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what plans do you all have in place for power failure, how would you heat/cool your collection in an emergency? the only thing I can think of for emergency heating is the hand warmer thingies. cooling, I have no idea.......ice in a plastic container to put in the animal's enclosure?
 
Ed, what I had in the past was a Car battery that was connected to a convertor that changed 12 to 120 volts you can pick this up at any auto parts store for like $ 40 it comes with 3 outlets, so depending on how many plugs you have would determine how many you need... on a side, note always leave 1 outlet open for a Battery charger.
 
i use a old generator just curious how long will the car battery last running many lights with an alternator i know im running 2 12volts on my car and in on 1/4 run ive only got about 4 volts left of charge
 
number1steakfan said:
i use a old generator just curious how long will the car battery last running many lights with an alternator i know im running 2 12volts on my car and in on 1/4 run ive only got about 4 volts left of charger
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HUH !!!! :rofl: I've ran it for 3 days last time I used hence the battery charger
Bill & Amy said:
Anymore you can pickup cheap generators for around $125.
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That works too, but with gas prices its not economical. :rofl:
 
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Last time I checked generators get alot better fuel efficiency than a car. The one we used with my grandfather ran around 4 days on 5 gallons of fuel. I consider it cheap compared to the number and cost of animals I could lose. I doubt a car battery would run my 50+ cages and incubator for any significant amount of time.
 
Bill & Amy said:
Last time I checked generators get alot better fuel efficiency than a car. The one we used with my grandfather ran around 4 days on 5 gallons of fuel. I consider it cheap compared to the number and cost of animals I could lose. I doubt a car battery would run my 50+ cages and incubator for any significant amount of time.
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Ok maybe I explained this wrong.....The car battery isn't in the car... :rofl: ya I guess I can see you point with running that much juice. maybe 2 batteries.
 
I didn't think it was in the car, just comparing the efficiency of generators to cars.
 
I use a

a 5000 watt generator to run my 60 foot building.. So far have not had to use it!!! Keep my fingers crossed and pray alot!!!! Mike
 
forgot to mention, if you run a computer of a generator you should connect your computer through a battery backup unit, UPS, to condition the power used by the computer. Serious hardware damage might occur otherwise.
 
Skylinux said:
forgot to mention, if you run a computer of a generator you should connect your computer through a battery backup unit, UPS, to condition the power used by the computer. Serious hardware damage might occur otherwise.
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Tux If I was with out power, The last thing I'd be thinking about would be a computer :rofl: I just think of a Po' mans way of doing things (IE) why buy it if you can build it, rather keep the money in my pocket for better things. :dgrin:
 
when my power goes out all i worry about is the important this like fridge,freezer,animals and most important tv chance are it will probaly be back in a few hours using a generator better than replacing hundred of dollars in food
 
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