HELP! The power went out..... but for how long???

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rsnoddy

My babysitter called me at 3:30 to let me know there was an alarm coming from my office. I asked her was anything on and she said no. I asked her was my sump flooding and she said it did not look like it. I explained to her how to reset the breaker and rushed home. The "alarm" was my UPS I have on my pump. I am not sure if it was working or not. I haven't tested it in a while. I have no idea how long the power could have been off. I left for work at 8:00 this morning. Worste case scenario 7 hours :( I have a feeling it went off closer to 12:00 though. I added a maxi jet 1200 to my daylight timer to simulate high tide I guess you could say. I had this going all weekend without issue so I am not sure what pushed it over the top today. Anyway the tank looks fine. Everything looks happy. What do I need to be looking for over the next few days to weeks? Do I have to assume my sand bed may be dead and be prepared for the worst?

Any and all input would be greatly appreciated!!
 
IMHO if things were gonna get bad, they'd have been bad by now, it LOOKS like you've just had a near miss... I've had my power out for roughly 12 hours with no problems...

Having said that, if it were any longer I definitely woulda been coming home and hooking the inverter and emergency powerheads up...

(And yeah, I know Marc had a disaster after just overnight, every tank's different) I really think though if things were gonna get bad they'd be bad by now...
 
Brian,

Thanks for the reply! That makes me feel better. I was hoping that someone else might have experienced this before and therefore know what to expect. I figured it might look okay now but if the bacteria bed was dead I might not see the results of it for a few more days.

I am going to go out and buy new batteries for my UPS tonight just in case this happens again. I still can't figure out what caused it to trip though. Very frustrating. Oh well time to run a few dedicated circuits I guess.
 
Yeah, I HIGHLY recommend dedicated circuits (Father in law (A professional electrician) wired some up for me for our wedding present many years ago)... I'd recommend you get two, and split the critical devices between them, that way if something trips one circuit, at least the other circuit is still running... (And of course, GFCI all the way around)

Definitely keep an eye on things, bad things COULD have happened, but I really think you dodged the bullet on this one...
 
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