with me.

Disclosure: PeakDo sent me the LinkPower 2 for free. They didn’t see this post before I published it, and the opinions are mine.