Purchase an inverter that has a built-in battery charger. A sine-wave inverter is preferable to a modified sine-wave inverter, but either will work.



Purchase 1 or more 12V deep-cycle gel-cell batteries.



The inverter is plugged into a wall outlet, the incubator is plugged into the outlet from the inverter, and the 12V batteries are connected to the inverter.



When the house power is on, the inverter provides house power to the incubator and the inverter charges the 12V batteries.



When the house power goes out, the inverter switches over and draws 12V from the batteries; this 12V power is transformed to 120V and is used to power the incubator.



The run-time in battery-mode is dependent upon the power consumed by your incubator and the number and capacity of batteries that you connect (in series) to the inverter.



The beauty of this system is that it automatically handle power outages without the need for manual intervention.

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• Back-up power for incubator (i.e. protection during power outages)........any suggestions? - JP, Mon Jan 26 16:09:55 2004
• RE: Back-up power for incubator (i.e. protection during power outages)........any suggestions? - BallBoutique, Mon Jan 26 16:48:35 2004
• Here's an option... - Renaissance, Mon Jan 26 18:45:39 2004
• RE: Here's an option... - BallBoutique, Mon Jan 26 19:33:35 2004
• Shouldn't your batteries be wired parallel? - PiedPeddler, Mon Jan 26 19:41:52 2004
• Duh... - Renaissance, Mon Jan 26 19:58:27 2004
• RE: Here's an option... - LdyPayne, Tue Jan 27 15:25:36 2004