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Originally Posted by stevehull
Yes, I could do batteries, but that would be a lot of money for infrequent outages.
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actually not too bad. Since you have decent generator you could go with the minimum battery bank size. Since the batteries are mostly in float and discharge only during outages, and you could insure (with the generator) that they do not discharge very much, lead acid would last quite a long time (10-12 years).
You would probably be looking at about $2k or so for the battery bank. Added bonus is that you would not need the generator running ALL the time but still have power, allowing a savings in wear / fuel.