Battery Backup

[SWelsch]

Any thoughts on a battery backup for a 52i?
Of course I'm asking cause the power is out!

 

[krushmoto]

Bought a CyberPower 1325 VA 810 Watts 10 Outlets UPS, Pure Sine Wave UPS with USB Charging Ports GX1325U battery backup from Newegg for my Englander 25-pdv when it was on sale for less than $110 and glad I did.
In the past 3 hours I've seen 4 brown outs. Who knows how many times the power glitched when I was out.

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[Overfireinthehole]

Any thoughts on a battery backup for a 52i?
Of course I'm asking cause the power is out!

Save your money and get a small generator. The battery backup just prevents smoke from coming in the house during an outage. Even a brand new deep cycle battery will only give you a few short hours of burning. If you get enough smoke into your house from power outages that it’s a problem, your unit may not be vented properly

 

[SWelsch]

Thnx for the feedback, time to do some homework

 

[gfreek]

Yes, backup sine wave UPS, gets you time to either shut down or fire up generator (also sine wave). Good luck..

 

[alternativeheat]

I'm running my P61a on my conventional TroyBuilt 5500 watt generator the rest of the house items are running on, including this computer as I type ( on it's charger). The only thing I have to manual start the stove because it's surge protector is on an extension cord. Too much draw for the igniter and the circuit the surge protector normally is on is not part of the circuitry the house wired on.I won't leave it like that overnight but I will be looking into adding it's circuit to my transfer switch in the basement in the future. Usually I run the oil heat in outages like this but thought I'd try the generator. The stove is running fine on it and looking at the amp draw at my transfer switch it's drawing less voltage than the boiler does.. But the igniter and stove on start up were pulling almost 500watts The boiler runs fine on it, the hot water heater runs fine on it, two refrigerators run fine on it, all electronic controlled and have for 10 years. Heck the generator itself has an electronic voltage regulator.

Someone on the forum here who is into this stuff stated a while back that most of today's modern generators will run a pellet stove. Additionally, someone else said that on a late model Harman if the electricity is too dirty it defaults to not run. Mine runs.

All the above said,if I had no generator and was looking to just run the pellet stove I'd still look at pure sine wave. However we did not buy the generation to run a pellet stove but the house. And I'm not telling anyone else to do this but I had to try it after 5 years of owning the stove.

 

[Ssyko]

Someone on the forum here who is into this stuff stated a while back that most of today's modern generators will run a pellet stove. Additionally, someone else said that on a late model Harman if the electricity is too dirty it defaults to not run. Mine runs.

Any generator that uses an electric motor(in reverse) is putting out sine wave power which is compatible with todays electronics. 99% of the generators on the market are built this way. hydro electric stations operate giant electric motors in reverse flow powered by water and nuclear fission

 

[Deromax]

I have a Cyberpower 1500 VA pure sine wave, and it will power my stove for 1.5 hour at the lowest setting. Power is faily stable around here, and when it quits it's never for long periods. ymmv.

 

[alternativeheat]

Around here 1.5 hours of power in a 3-5 day outage doesn't cut it. We need real backup, but then again I'm amazed how everything is black all around me tonight, I almost feel guilty being the only house in the immediate area lit up and heated, no spoiled food etc. 26 hours so far, they are telling us this is a two to three day outage right here. Some areas got back on grid today though. On the other hand generators do take maintaining too.