1 lucky day! no power for 6 hours!

[ralph atl]

So I get a call from my daughter about 12:30 that we had no power, and the battery-backup stopped making noise. NOT GOOD!

I call the electric company thinking I forgot to pay or something, nope.........line was cut by some village idiot.

So, I call back Nicole, and tell her to get my generator going.......not bad, took me like 20 minutes to have her get it going (shut off main breaker, blah, blah, blah). Thanks Nicole!


I take off work about an hour or so later, do the MRC tour with Raj, and get home 2:45..............Well, the frig is on, tank is going, ceiling fans, blah, blah, blah.....It's 78 degrees. not bad.

Power went out at 10:30 and my battery backup (runs the 2 Tunze Stream 2's) lasted for about 2 hours. Not great, but not bad, either.

Nothing died, and it convinced my wife that I need the all house generator installed BEFORE her tree chipper that she wants for mulching her garden. Sweet!

Get a battery backup, and a cheap generator...........THIS COULD BE A FOR SALE THREAD!

Later,
Ralph

 

[cr500_af]

Make it an official for sale thread and PM me about the generator five minutes before you post a price and we move it.

 

[ralph atl]

lol! Yeah, I'll be selling that generator, once the other one..............

 

[cr500_af]

Meh, just write a check. It's just numbers on paper.

 

[acroholic]

Last week (Tuesday I think) we had some small, severe thunderstorm cells come thru the Sandy Springs, Dunwoody area. I was downstairs in the basement and the tanks were all running at 3:15 pm, before the storms passed thru. Then I had to go pick up my son from camp and get a few things. The storms passed thru right before I left about 3:30 with lots of close lightning strikes, VERY loud thunder etc. I got my son and came home, but didn't go back downstairs where the reefs are until 8:30, and I noticed that only one of my three reef tanks had lights on or water movement.

What had happened is that the lighting strikes had flipped the GFCIs on outlets of two of my three reef tanks. My 300 gallon and my 60 gallon had no water movement. I used a mechanical timer on one of the lights to determine that the tanks were still for 5 hours.

I reset the GFCIs and everything was fine, but how scary was that? First time that has happened in over two years of reefing.

 

[ralph atl]

5 hours is a very long time.........u were lucky, too!

 

[kirru]

wow, i guess I have to get me a battery back up too and seal the leak in my overflow box some how or raise the drain... sigh.. lots of work, no relaxation...

 

[mockery]

Acroholic;520425 wrote: Last week (Tuesday I think) we had some small, severe thunderstorm cells come thru the Sandy Springs, Dunwoody area. I was downstairs in the basement and the tanks were all running at 3:15 pm, before the storms passed thru. Then I had to go pick up my son from camp and get a few things. The storms passed thru right before I left about 3:30 with lots of close lightning strikes, VERY loud thunder etc. I got my son and came home, but didn't go back downstairs where the reefs are until 8:30, and I noticed that only one of my three reef tanks had lights on or water movement.

What had happened is that the lighting strikes had flipped the GFCIs on outlets of two of my three reef tanks. My 300 gallon and my 60 gallon had no water movement. I used a mechanical timer on one of the lights to determine that the tanks were still for 5 hours.

I reset the GFCIs and everything was fine, but how scary was that? First time that has happened in over two years of reefing.

I just bought a battery powered air pump from Mark to prevent GFCI problems.

Got really lucky Dave.

 

[acroholic]

Mockery;520432 wrote: Got really lucky Dave.

Sure did. There was power everywhere else on the first floor (ranch house) so I didn't think about the reef GFCIs. I'm going to start checking the tanks after these kind of storms in the future.