Running my central heating off a UPS

[Spanky]

Now then, I was one of the cnuts who had his electricity supply go down for over 30 hours this weekend.
I was wondering how feasible it would be to stick an off-the-shelf UPS in line with my boiler. It draws no more than 80W. So with a 1000VA UPS with a power factor of 0.6 it'd run for perhaps seven and a hour hours I think.

Would this work, or am I nuts?

 

[Blinky]

Interesting idea. Just wondering about whether you have a separate circulation pump as you'd need that to too (thats how it is in my house - its in the airing cupboard). Might depend on your setup though.

 

[Spanky]

There's no separate pump, it's just a two-bedroom flat.

 

[thegreathopper]

Yes it would work, sounds like you have a combi boiler, your heating system including room stat will all be powered from the spur next to your boiler.

Pretty simple to do

 

[Blinky]

Would be very interested to know how well it works if you go for it. Good luck!🙂

 

[Bods]

I had a UPS I got free when first on the internet and had it powering the PC, speakers etc as I was never off the internet then, it used to be permanently downloading stuff, all the time I had it, never had a power cut had a few before though as you'd expect