Power Outage question

[djam]

I received a note from my landlord they are doing emergency repairs to the power today from 1-3pm. Since it is in the middle of the day and I'm down to a single fish I figure it won't be anything to worry about, but in the future I might not have warning and will hopefully have a few more fish.


Is anyone using a UPS on their tank? I was thinking of connecting the heater, in tank skimmer and maybe a small powerhead.

Thoughts?

 

[n@no]

I have four car batteries and 4oo watt inverter and everything runs for at least 6 hours but i have charge the batts with the car lol

 

[StarBlenny]

I figureed if you plug in a heater + powerhead on a decent UPS, you'll probably get at most, 30min...

A drop in ph can kill your tank faster than your temp... Just plug in your powerhead in your UPS and you may get about ~3hours depending on what powerhead and UPS you're using. I used a Koralia 425 and a UPS (forgot what model) and I got about 2 hours out of the UPS... I've been looking at getting a mp10 + battery backup since I have a small nano and I'm probably going to run the mp10 at most, 25% of the full power and I might get at least more than 36hours...

Though long term since we live in socal with random blackouts, you might wanna look at gasoline generators...

 

[xthunderx]

Power out means survival mode and you want to maximize your run time. I run my vortech nothing else on my backup battery. It runs for about 4 to 5 hours.

For sure don't plug in heater, energy hogs. Skimmer is not really necessary I've gone for days without a skimmer with out issue. Powerhead is the only thing you should plug in.