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azgambit

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Since: May 31, 2007
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:41 pm
Post subject: Power supply issue for fresh and salt water tanks
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Disclaimer - I am posting this question for my wife who is fish tank smart
and computer stupid. I am fairly clueless when it comes to fish tanks. Also,
while my question is regarding both fresh and salt and this group is aimed
primarily at only fresh, I felt that the question was generic enough that I
could post it here. I apologize if I am mistaken.

My wife has a 30-gallon freshwater tank with live plants and an 80-gallon
saltwater tank, non-reef. Both tanks healthy (so she tells me).

Anyway, not to bore anyone, during the summer months we have monsoon storms
that have a nasty tendency to knock out the power. The freshwater has
handled this OK in the past, but she is concerned about the saltwater tank
(which is new) and, although it has handled it OK in the past, she does
stress about the freshwater tank.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding a backup power supply for these
tanks for those times when the power goes off?

My wife has already suggested a generator, but I am not putting a generator
in the middle of the living room, not very feng shui :-) I am looking for
something that can be hidden in the cabinet or something along those lines.

If you can help you can reach me here or e-mail me directly at
azgambit.DeleteThis@cox.net.

Thank-you all.

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Larry Blanchard

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:41 pm
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azgambit.DeleteThis@home.org wrote:
>
> Anyway, not to bore anyone, during the summer months we have monsoon storms
> that have a nasty tendency to knock out the power. The freshwater has
> handled this OK in the past, but she is concerned about the saltwater tank
> (which is new) and, although it has handled it OK in the past, she does
> stress about the freshwater tank.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions regarding a backup power supply for these
> tanks for those times when the power goes off?
>

You might consider a UPS if your power outages are fairly short. Most of the
small ones die after an hour or so, but s larger one might work longer -
you'd have to do some research.

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It's turtles, all the way down

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carlrs

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Since: May 21, 2007
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:41 pm
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On May 31, 6:41 am, azgam....DeleteThis@home.org wrote:
> Disclaimer - I am posting this question for my wife who is fish tank smart
> and computer stupid. I am fairly clueless when it comes to fish tanks. Also,
> while my question is regarding both fresh and salt and this group is aimed
> primarily at only fresh, I felt that the question was generic enough that I
> could post it here. I apologize if I am mistaken.
>
> My wife has a 30-gallon freshwater tank with live plants and an 80-gallon
> saltwater tank, non-reef. Both tanks healthy (so she tells me).
>
> Anyway, not to bore anyone, during the summer months we have monsoon storms
> that have a nasty tendency to knock out the power. The freshwater has
> handled this OK in the past, but she is concerned about the saltwater tank
> (which is new) and, although it has handled it OK in the past, she does
> stress about the freshwater tank.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions regarding a backup power supply for these
> tanks for those times when the power goes off?
>
> My wife has already suggested a generator, but I am not putting a generator
> in the middle of the living room, not very feng shui :-) I am looking for
> something that can be hidden in the cabinet or something along those lines.
>
> If you can help you can reach me here or e-mail me directly at
> azgam....DeleteThis@cox.net.
>
> Thank-you all.

There are few options options you can use.

*Azoo makes a heavy duty air pump (runs several devices) that runs on
normal 120 V AC, then switches to a built in battery when power fails
for 9- 12 hours.

* I personally used a few inverters, each contected to deep cycle 12 V
batteries to run our aquariums and electronics in our LFS in LA during
the many rolling black outs we had a few years back. A 400 Watt
modified sine wave or pure sine inverter works well.

* You can purchase a relay (from an electronics store such as Radio
Shack) that you place in your contol line for your Inverter that
closes (making a circuit) when power fails thus automatically swithing
on battery power

* There are also cheap little 'D' battery pumps that can run one small
air pumps

Carl
http://aquarium-info.blogspot.com/
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azgambit

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:27 pm
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Thank you both for the suggestions and I will pass them along to the mrs.

We had considered a UPS as I have them on my computers, but we were having
trouble locating one the would suit her needs (could be we were looking in
the wrong place).

I checked out the Azoo and that may be the solution. She'll have to look at
it, though.

Thank-you both!!!!!
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