newbie help and suggestions please

[JRA]

Happy to be a member and just bought my first home. My wife and I just had a winslow pi40 insert installed and we love it so far. I purchased 1 ton of newp, and I am also trying a lot of different pellets including easy blaze, cannawicks, purcell, north idaho woods, awf pine, energex, okanagans gold. Need some advice on surge protector (I have a Belkin) pellets, etc. I clean my stove every three days and have a powersmith ash vac that works great. Any advice on cleaning would be great. Very excited to burn this winter!

 

[Doug Doty]

Welcome, I'm new here too. I have just been reading about surge protectors and UPS backups, there is a lot of good info here

 

[yrock87]

I have a surge suppressor, but honestly if I were to do job over I would get a ups or even a voltage regulator/suppressor. All three cost between 30 and 60 uses and the ups and the regulator also acts as a surge protector. But both also protect against voltage irregularities (more long term) in addition to voltage surges(instantaneous surges)

 

[JRA]

Thanks for the suggestion. What brand do you recommend. Very new trying to learn the best practices

 

[yrock87]

Thanks for the suggestion. What brand do you recommend. Very new trying to learn the best practices

Lots of threads here on UPSes. I have a small apc for my entertainment center. Time from ma has a nice looking setup with a 1500 apc tied into two deep cycle marine batteries. I'm a little jealous of his set up.

Voltage regulators can be found on Amazon.