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Originally Posted by NanoN00b
Well, his drywaller might hate him...  I'm glad I don't have to hang any in there. 
Dave, that power issue, did you get an electrician to install all those circuits?
There are devices like this:
http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-d...ger_x2-61.html
That can monitor power and your can track them (SNMP traps, emails, etc) and with a UPS and small server, you can log everything and even get power usage stats. What gets measured gets managed.
To run everything on a UPS, you're going to need to think big, like home genset big - if your power goes out for 12 hours on account of ENMAX (not impossible), all the emails in the world won't prevent an issue. You'd have to get a pretty big portable generator to keep everything running for any extended period of time.
If you get any UPS to run the motors for your pumps, you might want to check out how they run on the step-approximated UPS's... I have to use a true sine UPS otherwise the motor on my pumps just shudders for 5 minutes. |
i was looking at getting one of these on a switching sub-panel
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/eco-...closure/934334
from what i understand, if the house losts power the sub-panel will switch over to the generator with in 10 seconds.
it will only power the pumps and heater
the generator runs on natural gas so it should be able to run extend period of time