Heater Settings During a Power Failure

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I am using an X4 and a XP8 to control a 40 gallon planted tank and want to add a battery backup in case of power failure. When in power failure mode I want to run the return pump and heater only as a way of extending the backup time. Is there a way, without using a second heater, to lower the temp six degrees during the power failure?
 
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I am using an X4 and a XP8 to control a 40 gallon planted tank and want to add a battery backup in case of power failure. When in power failure mode I want to run the return pump and heater only as a way of extending the backup time. Is there a way, without using a second heater, to lower the temp six degrees during the power failure?
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Not sure why you would want to run a heater during a power failure. The only thing that runs on mine is the flow pumps which are both MP10's. My tank survived rolling blackouts a little over two years ago like this. The power was on and then off for the same amount of time. The longest was 4 hours on and 4 hours off. This went on for a week. It was below 32 degrees outside the whole week of the blackouts. It got below 50 degrees at times in the house. The tank is a 42 gallon tank. It got to just below 70 degrees. It took two day after the blackouts stopped to get back up to 76 where the heaters are set. I did not loose any tank inhabitants to the blackouts.
 
You are probably right, just trying to think of everything. I live in Michigan and we have short outages from time to time but we also get those that last days. Several years back I lost a tank of discus to an ice storm induced outage. Thanks for the reality check.
 
Sounds like you might need a generator for those times when there is a extended outage so you can use heaters. Heaters will drain a battery powered inverter quickly.
 
Heater will chew up your battery backup very quickly! That may well require a generator to run for an extended time.

Check out this thread for a DIY battery backup solution that would work with your X4 0-10v inputs.

forum.coralvuehydros.com

Low Power Mode/Prime Power Loss Detection w/o Icecap Battery (or WE/WELE)

Normally Hydros can detect when prime/wall power is lost by using the Icecap V3 Battery backup on a wave engine. Hydros does this by seeing the drop of DC power into the wave engine from 24V wall power to 12V battery power. Then you can configure Hydros to fall back to a pre-defined "low power"...
forum.coralvuehydros.com forum.coralvuehydros.com
 
Saw that Thom and that's how I plan on triggering the "backup mode". I have a generator but when I lost my discus, I was out of town, couldn't fly in because of the power outage. Swell!
 
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