Emergancy Heaters (Power Outage)

[Toirtis]

Several HOURS is right.

It depends on your needs, really...for instance, in the 21 years I have lived here in Calgary, I have not had a power-cut that lasted longer then 2 minutes, and outages longer than 3-4 hours are unheard of in this city, so something like this would more than meet my needs, and if a person waited a couple of hours before using it, it could get you easily through a 12-16 hour outage, and would run you a bare $200.

It would make more sense to purchase a gas generator. As long as you keep filling it with gas it will run.

A good option for someone with the threat of 24+ hour outages, and about $1000-$1500 to spend.

 

[Toirtis]

i dont think filters use that much power.

Most do not....typical usage is 6-40 watts, depending on the filter.....its the heaters that really draw the juice.