As you all know power outages can be a real problem for our tanks . I have seen a few post as of late of people losing their tanks due to this . Sorry for your loss . But here are some ways you can keep the tank alive for the next time .
best option is a generator , but some people live in apartments and cant hook up a generator . for those people and anyone else there are a few ways to do this that are not very expensive . the cheapest way is to get at least a 1000 watt inverter and hook it up to your car and run cords . One step above that is to get a couple deep cycle Marine 12 volt batteries and twin them together to extend AMP hour rating . you can run a 250 watt heater and return pump off this for about 80 hours . If you really want to you can get a couple solar panels with a charge controller hooked up to those batteries and go even longer . maybe even forever . I just hooked mine to my car this last storm . But I am going to be getting some solar panels and might take my tank off grid . Hope this helps .
best option is a generator , but some people live in apartments and cant hook up a generator . for those people and anyone else there are a few ways to do this that are not very expensive . the cheapest way is to get at least a 1000 watt inverter and hook it up to your car and run cords . One step above that is to get a couple deep cycle Marine 12 volt batteries and twin them together to extend AMP hour rating . you can run a 250 watt heater and return pump off this for about 80 hours . If you really want to you can get a couple solar panels with a charge controller hooked up to those batteries and go even longer . maybe even forever . I just hooked mine to my car this last storm . But I am going to be getting some solar panels and might take my tank off grid . Hope this helps .