power outage while away from home harman p61a

Stove was left in room temp manual when I left for work this morning. Apparently we lost power for about an hour this morning. What am I going to go home to tonight? Besides the oil monster running because temps dipped in the house? Haha. Luckily it's unseasonably warm and sunny. I've never started the stove in manual mode before. If I had I would probably know what to expect.

 

Well got home and smelt a very faint smell of smoke. Wife couldn't smell it when she got home half hour after me. Stove was off and burnpot was full of half burnt pellets. Scraped the burnpot and decided to take a good look at the vent termination outside before firing it back up since the stove was off. Noticed a thin layer of creosote on the last foot or so of the venting. Probably about 1/16". Last time I did the vent cleaning was just after we had a power outage for about 20 minutes and I noticed roughly the same amount of creosote buildup in the same location. Never seen it before. Wonder if the power outages had anything to do with the little buildup? Smoldering pellets causing this? Not sure. Will need to keep an eye on it.

Well anyway, I did a quick vent cleaning and used some wet paper towels to clean up the thin creosote buildup. Fired the stove back up and got the really bright and active flames that I always get after doing a vent cleaning. Back in business. Don't think the oil monster even had to turn on because it was so warm outside.

 

Hello

You may want to think about getting a surefire 512 battery backup?

 

Got one to give me? I have plenty of other things more that require my money right now. Knock on wood we have only had a handful of power outages since we moved here. All were not storm related. They were vehicle accidents that took out a utility pole or power station equipment failure. Today was only the second one during the heating months.

 

Glad no damage was done to your stove dex.! We luckily didn't lose power during the ice storm we had just before Christmas. Plenty of people did around here but somehow we lucked out...

I'd like to get a ups. Just too much stuff going on right now in life that requires money. I can deal with the occasional brief power outage.

 

The reason I said surefire 512 is that it uses replaceable car batteries like a deep cycle marine. The issue with a UPS is that when the batteries wear out, they are so expensive you just have to junk the whole unit.

 

Dang that surefire 512 is expensive! Won't be getting one of those in the near future for sure.

 

False.....the replacement batteries for my UPS are $35 each....so $70 bucks every 4-5 years ( this is a guess, my unit is three years old and the batteries are fine)

You could bu my UPS with pure sine wave output and batteries to last you 30-40 years before getting to the initial cost of your recomendation.

 

how long will your UPS power the stove? Will it run it long enough for the fire to go out (could easily be an hour or more)?

 

Roughly 40 minutes with convection fan on high. Plenty of time for my stove to shut down, which takes about 15 minutes. There is a bigger version that may add a little bit of time.

 

My power went out last Tuesday the coldest freak'in day of the year , no issues here . Power comes back on 5 hrs later fire up the stove It's all good no need to drop coin for a ups