| A Battery Back Up Sump Pump - Is it | | | | they are water or electricity. |
| Necessary? | | | | Battery Power is Reliable |
| It seems that people have been looking for the | | | | A battery powered backup sump pump is |
| perfect, fool proof sump pump system ever | | | | designed to kick in if either one of those two |
| since the technology was originally developed. | | | | types of main pumps fail. The electrical main |
| Each type of pump and its backup pump seem to | | | | pump can fail if the power is shut off and the |
| have inherent weak points. Of course any pump | | | | water powered system can fail if it is |
| on its own without a backup system is a recipe | | | | overwhelmend by a deluge of water that it can't |
| for disaster, so the best that you can do is try to | | | | handle. |
| decide what best suits your current situation. | | | | Batteries Last Only So Long |
| Is there a Fool Proof System? | | | | Battery powered sump pumps work great but |
| On the surface, a battery powered backup | | | | they have one big weak spot. That is that the |
| system would appear to be fool proof. However; | | | | battery's can run low and then the pump will fail. |
| if it was as it appeared, wouldn't the battery | | | | But cant enuough batteries be stored? Even then |
| powered pump be the main sump pump? The | | | | if a storm system goes on for a week and there |
| reason for this is that even a battery powered | | | | is no power for the entire duration it is simply |
| backup sump pump has its down side. | | | | impossible to have enough batteries. |
| Water and Electrical Powered Main Pumps | | | | Creative Engineering is the Answer |
| Its not hard to figure out how a sump pump and | | | | So what is the solution? There is no fool proof |
| its backup system work together. If the main | | | | sump pump system that will go on indefinitly. This |
| sump pump fails, then the backup system will kick | | | | means that you can have a reliable system with a |
| in and do the work of pumping the water out of | | | | battery powered backup sump pump but it will |
| the basement. There are two main sources for | | | | only last so many days |
| power that a main pump will be run off of and | | | | Written by Joe Finkelman. |