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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by lukeschlather on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:04PM (#26174130)
I have an oil furnace, and when I was looking into it it sounded like setting up a battery backup that could allow me to keep the fans running through a power outage like this would probably be more expensive than replacing the oil furnace with an electric one.
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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by rootusrootus on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:38PM (#26174400)
If you have to use a battery, then that's probably true. But then again, once you have an electric furnace, the battery requirements are going to go up far more dramatically.

As an anecdote, my furnace blower pulls about 11 amps on 120V AC. So I can run it with a little 2000W inverter generator but won't have much spare capacity for anything else.

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