[Shotimes] OT sump pump backup system

[Paul Nimz]

Yes most batteries are only good for couple of hours.  For serious battery
backup get a commercial grade UPS system.  Or three or four regular deep
discharge batteries in parallel.  But parallel battery connections have their
own maintaining problems.

Paul


On 12/22/2005 11:14:55 AM, Ron Porter (ronporter@prodigy.net) wrote:
> 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-----
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> On Behalf Of Mike Wojton
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:26 AM
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> 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