Twigg
NES Member
Due to an extended stretch of unemployment and now being under employed I was not able to follow through with my origional plan of having a transfer panel installed along with buying a large enough top quality generator to run the house should the power go out for several days again.
On to plan "B".
I'll be buying a cheap generator fron Wal-Mart to run the fridge & freezer for a few hours and to charge one or two deep cycle marine batteries.
I plan to heat the place using an existing pellet stove and to run the stove off the above battey(ies). I intend to place the battery (or batteries in parallel) & inverter in a plywood box mounted to a small hand truck so I can wheel them into the house when needed and back out to the shed for recharging.
According to my Kill-A-Watt meter the stove draws 400 watts when the ignitor is on and settles down to 100 watts once the fire's going and the blower's on it never draws more than 105 watts after that.
I know I need an inverter rated for at least twice the start up draw, my question is if I want this to run the stove for at least 12 hours how big should the batteries be in terms of amp-hours and how does this relate to the power listed for the batteries using: 135 minutes of reserve capacity and 880 cold cranking amps - as an example ?
And a related question which make of inverter is a good one ?
The only thing I'd be running off it would be the pellet stove.
On to plan "B".
I'll be buying a cheap generator fron Wal-Mart to run the fridge & freezer for a few hours and to charge one or two deep cycle marine batteries.
I plan to heat the place using an existing pellet stove and to run the stove off the above battey(ies). I intend to place the battery (or batteries in parallel) & inverter in a plywood box mounted to a small hand truck so I can wheel them into the house when needed and back out to the shed for recharging.
According to my Kill-A-Watt meter the stove draws 400 watts when the ignitor is on and settles down to 100 watts once the fire's going and the blower's on it never draws more than 105 watts after that.
I know I need an inverter rated for at least twice the start up draw, my question is if I want this to run the stove for at least 12 hours how big should the batteries be in terms of amp-hours and how does this relate to the power listed for the batteries using: 135 minutes of reserve capacity and 880 cold cranking amps - as an example ?
And a related question which make of inverter is a good one ?
The only thing I'd be running off it would be the pellet stove.