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eclipse29
09/14/2003, 10:30 AM
My dad came up with this suggestion the other day when we were talking about what to do if isabel comes this way. Here is the idea. I was thinking that i would go and get a couple of car batteries and an inverter but my dad said that would still only run it for less than a day before the batteries were dead. so we though about doing this having 2 car batteries. 1 powering the pumps through the inverter while the other battery would be outside attached to a pair of jumper cables charging of the running car. anyone see any problems with this?

ReefMon
09/14/2003, 10:34 AM
Then there's no need to purchase the additional batteries, just run the inverter off the car.

eclipse29
09/14/2003, 10:39 AM
I live in an apartment so i am too far away from my car also on top floor.

johnfaas
09/14/2003, 10:53 AM
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64918