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Power outage for two full days!



I will be documenting the process and elaborating on lessons learned.

What's your plan like for these types of events?
 
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I got the notices a few days ago, so I had time to plan and they also called me to remind me, which I thought was nice.
 
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For me, I'd have a generator for basic life support for the corals/fish. The corals will be ok w/o lights for a couple of days so make sure they have flow and heating and/or cooling. My generator provides enough power for that as well as to keep the fridge running.
 
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Today and tomorrow, honestly without a plan I believe this to be one of the most stressful things that can happen to a reefer.
 
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Ok, lets talk generators. What direction: whole house or just a portable for plug in to frig, tv and a couple lights. do we need a new thread on generators, I don't know anything about them and feel like i should know a lot about them
 
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watchguy123 said:
Ok, lets talk generators. What direction: whole house or just a portable for plug in to frig, tv and a couple lights. do we need a new thread on generators, I don't know anything about them and feel like i should know a lot about them
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New thread please.

Tv, fridge? Just the tank man.


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I say fridge and tank thats how i did it i have a big generator that powered them both even my wall ac and chiller lmao

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Fly5150 said:
I have a generator if you want to borrow it...


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Thanks bud, I appreciate the offer, I have a backup plan in place with generators. Awesome of you to offer though.

watchguy123 said:
Ok, lets talk generators. What direction: whole house or just a portable for plug in to frig, tv and a couple lights. do we need a new thread on generators, I don't know anything about them and feel like i should know a lot about them
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Whole house is the most convenient, but also most expensive. Some are natural gas powered, regular gas, or DIESEL. I'd have a hard time justifying a whole house generator consider the few times I've used my portable generators. The portables I can also use for camping which is nice. A lot more discussion on this, just a few thoughts to fire off before the real discussion happens.

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New thread please.

Tv, fridge? Just the tank man.


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Mike and I were joking, did you plug in the Fridge? LoL, what fridge!?

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Haha that's what I was thinking. For sure no TV. Tank and Fridge with Beer.
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Nice!

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I say fridge and tank thats how i did it i have a big generator that powered them both even my wall ac and chiller lmao

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Nice!
 
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Your tank should be fine looks like you'll have power from 6pm-8am so reverse your lights and get a battery powered air pump

I went 3 days with no power on my old nano cube... Edison had a transformer blow at my apt which in turn fried all the wires in the splice box that went to the next transformer then to our main building panel.. It was a mess!!

They brought in a towable generator for the apartments... But since the wires fried from the transformer to the main panel our building was SOL for 3 days!!

I took a cup and would scoop up water and pour it back into the tank like 10 times every so often to airate the tank...

Everything survived

But like I said looks like you'll have power over night

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ep3n3wp said:
Your tank should be fine looks like you'll have power from 6pm-8am so reverse your lights and get a battery powered air pump

I went 3 days with no power on my old nano cube... Edison had a transformer blow at my apt which in turn fried all the wires in the splice box that went to the next transformer then to our main building panel.. It was a mess!!

They brought in a towable generator for the apartments... But since the wires fried from the transformer to the main panel our building was SOL for 3 days!!

I took a cup and would scoop up water and pour it back into the tank like 10 times every so often to airate the tank...

Everything survived

But like I said looks like you'll have power over night

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dont trust those notice. they told me im going to be out of power for 8 hours. i didnt get power back until the next morning
 
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