My brother is an electrician and said plugging the sump pump back-up
system would be fine for my electric bed. Bobbie
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Krehbiel <[email protected]>
To: bobbie299 <[email protected]>; quad-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:35 am
Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Back-up power for our beds ~ solution!
A word of warning about backups and generators and so forth. I did a
bit of research on this, and apparently there are different qualities
of electricity. From what I read, a generator or a battery might put
out "pure sinewave” or “modified sinewave” power. The modified sinewave
is less expensive and is perfectly acceptable for large motors in
refrigerators and sump pumps, but I have heard that this could be
dangerous to batteries and sensitive electronic devices. In other
words, a backup or generation solution which works perfectly fine for
your sump pump could possibly ruin your bed, computer, and so forth.
I'm not an engineer or an electrician. But maybe you might want to
research this a bit further before you plug in your sensitive devices.
If anybody has more information about this topic, I'd sure like to know
about it.
Good luck, and take care,
Dave Krehbiel
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 3:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [QUAD-L] Back-up power for our beds ~ solution!
Hi All,
Remember when Hurricane Sandy hit and we were all talking about a
back-up system to power our beds if the power goes out? Well, I thought
of a solution … sump pump back-up battery! My brother is an electrician
and he said these back-up battery systems would be perfectly safe for
in the bedroom.
The way they would work is you plug in the back-up battery directly
into a wall outlet, then plug your bed into the back-up battery. The
entire time the battery is plugged in it is being charged. Then you
plug in your bed directly into the back-up battery system. You can have
a light or TV plugged in as well, but the more you drain from the
system the shortest it would last. As soon as a power outage would
happen the sump pump back-up battery would automatically switch on …
you wouldn't even need to be home.
The sump pump back-up battery cost anywhere from $150-$800
depending on how may Amps you want to have … the higher the cost the
longer you'd have back-up power. They can be bought at a Battery Plus
store or Home Depo type stores, if they don't have them in stock you
can have the store order it. You can also order them on line just
Google sump pump back-u battery.
Bobbie
