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Subject: (ET) Power Inverters
From: Bill Alburty <willaim kc rr com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:00:36 -0600
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Every winter, when there is an impending ice storm, I begin to wonder ifthere is a way to use the 36 VDC power source of my ET battery pack tooperate my gas furnace for a day or two, since the gas is stillavailable. Those of you who have used ET power inverters for thispurpose could tell us how much wattage you can get from fully charged ETbatteries, and for how long. It would have to supply about 11 AC amps at115 VAC/60 Hz to run the blower and gas valve. At a reducedhouse-thermostat setting, it seems to me that maybe enough heat could becirculated to get through two day's power outage.Is there a good simple design out there for making a 60 Hz inverter?Does anyone know if the 24 VAC furnace gas valve will operate on DC?


Bill Alburty
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