Power outage (1 Viewer)

[JR]

I lost power this morning for several hours. My main pump (Mag 12) is on a APC UPS 1500 battery backup. After the power came on I noticed that the pump was making a loud humming noise. Could this be from running the pump on the UPS? Can running the pump on the UPS damage the it?

 

[ShaneV]

Yep the APC is providing the right power for the Mag 12. Something to do with sine wavs, I cant remember the details, but the end result is only some pumps will work with some APS's. Trial and error is your only hope.

Had it worked, I think you would have been suprised with just how short it would have lasted. A Mag 12 pulls ALOT of juice and would have drained the battery pretty fast.

As an alternative you could plug a powerhead into it to provide water movement. Or heres what I do:

I have a PennPlax battery back up air stone (It plugs in the wall and when the electricity goes out it comes on automatically). I have a powerhead and the airstone plugged into the UPS. WHen the UPS battery runs out the airstone kicks on. This setup will run me for abour 3 days!

 

[JR]

I was surprised that the UPS ran the pump and two powerheads for about 45 min. I put a battery powered airstone on the main tank when the UPS gave out.

 

[Guest]

I have one of those quick chargers for jump starting cars. I added an inverter to it and it will run my Mag9 for 12+ hours and it still showed a half charge.