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Yes it does I have a bunch of Rockwood in there. I need to take a new video of it lol

I don't believe so, mine is the XC8000E model, which is pro version with electric start and the g force engine. I have had no issues with it shutting off. I have a louver vent fan that blows the heat out and an exhaust outlet for it on the shed.

Nope, never overheated

Thank you! Yeah I upgraded it to a larger basin so it works a lot better now too.

Yes sir. On the front there are 2 rubber feet, on the back is the wheels.

I have to take a new video of it, it's a lot quieter now lol. Thanks!

Thanks!

Thank you!

I got it for free from work so I was just messing around with what I had, batteries were also free from work so it was worth it. I use an inverter with lithium batteries for my house now and a smaller UPS for my PC which works very well.

@@SamsDIY Thank you sir!

I'll have to take a new video, this one is old before I put the second layer of rockwool in.

It's just some T1-11 siding I put over the rockwool panels. Hope this helps!

I have a plastic screen material going around the outside of the basin with 1/4"x1/4" squares. I couldve definitely gone smaller with the holes, but I have yet to get any solids. Plus there is a lot of stone on the outside of the basin. I also have a stainless mesh screen under the pump, so if anything does get in there, it won't get into the pump. The pump is good up to 1/2" anyway. Thanks for your insight!

Right! I just use batteries now so no noise at all. They'll last about 3 days on my critical loads panel, after that I would have to switch to genny power

Thanks, the wooden frame has held up great so far! It's been about 5 years. Good luck with yours!

I don't use that setup anymore, I switched over to LFP batteries and a 6000w 24v inverter. It is a lot more streamlined. But this UPS did work pretty good in a pinch.

Thank you very much! It's still working great.

Yeah you mean mount the motor end on the top correct? I had no way to mount it in that position since it clamps around the tube and it sticks past the mount. I had limited room in the top and a bunch on the bottom so that's why I had to do it that way. Other actuators mount at the top and bottom, but not this one.

Haha no way that's funny, that's probably what it was!

It could also be the tree frogs, the gray ones with the sticky pad hands/feet.

Bro one time a baby opossum came to my house FOR THREE DAYS IN A ROW 😭 so cute! How did I know it has a broken finger :(

I had one get caught in a snap trap and it was small. I kept it and fed it bananas among other things and it loved the bananas! It got better in about 3 weeks so I let it go back close to where I found him. He was funny.

I just made up some longer 10ga. wires to reach from the Anderson connections inside the battery compartment to the external batteries. That was all, it worked well, very simple.

I set them up as they are normally wired in this unit. This one has 2 sets of 2-12v 7ah batteries wired in series at 24v. So 2 pairs of wires from each set of 2 batteries going into the 2 Anderson connectors inside the battery housing. I believe it is a 48v unit. I did no actual modifications to the unit, just grabbed some longer 10ga. Wires and threw some Anderson connectors on and called it a day. I have since gotten a couple newer units and just use those instead. I have large backup batteries for the house that takeover after the ups takes the initial hit. Hope this answers your question!

Thanks for the tip! This was THE last one at Lowe's when my basement was flooding so I was stuck with it. It's a model 75 1/2 HP, so it's the budget model. I'll run with this one til it dies then I'll look at something better.

Thank you!

Yeah I hear ya man that's how mine was before, the rain lately has been ridiculous. Thanks, and good luck!

The Rockwool works good I have it between the studs now too, but that's a good idea I didn't think of the horse stall mat! I have a bunch of CO alarms in my house, all levels. Thanks!

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Yes lol I sized it bigger though since then and went up to a 4" single wall chimney pipe with the elbow.

@@SamsDIY Good man. 1" diameter extensions are nuts.

Yes I did I have the check valve with a weep hole angled down at a 45, the plastic has held up great, nothing looks worn and we are getting torrential downpours as I type this for 2 days now, not a drop, and it's flooding all around me haha.

Great! Mine's been holding up for 20 years now... BTW, you must be near my area then LOL Happy Holidays!!!!!!@@SamsDIY

@@SamsDIY What is that about, check valve and weep hole? (thank goodness for youtube university!)

@@mfb6310 the check valve is just a one way flapper valve that allows water to discharge out, but not flow backwards back into the pit through the pump, after a pump cycle. The weep hole is a hole drilled at a downward 45 degree angle UNDER the check valve on the discharge pipe, to prevent airlock of the pump, which would lock it up because air becomes trapped in the pump housing. Hope this helps!

@@SamsDIY Yes it does! Thank you. I tried to learn more but I was getting lost in plumber maze of info. I went 'shopping' online to get a visual, then checked mine downstairs - I don't have one installed. I think I can fix that though! There's an abandoned pipe that is coming in from outside but it was cut off about 4' above the sump pit, and the drain pipe is being redirected from a very rusty looking pump straight into the sewer pipes - which is not to code, right? Tsk Tsk. I'll cut that off, replace the pump, pipe into a check valve and reconnect to the outside. And good copy on that 45 downward angle! Under the check valve! Thank you So much!! LOL Just need to nerve up now!

They are just SLA (sealed lead acid) batteries. The type of SLA batteries are AGM in this setup. Hope this helps!

@@SamsDIY thanks just got mine installed yesterday …mind recommending any racks because I have failed to find anything

CO detectors? I have them all over the house, I've honestly never had an issue. I would've liked to get it a little further out, but ended up keeping it tight to the deck.

Carbon dioxide really isn't an issue. Plants love it.

I use a 3 position changeover switch to switch between grid, generator, and batteries/inverter. That goes into my 10 circuit sub panel with an interlock so I can't backfeed into the main panel or grid.

I use rock wool because I get it for free from work, and since this video I have added another 4 inches of Rockwool between studs. So that's 8 inches of Rockwool, I can barely tell it's on unless I'm right next to it. Thank you for the comment, and good luck!

Just a few coats of high heat black! Lol.

@@SamsDIY ok ty. I'm making one now cause of this

It is insulated with 4 inch thick rigid rock wool, but I haven't had time to add the rest in between the studs also.

It's just a single transfer switch to a sub panel with all 10 circuits, so I can only do all circuits on genny or batteries.

@@SamsDIY thanks, I appreciate your response!

Thank you!

Wow that's a lot of power! With (2) 290w panels it will charge roughly 20-25% per day for both batteries, so I guess 50% per battery per day. More solar is needed but I use it leisurely. Run it for 36-48 hours, charge for a few days, rinse and repeat.

@@SamsDIY Yes, I thank Eversource for those rates. We're barely using any power here, other than my home office which runs ~300W-800W continuous. The HVAC died, so that saved us about 8kW/day, the rest is just the highly efficient appliances.

Thanks a lot!

I never made a schematic but I took a bunch of pictures through the whole process. I need to start editing my videos they'd be a lot better lol.

You said it!!

Thank you!

I have a small muffler clamp holding the adapter onto the genny exhaust, and it's separated from the rest of the exhaust and attached with a flexible clamp. The generator itself has rubber pads and it super heavy, it has never moved on me.

Mine doesn't move at all, but if you're having problems with that you could drill a hole in each of the rubber vibration dampener feet, and put a couple concrete anchors in and maybe you could anchor down the feet and still get a tool back in there to reattach the feet to the genny, or vice versa, attach to genny first and then thread bolts into anchors if there's more wrench room that way.