Posted by mannyc on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 5:07PM :
In Reply to: Re: Speaking of wood pellets posted by Gary Troxel on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 4:59PM :
the fan, igniter, the auger (that pushes the pellets into the hopper) and the computer to run the whole thing. its a great unit, but in order to power it without electric, you would need to go to an inverter and then a bank of batteries. for a 1 day outage, you could do the battery bank inverter thing, but longer than that would drain the batteries and the solar couldnt keep up. it draws about 750 watts for the fan and computer and i think the inverter is more.
i looked into it last year and kinda gave up on it as a backup power source. i can run my gas furnace with my 5hp generator easier. i would like to generator equip the house.
mannyc
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