khh27 January 22, 2016 Share January 22, 2016 Why do you say that? Resistive heaters shouldn't care if you're feeding them a square wave or a modified sine wave or a sine wave. They're actually more forgiving than other devices that act poorly to the harmonic content in square and modified sine waves. Your tank's water temperature can drop a substantial amount before most stuff will have much of a concern. Even 70 degrees is tolerable. You can increase the time it takes to get to the lower temperatures by raising the temperature of your tank a little now. For example, take it up to 80 from 78 will buy you a little extra time before you're forced to use other means to heat the tank. I use my Stanley 500w power inverter all the time when I wanna take a road trip and use it to run a heater in my 5g buckets. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul b January 22, 2016 Share January 22, 2016 HOW DO YOU KEEP TANK WARM? Boil water from gas stove? Ideas? I am thinking I throw a dozen firefish in there with a couple of flame scallops and maybe a fire coral. Keeps it nice and toasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sen5241b January 22, 2016 Share January 22, 2016 I throw a dozen firefish in there with a couple of flame scallops and maybe a fire coral. Keeps it nice and toasty. Kek Here's an idea I have yet to try. My twin size electric blanket draws 180 watts and when I get under it I roast. Wrap my tank in it with modest flow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaguy January 22, 2016 Share January 22, 2016 I'm very prepared. I sure hope its gonna snow more then this... Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menglish January 22, 2016 Share January 22, 2016 I too feel ready. Bought another marine deep cycle battery from costo this morning. Charged them up and they are ready to go. My neighbor has a whole house generator and will allow me to recharge my batteries at her place if needed. Also got D-batteries for my air pumps plus the battery back up for my mp40 is ready to go. Now let it show. Looking forward to taking my son out to sled in the winter wonder land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul b January 22, 2016 Share January 22, 2016 This was my back yard last year and what it will probably look like in the morning. No problem. It's kind of interesting. Of course, you still have to get rid of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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