Boiler fused spur and power cut

[madwayne]

The combi boiler is certainly run from a single point. Although thermostat is wireless, is supposed to work without internet manually but not tested that ever maybe I should.

Unlike the back boiler, from what I remember there were a few things including a separate pump.

Changing the fcu to the socket & plug, is easy, but not practical, in terms of connecting to the portable power supply, and other things to connect to it. Like router and cctv and a few other bits, don’t draw a lot of power, but need to be on ideally.

Not practical to go commando and have a geny sat outside ready to go, but did consider the gateway and batteries for an auto switch but not practical.

If we were pushed we would be using the microwave, if we wanted a warm meal, we batch cook so have a few options readily available. But at this point it’s starting to get a little serious.

Locally speaking we have had some power issues last year, and power was off for the day whilst it was fixed and a couple hours on subsequent days as it was finished off. Certainly can cope with that kind of outage as long as we can keep warm.

End of the day it’s a temporary and probably not used, certainly wouldn’t be wanting windows opened when trying to keep warm.

Think I have enough to make a plan, just now need to do some maths to work out how big I need the storage to be to get us comfortable.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The combi boiler is certainly run from a single point.

A boiler is a single load point, and so could only be run from a single source point.

Unlike the back boiler, from what I remember there were a few things including a separate pump.

On modern boilers, the pump is fed/powered by the boiler.

 

[ericmark]

Made a mistake, the jump start pack is 300 watt not 150 watt, it was the one which plugged into a cig socket which was 150 watt.

Some require an earth connection that the portable power supply might not supply.

That is true, I know my 5 kW inverter auto connects neutral to earth with a power cut, but never tested my smaller inverters. And we also have true sine wave and simulated sine wave.

I don't have an oscilloscope, so no real way to test.

Changing the fcu to the socket & plug, is easy, but not practical, in terms of connecting to the portable power supply, and other things to connect to it. Like router and cctv and a few other bits, don’t draw a lot of power, but need to be on ideally.

Not really sure why you think it is not practical? I look at inverter generators, (better sine wave to non inverter), inverter battery, and inverter battery with solar panels, of different sizes and prices, and I have no idea which would and would not power central heating.

Due to weight, really limited to 2000 watts. But unless it has a second use, it is rather expensive. I look at these, at the moment not permitted in the UK, but I think we will see a change in the regulations, if this happens we will likely see a lot more adverts for them.

I am watching with interest to see what happens. I have a balcony so hanging one of these units on my balcony would give me solar earlier in the day, and be used every day, not just when we have a power cut.