No power

[wmah]

It has been around 10 years since we had a storm take down trees in the yard. That time it happened you couldn't find a store with ice. We had no power for only 3 days. I ended up being a good time to clean the refrigerator out. I did move a lot of the stuff to the chest freezer right next to the refrigerator and over that 3 day period I ended up freezing the milk in there with no power. I guess there is a benefit of never thawing the thing out and keeping it full.

No things would be different since I have a couple generators now and one being a Honda 2000 so I would be very good off until some john doe sees it running and decides to cut the lock of the thing and take it for them selves.

[lapeer20m]

our power was out at my house the other day too. I used the inverter on the bus to run the referigerator for a few hours before i decided i better dig out the geni and start her up. I have a cheap home depot 6kw geni i bought years ago for my first bus. She's noisy, and consumes 1/2 gallon/hr, but she'll run the entire house, except for the a/c unit. 6kw is more than 50 amps, i don't understand why i can't get the compressor on the a/c unit to fire up...oh well.

i had a honda eu2k, but i sold it this past winter when i wasn't working...i really needed the money. sold it for almost as much as i paid for it originally.

[paul iossi]

when I was doing standby power we alwas sized generators at 3 times the max running load of the largest motor to be started and then added all the other running loads.