Smart Home Battery Any Homeowner or Renter Can Install

[radiata]

Nice backup power development.

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[bigyankfan]

Has anyone pre-ordered one of these and does any electrician or electrical engineer in the audience know if one of these will support a large reef tank and if so, for how long? Thx.

 

[Boehmtown]

I'm no electrical engineer, but it's got 1600 watts of storage. Probably 1400 useable. My return pump is 100 watts. So that's 14 hoursish. That is for a thousand bucks.... You can get an uglier one for probably around $500 with the same capacity. You can get an 800 watt for like $200 , so if you have a very efficient return pump that can go for quite a few hours. It's definitely on the expensive side. I'm going to get an 800watt battery backup ($200). That should buy me about 7-8 hours to get home and get a generator running. Much past that you'll need your HVAC going anyway most of the year.

 

[MadReefer]

I saw these and you would need to daisy chain them for more capacity. They can be ran separately for each piece(s) of equipment. They over priced in my opinion.

 

[radiata]

Talking about generators - is anyone looking for a cheap one? I have a tri-fuel generator sitting unboxed in my garage for longer than I can remember. If I needed to set it up tomorrow, I probably couldn't rise to the occasion. What is a tri-fuel you ask? It runs on gasoline, OR natural gas (like your gas oven), OR propane canisters like the kind used in your BBQ. I went with this type because before I got it, I had witnessed 40+ people standing in line in the freezing cold with red plastic gasoline containers waiting for gasoline at the only station in my town that could still pump, in a horrendous winter storm that had knocked out everyone's power. Propane canisters were still available elsewhere without any lines.

 

[MadReefer]

Nice Bob. I'm looking for a generator inverter because they ate light and more quiet. We are not allowed to have generators where I live but have borrowed one and ran it.