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1bigfish 11-17-2017 08:57 PM

Back up battery
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by WarDog (Post 1020885)
Reef Supplies and J&L have them.

Great...thank you

WarDog 11-17-2017 10:31 PM

Here's a fun thread from a couple years ago. Ahhh... those were good times.

Tigweldpro 11-17-2017 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by WarDog (Post 1020905)
Here's a fun thread from a couple years ago. Ahhh... those were good times.

That's 11 pages of insanity. I love BC but some aspects of services & roads are sketchy at best in winter.

whatcaneyedo 11-18-2017 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by 1bigfish (Post 1020884)
Could you tell me where you bought the battery air pump from? Thanks

Wardog beat me to it but yes J&L is where I bought mine.

corpusse 11-18-2017 02:21 PM

7500 watt generator. It powers the tank entirely including lighting + fridge and freezer. One thing I did not realize after living my whole life in Mississauga where there never were long power failures is generators eat gas like crazy. Sure I can power everything but a full tank only lasts about 11-12hrs. I keep an extra 5 gallons around so I can always go 24hrs without leaving the house.

I was just reading about someone in Puerto Rico keeping their tank on a generator / solar panels for 40 days. If that happened here I'd probably run out of gas money before I lost the will to refill the generator twice a day.

Default 11-18-2017 04:32 PM

I have a 250 galon and I have a 22kw honeywell generator that runs on natural gas. Im in a wooded area and we lose power almost every year now. You dont even know the power has gone out the lights flicker and the genset is on. It has enough power to run my whole house, sump and heat pump.

ReefMadness 11-18-2017 07:11 PM

i just use an ice cap battery backup to run my gyres. they're supposedly good for 32 hours per gyre. hopefully i never have to test it.


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