UPS for Whitfield Advantage Insert

[hamhock75]

Earlier this year I bought a used Whitfield WP2 Advantage Insert without the igniter. It works well but I soon discovered that the power only needs to go off briefly to turn the unit off. I tried my APC BN450M 450VA/255W UPS but it did not work.

After reading this thread,

Thread 'Electrical Consumption of Pellet Stoves'

Jan 31, 2011

Have you ever wondered how much power (watts) your pellet stove uses, or how much energy (kWh) it consumes, or how much it actually costs you on your electric bill to run it for the season? I measured the electricity consumption of several pellet stoves with a P3 Kill A Watt meter and found they average between about 125 Watts to 150 Watts instantaneous power draw depending on the auger and blower settings.

Here's some actual numbers from a 20+ year old Whitfield Advantage II T Insert. During the monitoring period of approximately 2 weeks the stove was running 24 hours a day, only being...

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I bought a GoldenMate UPS off Amazon for $159. It works great. After charging it, I ran the Whitfield on medium settings for 1.5 hours. The charge indicator dropped from 5 to 3 bars in that time. It has power indicator that confirmed the power consumption found in the above thread. Power use was between 75-120 watts. Most of the time it was around 100 watts.

https://www.amazon.com/GOLDENMATE-8...CZBBDRV54JB&ref_=ci_mcx_mi&tag=snxs48-20&th=1