Has anyone ever ran their pump on a car power inverter for an extended amount of time? I know the pump draws 50 watts on half power. The inverter can do 160 watts. My power is being turned off for 4-6 hours tomorrow.
Return Pump on car power inverter?
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I have done this before no issues. Ran a ext cord into the house.
If it's not a true sine wave inverter it might run pretty poorly. Pumps generally run pretty rubbish without a nice sine wave. I've tried running canister filters on a non sine wave UPS, they rattled horribly and had barely any flow.
What size battery do you have? Most are in the region of 70 or so amp hours, You don't want to discharge it more than 10% if doing it frequently, or you'll start to kill the battery. But for a one off 50% is probably ok. So 35 amp hours gives you 420 watt hours.
You should be ok for about 8 hours.
Worth trying and seeing how the pump runs beforehand. Otherwise, for such a short time I probably wouldn't worry about it, if you have a canister filter I'd unplug it and give it a quick clean afterwards. Unless you have a small, overstocked tank(you didn't give any details) your fish should be fine.
What size battery do you have? Most are in the region of 70 or so amp hours, You don't want to discharge it more than 10% if doing it frequently, or you'll start to kill the battery. But for a one off 50% is probably ok. So 35 amp hours gives you 420 watt hours.
You should be ok for about 8 hours.
Worth trying and seeing how the pump runs beforehand. Otherwise, for such a short time I probably wouldn't worry about it, if you have a canister filter I'd unplug it and give it a quick clean afterwards. Unless you have a small, overstocked tank(you didn't give any details) your fish should be fine.
4-6 hours shouldn't cause you any issues. I was involved in the California power outages and all my tanks went without heat or circulation for several days on more than one occasion with tank temps down into the upper 50's to low 60's. I was nervous about the whole situation but I didn't sustain any losses, or even any negative effects. I keep a mix of everything from neocaridina shrimp all the way up to my big dovii, and everything in between.