On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:19:45 +0100, GuardedResponse
wrote:

"Flash Wilson" wrote in message
Not knocking the idea - just explaining that we've thought about
it before and this is what I've come up with. Plus of course I can't
afford one at the moment - otherwise I'd upgrade the Fluval 204 to
something more reliable...

How about a small petrol powered generater? Can be had for a couple of
hundred quid from Makro (or could last time I was there). Handy for all
sorts of things during power cuts.

Not a bad idea, I don't know how you plug them in but presumably
you can wire them in so they power everything, rather than having
to plug in the specific things you want?

Are they noisy to run? I live in a very built-up area and I recall
one place where I worked got into trouble with the neighbours for
running a generator, of course that was a much bigger scale but
means my only knowledge of generators is "they are loud".

Good idea... I'll have to look into this, because if it would
run the computers too... I'm also looking into getting some kind
of device so if we lose power it makes a noise and wakes me if
it's night time. Although if we are out, that could annoy the
neighbours too! But if I'd known at 2am that we'd just lost power
the action I could have taken with the fish tanks is different
to 7am when I woke and found out that the filter was probably
already compromised.

Cheers,


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Flash Wilson
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