[Shotimes] OT sump pump backup system

[Ron Porter]

A friend of mine got one after losing thousands from his freezers when power
went out for a few days.

After that outage, he spent big bucks to get his basement remodeled. Since
he is on city water, he got a water pressure emergency sump pump, as an
outage over a few hours will kill the battery on a battery-backup system.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mike Wojton
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:26 AM
To: `V6 SHOtimes
Subject: [Shotimes] OT sump pump backup system

I want to get a backup system for the sump pump in my basement.  Anybody
have
any experience with such things?  The easiest way to do it, I would guess,
is get a
battery system to power the pump when the power goes out.  I'm sure it would
have
to be some type of battery that can sit for long periods of time before
being used.  Is
there a charging system involved to keep the battery charged?  If not could
you just
put a trickle charger on it?

I also heard about a system that uses water pressure to turn a pump.  The
theory being,
I suppose, that your water pressure should never go out in a storm.  Anybody
heard of
such a thing?

ps. My apologies to Paul Nimz for the OT.  ; )

--
Mike Wojton
Dover, PA

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