Cali Kid Corals

So what things should you have handy in case of castrophy?

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The chiller return came loose. It wont again. All the water onto the ground under the house - I freakin' love having a remote sump!

An inverter is a device that you plug into your car battery, either through the contacts or the lighter, that converts the car power to 110. You can use it in a pinch to run equipment, and some have reported that it is more efficient to run your car all night in an outage than it is to run a generator.
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[quote author=Thales link=topic=6797.msg88479#msg88479 date=1237044058]
The chiller return came loose. It wont again. All the water onto the ground under the house - I freakin' love having a remote sump!

An inverter is a device that you plug into your car battery, either through the contacts or the lighter, that converts the car power to 110. You can use it in a pinch to run equipment, and some have reported that it is more efficient to run your car all night in an outage than it is to run a generator.
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The "some" that have reported that are most likely wrong. My 3000 watt Yamaha generator uses about 1 gallon of gas in 8 hours running my tank, fridge, and some basic home necessities.
I kinda need this because in Muir Beach where I live the power can go out for days.
In a pinch, if you could park your car near enough, an inverter saves you the cost and trouble of buying and owning a generator. That is where it would be more cost effective. My Toyota Tacoma came standard with a 400 watt inverter in the bed. Handy for minor short term power but it won't run a skill saw.
If you have a hybrid car I heard there are kits available to plug in the car to run your whole house!
 
For an inverter for a car you'd most likely want a good one with a sign wave output not a chopped square wave as most are. I ran into that issue with my Prius, pumps aren't really happy when you try to run a square wave signal through them, heaters most likely would be ok.
 
Last year the power went out in Woodland, my old place of residence, for 27 hours. I made due with a 750W inverter and a couple deep cycle Marine Batteries. I was able to run pumps for a 135g, and a 28g for the duration with no problem and even ran the heater for a while until I started worrying about how long the power could be out.
 
any tips on a UPS that will run a koralia? I just tried connecting a koralia to the UPS that I normally use for my cable modem and router, but when in backup mode it just rattles rather than spinning. I assume that's because the waveform is too square.
 
I used an APC too on my koralia before I got my vortec BB(..which is dead now from the accident.) It drove the koralias just fine.
 
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I run an APC UPS 750 and it has run a K2, it's now running a Nanostream and seems to work fine for me.
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be750g? http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BE750G
 
The "smart" series of APC ups seem to output sine waves, however the downside to them (and other modified sine waves) is the efficiency is absolute crap unless you're putting a decent load on it, which a single Koralia pump won't do.
 
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