xcreonx Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 We lost power in that nasty storm last night for like 3 hours. Luckily I had my UPS backups ready to go. Anyone else lose power? How did you deal with it? Backup systems, in whatever fashion, are ALWAYS a good idea. In the rash of hurricanes in Florida the last few years, we lost power numerous times, often for several days. And believe me, with 95% humidity and 90 degrees, things go south very quickly. My solution was simple: I had a battery-powered car jumper. It had a cigarette plug into which I plugged in a 400w power inverter to give me AC. This ran my Tunze 6000s for a good 12 hours. For longer outages, I simply hooked the battery-jumper up to a deep-cycle marine battery, simpy a boat battery. This gave me plenty of power to run 2 tunze 6000s and a mag7 for 3 days during Hurricane Jeanne. To cool the tank off, I had bought several bags of ice from the gas station and stuck them in our deep freezer. Even with no power for a few days, the deep freeze stayed cold enough to keep the ice at least mostly solid. I put ice in ziplock bags and floated them in the tank. Cooled it off nicely. I hope I never have to do any of this again I'm glad we're inland now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishypets Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Good ideas on the backup. There were a few times I thought we were going to loose power but didn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroescher Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I lost power from 9:00pm to 4:30am. The house was cool so heat wasn't a problem. I had just fed everything so I guess the corals got to feed on everything that stayed suspended in the water for so long. As far as I can tell, everyhing survived without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquadoc Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I just had my generator ready just in case....There was some pretty amazing winds last night too, as well as a realy nice light show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedude Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 We lost power at the store for 24 hours and it sucked. 10 pm Tursday to 10 pm Friday. 3 generators managed to keep most of the livestock alive but I shudder at what would have happened had it been hot out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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