Aquarium Backup Power! Save your Reef Tank! 

Loved that fade away effect at the end. Solid work overall. Thank you for the content.

Great video. There are a ton of spreadsheets and calculators out there to help calculate back up time based on a particular product. For example, a large refrigerator might be 750w so calculate that against your KW/hour capacity to find out how long it should run. Wouldn’t be nice to see one built for the aquarium trade. Add the items you want to run on your aquarium to calculate how much power you need to plan for. Then, dealers’ choice on how to provide the backup power (solar, fuel, etc.).

Just had a big snow storm and lost power for 18 hours. Very happy I had a whole house automatic Kholer generator installed in the fall. It cost me 12 grand but worked flawlessly.

If you live in South-Africa you have to plan your backup power before buying a tank, we currently have 12hours of no electricity every day split into 2 and 4 hour intervals, i have a 2kw inverter running my mp60's

Hey Deven, great vid - I got a 11kwh Generac whole house standby generator for about $5k installed - they might be cheaper than you think? Once you buy the larger batteries and generator, you are probably $2-3k in anyway? Generac's might be more expensive in Canada, not sure. We just had a snow storm here and it was running for about 18 hours straight hooked up to natural gas line - it could run for weeks if necessary - and it comes on automatically. Good peace of mind for sure...

Hey Dev! Great info! I actually made a battery backup similar to the one you are wanting to make using two 206AH lithium batteries , 3000W inverter and a battery charger. They did cost almost 2grand but it works beautifully and I have all my return pumps and flow pumps running on it as backup. No need for a switch it automatically turns on when the power is cut. I can run my essential systems for 3+ days. Eventually going to add solar panels. Thanks for the content!!

Maaan...we just had a huge storm here in NH USA. Thank God I bought a generator last year because we've had major outages...days.

Days before Snowmegedon 2021 I picked up a second generator. During the 2021 storm, the power company cycled power on 60 min/off 45 min for several days. It was enough to keep the house warm and cook meals, but not enough for my tanks. It made using my CPAP impossible. LOL. I used the power on time to fuel up the generators and inspect for leaks or anything that could cause a failure. For those who already have generators, I highly recommend starting them and letting them run a good 20 to 30 minutes before we get too close to the storm moving in. You won't be the only one at the hardware store looking for spark plugs, pull start cords and so on. (I broke the pull start cord the day of the 2021 storm and the on/off switch went bad 2-days into the storm) Get what you need before you really need it. Probably a good idea to pick up some extra fuel cans and fuel ahead of the storm. Worst case is you need it and can't get out of your driveway. A few 25 ft or longer extension chords would be a good idea too. I discovered that I needed 50 ft extension cords. You want the generators running a good distance away from your house to reduce the noise and exhaust fumes getting in the house.

I’ve got a Honda 2800 watt inverter generator for my tank specifically. This is overkill (for my needs) from a wattage perspective, but it does the job nicely and leaves plenty of wattage beyond my tank needs to power a few other things.

You can just clip your generator cords to each bus bar of your electrical panel when it goes out and save the money on getting it hard wired.

When we had our freak snow storm in TX 2 years ago I purchased a generator. The generator got to my house after the storm had cleared. My generator runs on propane or gas. It's still sitting in the garage in the box, haven't been opened, go figure 😐. I was looking at the generics too. Putting blankets over the tank, heating water on the gas stove putting the water in bottles to float in the tank to help with the temp, running portable battery air pumps and bailing water to get water movement in a 150 gallon tank was terrible. I never thought about shorting out my neighbors running my new generator when I finally do use it. Can someone fill me in on that? The battery backup I purchased for the gyres failed.

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