Power Outtages

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Originally Posted by nevohraalnavnoj

I looked into them about a year ago...and if I remember right even the really expensive ones could only run 1000 watts for about 20 minutes.

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An 850w Belkin UPS model will run for about an hour or so if not overloaded. That means running a full-load for about an hour. If you overload it, the power will be drained a little quicker and you might only get 30 minutes. However, by underloading it, like with just a single BP heating unit and lamp, I imagine the power will last a lot longer.

Thanks for starting this thread! Our power went out for a short while too. My first thought....."Oh my goodness I need to ask the snake site!!!" Of course, when you need something most :rolleyes:

I'm thinking about buying a cheaper generator.. so when I get my incubator set up for my corns I can be safer than sorry!

How do you manage to hook up your refrigerator, fishtank, and snakes too the generator? Isn't that a LOT of long wiring?
Why do things have to be so darn difficult in my house.. It's super old, and my snake room is my bedroom and closet. My closet will be my main room (it's walk-in and relatively large) and theres only one plug on the ceiling.. joy.
Not to mention there are 4 plugs in my room.. and 7-8 walls. D: Stupid old plaster.

Thanks everyone!

Okay, so this is a little silly, but I thought I'd throw in my experience.

I've only had to manage a power outtage once, for a couple of hours, and since I've just got the one snake, Badoo, the solution was relatively simple...

We have a product purchased from one of those "Slumber Parties" dealers, but I imagine you could find them on the internet at any adult novelties site. It's a vinyl heart about as big as a salad bowl, filled with some sort of liquid chemical and a little strange metal disc suspended in the fluid. It's all non-toxic stuff because of its, well, intended purpose, but here's how it works. You flex the little metal disc back and forth inside the heart, and it starts some sort of chemical reaction that converts the fluid inside to a hard sandy crystal. The chemical reaction generates heat -- the outside of the thing warms to about 100 degrees while the crystals are forming and the heat lasts about half an hour. Once it's all solidified, you just boil the heart for about ten minutes and it goes back to a liquid, you dry it off and store it until next time.

This thing came in really handy the one time I had a power outtage to deal with. I just started it warming up, wrapped it in a paper towel, and stuck it in the terrarium.

I guess this wouldn't work for a huge setup with dozens of snakes, obviously, but for those of us just keeping one or two snakes, this is my recommendation. They're marketing under the name "Hot Heart", paid about fifteen bucks for it. And hey, while the snake's not using it...

I have a bunch of heat packs which I can use (and have used in order to keep snakes warmer while doing a winter vet run). I've also used a glove filled with hot water to keep a gecko warm during a vet run.

Since the hot water is heated with the gas heater, I could always resort to that if I had to. I've considered getting a generator, but since I live in an apartment, I don't really have a good way of hooking stuff up to it.

As for the backup power supplies, they just don't last long enough for me to want to spend the cash on one.