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Crap! Power out and I am in NY. :(

Eight

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This always happens to me, without fail. :( I am in NY for three days and the power is out at home. It's apparently been out since 8am. Of course, I had been putting off the battery backup for my vortechs as well. sigh. If this outage goes much longer, is there anyone near San Jose who could help lend and hook up a battery backup on my tank? there's a garage code that will help you get into my house...

If anyone can help, please give me a ring.

stressed, ugh.

Jason
408-314-7260
 
Not calling because it's not THAT helpful, but...

I can go over to do whatever you need me to do, but I don't have a battery backup, sorry.

-Mitch
 
Thanks mitch. yeah at this point i need someone with either a ups or a vortech backup. i am hopinh power gets restored soon... not sure what caused the outage.
 
Max may be able to help you out. He should be just getting up about now, do you want me to call him and see if he can go or if one of his guys can go? I doubt they have a back-up or UPS but they probably have battery operated air pumps.
 
Gresh... thanks so much for the offer. Power just came back up. Phew! I have to say, its a big relief having a great club at the standby. Thanks everyone. :)
 
My roommate told me about the power outage... ac3 texted my phone when power got resumed. right now i cant tell when the power goes out... altho i spose i could set up a webpage monitor on a hosted server to constantly ping my ac3 webpage...
 
Well, got back Sunday and most everything is ok...

I lost an orange torch colony that had arrived from LiveAquaria while I was gone. (My friend put it into the frag tank...) Unfortunately, that particular section the frag tank depended on the water flow from an Aquaclear filter which of course failed to restart when the power went out.

The other problem I found was that the fan I was using failed to come back on after the power outage. The fan uses psuedo electronic controls, so if you turn it off and on while it is plugged in, it remembers its settings, but in a complete power outage (or if you unplug the fan) it 'resets' itself, so the AC3 was unable to turn that fan back on. That fan has since been replaced with a simpler/larger one which uses a manual physical switch.

Some lessons for me:

1) Use appliances (fans) with simple mechanical switches
2) Be careful with devices that require siphons to start (Aquaclears + power outages are bad)
3) Don't have new shipments come in while you're away. (I didn't have much choice with this one, because Liveaquaria wouldn't hold my order longer)
4) Yes, everything will go wrong when you are away. (After two months of stable running with no incidents, during the four days that I was gone I had a power outage, a fan problem, a filter problem and a heat wave. Double sigh.)

Thanks to everyone on BAR for the help!
 
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