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Article #623387Re: off topic All-electric homes
From: songbird
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:25
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:25
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:25:34 -0400 > Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > >> Electricity heating has the disadvantage that if you had a local power >> outage you had no heat. If you had some oil or gas powered system you had >> it at least warm, > > Most oil and gas heating systems need electricity to function, at > the very least to pump water round the radiators unless it will thermosyphon > well, but often to run the burner. > >> although your fridge, TV and other appliances wouldn't work. > > Lights too. > > I've been seriously considering UPSing my house - one consideration > is that the oven can take rather more than most reasonably priced inverters > want to handle - leave it out or pay the extra ... still thinking. we have propane for heat, but the fan does need electricity to recirculate the air. as a backup for heat in the winter we have our fireplace converted to be able to use propane so we won't freeze to death. we've used this a few times over the years to warm up some food and have a bit of heat, but it won't keep the entire house warm -- it doesn't often happen that we have a power outage for more than a day or two now. for lights with the modern LED bulbs i can run them off my computer UPS for days as they draw so little power. one or two bulbs will light the whole house well enough for getting around. as long as we don't open the freezer it will stay cold enough for a few days and we don't use the other bigger appliances so this setup is good enough. songbird
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