Rayburn & UPS (oil burning stove & boiler Q)

[marshalla]

We had a power cut last night (no PH access for 4 hours - argh!) and it stopped our oil-burning Rayburn working too since it uses electrickery for the timer and ignition - no heat for cooking, HW or CH (yes, yes - should've gone solid fuel but Jeeves refuses to stoke it when we're at work).

It set me thinking - is it possible to connect a UPS in circuit so that we can at least get the b*gg*r started as a cooker and to heat the room that it lives in if this happens in the future ? AFAIK It only needs a 13A circuit for the control and ignition circuit.

[fatboy b]

marshalla said:

We had a power cut last night (no PH access for 4 hours - argh!) and it stopped our oil-burning Rayburn working too since it uses electrickery for the timer and ignition - no heat for cooking, HW or CH (yes, yes - should've gone solid fuel but Jeeves refuses to stoke it when we're at work).

It set me thinking - is it possible to connect a UPS in circuit so that we can at least get the b*gg*r started as a cooker and to heat the room that it lives in if this happens in the future ? AFAIK It only needs a 13A circuit for the control and ignition circuit.

also has an oil pump AFAIK

[andy43]

If there's an oil pump as well as the CH circ pump, plus a couple of zone valves, max total can't be more than a couple of hundred watts? A chunky UPS for a server should cope for a couple of hours (or pay Jeeves extra callout rates for overnight?)

[marshalla]

Sooo - it might be possible then? Nice. I don't even really need it to run the water pump and valve - just to fire up the cooker side so we can have some hot food and keep a couple of rooms warm if it happens again.

[stuttgartmetal]

A UPS is a glam name for a battery really.
Consider how much power it needs to run the pump, then add in a suitably sized UPS maybe ?

[catso]

A small generator might be a better option - and you get another internal combustion engine to play with.