What would be a good back up battery pack for a St. Croix pellet stove? We dont lose power often, but a couple days age we lost it for eight hours. It started to get chilly!
Maybe I worded it wrong. I'm looking for recommendations to buy a battery for backup. Thanks for any help you can give!
get a lifepo4, the largest you can afford. make sure you get a lifepo4 charger as well. without knowing the energy requirements for your pellet stove, I don't know the AH to recommend. Or if you need an inverter to hook stove and battery together.
You would need at minimum 1,048 wh battery back up.I like my EcoFlow battery stations. I use Delta 2 Max (D2M) to back up the main floor pellet stove in the winter. I solar charge it during summer and use it to run my microwave, dishwasher and coffee maker (and a few other things). At 50# and 2,048 wh, it is pretty much the perfect balance of capability, functionality, portability etc. Up to two extra batteries could be attached if you decide you want to later. This station has been out for 3-4 years and is tried and true. I have 2 of these. The app is pretty good, and still ahead of Bluetti's similar new offerings. If you don't think you would use it for anything else and don't need extra battery potential or the total solar charging capability of the D2M, a cheaper and somewhat lighter 2,048 station is the EcoFlow Delta 3 Max (not the Plus). It is one of the newer offspring of the D2M. I have one and have found it very capable, for my use. It has an upgraded app that has some cool features (storm guard is the most useful). If you want a lighter station that is perfect for "dipping your toes in", a Delta 3 Plus (D3+) is a great station for that. At 1,024 wh, and being the newer generation it has nice app capability, great solar input, one EB can be attached (but you can attach a HUGE battery to it), and weighs about 35 pounds (IIRC). It is my second favorite station of all of them that I own. There are other itterations of that, which can be very confusing. The Delta 3 1500 (1,500 wh, but fewer actual capabilities), Delta 3 Classic and probably a few others. DO NOT get a Delta 3 Air - you will not be happy or impressed (the only whiff that I truly dislike). There are also Delta 2 stations that are the older generation, but are tried and true. They also tend to be on sale for fantastic prices. I am not a fan of Bluetti, even though my first 2 stations were from them. They are behind, in everything as far as what I've seen and I'm not impressed with their support. But, there are plenty of people that like them, so they aren't all bad. All I'll say is that both AC180's have fubarred screens. They run fine, but the app is disappointingly simple and you don't even know how long it will take to charge the unit unless you look at the screen on the station (which, when the screen is fubarred, is impossible - and I wouldn't need the app if I were next to the station). It can only attach to blue tooth - not wifi - so range is is very short. As a comparison, I am 1300 miles from home and am monitoring all of my EcoFlow stations set as backup right this minute.
