Battery Backup

[Indiana]

Just saw this in Best Buy for those who don't have a battery back-up for their pellet stove. I'm ordering one now. If you add something for a penny to bring the total to $100, you get a $10 gift card also.



http://www.bestbuy.com/site/APC+-+J...stem/2984066.p?id=1218369111466&skuId=2984066

 

[gfreek]

Been looking at these. But how do you figure out how long a stove would run if it drew 3 amps??

 

[IHATEPROPANE]

Just saw this in Best Buy for those who don't have a battery back-up for their pellet stove. I'm ordering one now. If you add something for a penny to bring the total to $100, you get a $10 gift card also.



http://www.bestbuy.com/site/APC+-+J...stem/2984066.p?id=1218369111466&skuId=2984066

FYI I originally bought an APC (not the same as what you show) that put out a "step" wave and my motors did not run right. I returned it and got the one in my sig for the same price. Stove runs normally and can go 30-50 minutes depending on convection fan speed.

 

[mc2055]

Looking to add a battery backup for my Harman P68. I only need it to run long enough for me to pull the generator out of garage and fire it up. My question is I have my Harman unit on a 45 in the corner of the room. My outlet and surge protector are both behind the stove, can I put the battery backup there too or is that too close?

Thanks & Happy New Year to all

 

[rwthomas1]

If you want to extend the run time of your battery backup system you can easily wire a deep cycle battery to the UPS. Every UPS I've seen runs on 12volt sealed lead acid batteries. As long as the UPS output can support the pellet stove then its a simple thing to add a much larger battery to the UPS. I've gotten cheap UPS's at garage sales, etc. as some folks don't seem to know that the batteries in them can be changed! A better long term solution to a power outage is a small inverter generator. I have a Honda EU2000i that ran for 5 days continuous after hurricane Irene. It ran two fridges, the plasma TV and the computers. Next time it will also run the pellet stove if needed. RT

 

[Rokal]

Looking to add a battery backup for my Harman P68. I only need it to run long enough for me to pull the generator out of garage and fire it up. My question is I have my Harman unit on a 45 in the corner of the room. My outlet and surge protector are both behind the stove, can I put the battery backup there too or is that too close?

Thanks & Happy New Year to all

I have an APC (American Power Conversion) model #BE750G which Harman recommends in their owners manual for the XXV. I have not had any trouble with this UPS. It was cheaper than the CyberPower.

 

[Salty]

Alot of those apc backups use 26 or 28v batteries.

I just had to have them replace a br1000 that went bad.

 

[nypelletburner]

I don't know if this will help but i have timberridge 55-trpah (englander 25-pah) using a kill a watt meter on start up it draws 380 watts and then after it gets running stays around 155 watts.
i plan on making my own battery back up for my 2 stoves.
so as i figure out what i need and how to make it cheap ill share my info