Power is Out Batteries on!!!
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When operating on batteries they default to 12% intensity. Do you have a battery airstone running? You really should have one MP40 and your return pump running on battery not 2 MP40s.
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Thank you water at top is moving
You should be fine till you get home
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well I am running two return pumps neither is hooked up to the battery, how would I get Return pump to hook up to battery? isn't is those little headphone looking jack things
If you got a lithium battery backup station you could keep the mp40’s on whatever setting you want, and have longer runtime. They function like a ups and switch to battery as soon as power cuts out, then switch back when power is restored
This is a good one
This is a good one
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am currently running the echotech battery baackup
in response to your post, it is a sub par battery that only gets its run time by reducing output power to approx 10% which may or may not be sufficient for your needs. Also the ecotech batteries will degrade on their own over the course of a few years and runtime diminishes even if you barely ever use them. The internal batteries need to be replaced regularly
The item I posted is an alternate with better battery tech with 10 yr life span, higher capacity, and is capable of running the pumps on whatever setting you currently use, without reducing to 10% in an outage. They have better / longer runtime also
Just something to consider if you ever decide to replace / upgrade from the ecotech backups, or if you desired more flow during outages
FYI my tank can run 30+ hours in an outage with no reduction in power. If I manually turn down my pump, I can hit 40+ hours. At 10% I can hit 60+ hours
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Thank you for the info! I love knowing my options
I run the ecotech battery back up. One lead is connected to my vectra M2 pump and one lead connected to my MP40. By design they default to very low intensity when battery power comes on because it prolongs the battery life during black out time.
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On the lead that is connected to your return pump, how is it connected? Did you have to get an adapter?
Yes the return pump has a different type of lead. Ecotech sells it if you are using a vectra or versa pump.
@VintageReefer - Are these times with the unit you posted above? Can you give me an idea of the wattage you're running at these points (30 hours, 40 hours, etc.) . I've read a number of your posts and I'm trying to figure out if I can get by with the unit you posted above or need something bigger, or maybe two of them.
Thanks.
The formula is
The units rated watt hours x .85 diciddd by your watt load
That cellapowa 1000 is 1000 watt hours
My pump is dc and adjustable, it’s normally around 18 watts
(1000wh x .85) / 18 = 47 hours of runtime
If I was running dual pumps on it at 18 watts each, that’s 36w load
(1000 x .85) / 36 = 23.6 hours
Realistically most outages are less than a day, you can scale up in battery power if you want or find more efficient pumps, or you can get solar panels to recharge during day times if you want to prep for several days of outage.
The units rated watt hours x .85 diciddd by your watt load
That cellapowa 1000 is 1000 watt hours
My pump is dc and adjustable, it’s normally around 18 watts
(1000wh x .85) / 18 = 47 hours of runtime
If I was running dual pumps on it at 18 watts each, that’s 36w load
(1000 x .85) / 36 = 23.6 hours
Realistically most outages are less than a day, you can scale up in battery power if you want or find more efficient pumps, or you can get solar panels to recharge during day times if you want to prep for several days of outage.
Not that this is helpful at the moment of crisis, but maybe for the future: I have put all the essentials (heater + return pump) on a UPS. Generator is better, of course, but hard in an apartment. I have always a battery-operated pump with an airstone sitting in case of longer power outages.
I just had to deal with this yesterday. I have a generator but don't always want to lug it out for short outages. I have an ecoflow river 2 max. I have my whole setup plugged in to two ADJ Products PC-100A AC POWER STRIPS. I plug each strip into the ecoflow and then flip off anything I don't want to run. With everything on, 2 pumps, 2 LED's, ato, heater, powerhead and skimmer I had about 6 hours of power. I turned everything off but 1 pump and the powerhead and jumped up to 14 hrs. It ran on backup for 7 hours, It said I still had 8 hours left. Turned out the power was out way longer than initially anticipated so we hooked up the genny. Nice thing about this unit, with lifepo batteries, it charges from empty in 60 minutes.
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Thanks for this.
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