A little help from the Canucks
Jet stream is weirding out..... our left coast is about 25C warmer than the right side.......
Rgds, D.
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Jet stream is weirding out..... our left coast is about 25C warmer than the right side.......
Rgds, D.
Being able to use shop air is nicer. The one I have is not that old, but I had a fight with the hand pump last time...... cold out, so I didn't spend the time to take apart a cylinder loaded with oil to check seals......
Shop-air + venturi....... used to use one at my buddy's commercial shop - great for oil changes, and evacuating trani pans before dropping them.
Esp. on something w/o a filter, pulling the drain plug on occasion would help me sleep better too....
Rgds, D.
grsthegreat
Super Star Member
OMG..... another stupid outage at 7:40 am. This is like the 6th time this year. Absolutely no wind, sunny day.
the poor genny is sure getting a workout this year.
but after breakfast I’ll be shutting it down manually. I’ll be out chipping downed trees from last wind storm.
the poor genny is sure getting a workout this year.
but after breakfast I’ll be shutting it down manually. I’ll be out chipping downed trees from last wind storm.
PILOON
Super Star Member
"Wind picked up from out of Canada. Power just went out. That’s like the 4th time in 2 months. At this rate I don’t ever need to exercise my generator"
Your lucky, only 4 in 2 months!
Where I am we seem to average more than that.
Last one lasted 11 hours or so.
But then my 1000 watt genny started just fine and we sat back and watched TV and the phone system was not down this time.
Due for an oil change, on the 'to do' list.
A lot of our power lines run thru forested areas hence the frequent outages.
The line clearing crews work 'by the book' and won't cut a 60 ft tree that is outside of the hydro right of way, to the point that they actually use a transit to determine the 25 ft right of way.
Worst yet is the cut, slash and leave all there mess for U to clean up.
My genny has a permanent 'keeper' connected so It always starts when needed.
It is stationed in my wood shed alongside of the concrete foundation so we don't even hear it when running, but neighbors do however unless theirs are also running.
Good news is Hydro have been walking all our lines and we are hopeful that they might be moved out to roadside.
Your lucky, only 4 in 2 months!
Where I am we seem to average more than that.
Last one lasted 11 hours or so.
But then my 1000 watt genny started just fine and we sat back and watched TV and the phone system was not down this time.
Due for an oil change, on the 'to do' list.
A lot of our power lines run thru forested areas hence the frequent outages.
The line clearing crews work 'by the book' and won't cut a 60 ft tree that is outside of the hydro right of way, to the point that they actually use a transit to determine the 25 ft right of way.
Worst yet is the cut, slash and leave all there mess for U to clean up.
My genny has a permanent 'keeper' connected so It always starts when needed.
It is stationed in my wood shed alongside of the concrete foundation so we don't even hear it when running, but neighbors do however unless theirs are also running.
Good news is Hydro have been walking all our lines and we are hopeful that they might be moved out to roadside.
daugen
Super Member
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I don't think Generac has anything to worry about here but Ford is touting their new
all electric Lightning truck as having significant automatic home backup capability
My generator pulls 10,000 pounds and has air bags and a 13 speaker stereo.
What does yours have?...
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I don't think Generac has anything to worry about here but Ford is touting their new
all electric Lightning truck as having significant automatic home backup capability
My generator pulls 10,000 pounds and has air bags and a 13 speaker stereo.
What does yours have?...
Here’s How You Can Use the Ford F-150 Lightning to Power Your Home in the Event of a Power Outage
The Ford F-150 Lightning changes the game for Ford. Here's how one of its more interesting features works.
Really expensive way to power your house, but if you needed one more checkbox to convince the CFO/SWMBO.....
Gayle posted an interesting recent Lightning vid in his EV thread, from that Lars guy (Denmark IIRC). Raises some interesting points, both technical and business related.
Myself, I'll be sticking with fossil fuel backups, for the foreseeable future.
Rgds, D.
daugen
Super Member
some big tree must have gone down, enough for 163 PECO customers to be out yesterday afternoon, nice that I can track it on map.
They came back on about ten minutes before estimated fix time, about three hours total.
fired up the gen, flipped the breaker for the electric hot water heater, and then threw the interlock breaker.
Handled my two ton a/c easily but geez is it noisy. I need to go back and read about some of the noise attenuating fixes you guys have done, there's lots
of examples on this site. Going to check the oil today but I doubt it used anything on its first run after changing to synthetic oil.
But shame on me if I don't check...
Had something silly happen during this, could not figure out why kitchen appliances wouldn't work whether on gen or utility power.
Light bulb went on, pun intended, and I checked the kitchen gfi's, both were tripped I guess from the surges.
Honeywell should come up with a quieter muffler and package it as some luxury option and charge a hundred bucks for it.
I'd pay...this gen compared to my old inverter gen is a roaring racket maker.
They came back on about ten minutes before estimated fix time, about three hours total.
fired up the gen, flipped the breaker for the electric hot water heater, and then threw the interlock breaker.
Handled my two ton a/c easily but geez is it noisy. I need to go back and read about some of the noise attenuating fixes you guys have done, there's lots
of examples on this site. Going to check the oil today but I doubt it used anything on its first run after changing to synthetic oil.
But shame on me if I don't check...
Had something silly happen during this, could not figure out why kitchen appliances wouldn't work whether on gen or utility power.
Light bulb went on, pun intended, and I checked the kitchen gfi's, both were tripped I guess from the surges.
Honeywell should come up with a quieter muffler and package it as some luxury option and charge a hundred bucks for it.
I'd pay...this gen compared to my old inverter gen is a roaring racket maker.
grsthegreat
Super Star Member
Problem is air cooled unit like air flow. Enclosures block air flow. Adding mufflers restrict exhausts and can damage engines not designed for a muffler.
personally I’d rather have noise than darkness.
personally I’d rather have noise than darkness.
Sawyer Rob
Super Member
A couple weeks ago, my power was out for most of a day... After a while I started my little Honda 2000 and plugged a few things into it, letting it run for the day.
Turns out the yuppie that bought some land down the road from me, hit a pole while putting in a new driveway for his coming "mc-mansion" and broke it off... Of course, he proclaimed it all happened because the pole was "rotten", not because he hit it with a dozer! ha ha ha
BTW, the power company guy told me, I'm not buying that story... lol
SO, another corn field turned into a lawn....why can't the townies just stay in town!!
SR
Turns out the yuppie that bought some land down the road from me, hit a pole while putting in a new driveway for his coming "mc-mansion" and broke it off... Of course, he proclaimed it all happened because the pole was "rotten", not because he hit it with a dozer! ha ha ha
BTW, the power company guy told me, I'm not buying that story... lol
SO, another corn field turned into a lawn....why can't the townies just stay in town!!
SR
