Battery Backup For Furnace
So you can t have a car battery sump pump backup without an inverter.
Battery backup for furnace. 12v 100ah sealed agm lead acid 170. I live in a ranch in the north east. This isn t that much. A battery backup for the starting mechanism is probably possible but the bigger problem is the power to drive the blower.
The second generation of the car company s home battery packs a stackable 13 5 kwh of emergency backup to keep critical systems like furnace well oxygen machine refrigerator and internet going for days. You can t go to sears and get a car battery for sump pump backup. I d like to be able to keep the system running if i lose power like i did on sunday during the. There is no igniter we still have a pilot light.
I measured our furnace including circulator pumps as drawing just 1 7 3 6w depending on how many zones were running. Hi i search around here but i couldn t find any topic covering this. I asked the electrician to get me info on a battery backup for the system but he never got back to me. It is possible to use a power inverter to change your cars dc output to ac power for your sump pump to utilize.
I just switched from electric heat in my ceiling to a forced air gas furnace in my attic. Most sump pumps operate on a standard 110 volt ac outlet. Therefore my ability to operate the heating system in the event of a power outage depends on being able to keep the thermostat running. After thinking through options for backup power i decided to build something around a battery.
The thermostat runs on 24vac supplied via a transformer from household current.