[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Standby pump Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by Ari [Email] (#2847) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Ari) on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:10:33 In Reply to: Re: sump pump, standby, yaofeng, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:42:04 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

Or, what is the possibility of a nor-easter, with heavy rain and high winds knocking out power? Pretty good, actually. Same with hurricanes - lots of rain and no power.

I live in a pretty wet area, and even if there isn't a lot of rain, the pump runs occasionally. So it's always getting used.

Also, as you've found, pumps die. Every once in a while my main sump pump jams up - silt, a small stone, whatever, jams up the impeller. Ask me how I know.

For a backup pump, I have a 12 volt marine bilge pump, running off a 12 volt deep cycle marine battery I picked up at Wal-Mart, with a float charger to keep it happy. I have a totally separate float switch and exit hose. The total setup cost me about $125 in parts, and I need to replace the battery every four or five years. And in the winter, I can use the battery, through an inverter, to drive my furnace (gas hot water, so I only need a little bit of power to run the circulating pump). I saw the water powered back-up pump on This Old House, but I haven't priced it up.

I guess that if you get water only once every few years, a back-up pump is probably more trouble than it is worth. But an infrequently-used device should be tested regularly, as we all know.

Before I had the battery back-up pump, I spent a miserable night carrying buckets of water up the basement stairs by candle light when a heavy rain and windstorm took out the power.



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• sump pump, yaofeng, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:09:31
  • marine bilge pump in an emergency., sloopjohnb, Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:51:34
    • He, He,...My bilge pump is manual..., EricG, Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:01:08
  • Re: sump pump, standby, BobS, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:31:40
    • Re: sump pump, standby, yaofeng, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:42:04
      • Standby pump, Ari , Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:10:33 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Not too bad for far in Boston, turrbo , Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:47:00
    • We were doing OK, but..., Noel, Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:03:01
    • Coastal Maine is *WET*, Skip, Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:17:18
    • Re: Not too bad for far in Boston, AeroDave, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:59:39
    • *So far*, duh. Not "for far". (nm), turrbo , Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:47:36
  • Rain has been steady but not overly heavy in Essex...., TKC, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:27:11
    • I think we were lucky in NYC/Brooklyn/Rockaway, Chaz, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:31:55

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