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Power failures
BirdDog wrote:One thing to do this on the hush but to publicly post it is not something I would do. I'm pretty certain doing it can get you in a LOT of trouble in many places if ever caught or especially if something serious results.
I'm sure you'll want to tell me I'm wrong now.
Well, I hope you're wrong. I haven't heard of anyone being sued for posting instructions on how to do something on the internet, but I've been wrong before. I hope not anyway, otherwise we are all in danger of a law suit by giving any sort of advice here.
BTW I took great pains to make the instructions as safe as possible, and I actually didn't think of this idea first, I got most of it from an old retired Navy diving instructor. Is he liable also? Until recently he was still teaching scuba diving. Would he be liable if one of his students was killed scuba diving later after completing his course? I'll probably see him later today and ask him.
Well, I'll think about some more. What a sorry world we live in, if one can so easily get in trouble for trying to help,
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
William Shakespeare
My nieghbor, who's a retired electrician has an extension cord hooked up to a sub panel in his garage looks a little hokey but I guess it works. Me and another nieghbor went over and dug his car out, helped him start his generator, i had to wade through waist deep snow from the street to the side of his house to shut off his main. He's disabled and on oxygen. he left for warmer climates until this latest storm blows over.
alfresco wrote:My nieghbor, who's a retired electrician has an extension cord hooked up to a sub panel in his garage looks a little hokey but I guess it works.
I did the same thing, until a friend of mine suggested that I hook a dryer receptacle to the subpanel out in the pole barn where the generator was located. I didn't have enough spare breakers to leave the generator hooked up all of the time, and I didn't like the idea of the generator being connected with the flick of a switch anyway, IMO the dryer receptacle made everything a lot easier and safer.
Waist deep snow? Our problem has been the heat. We just had over a week of near or over 90 degree temperatures. In the middle of February!
90? yikes, and high humidity no doubt. I prefer the cold.
I'm going to look in to getting a whole house generator, it looks like this summer we're going to have a lot of blackouts.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article225626075.html
alfresco wrote:90? yikes, and high humidity no doubt. I prefer the cold.
I'm going to look in to getting a whole house generator, it looks like this summer we're going to have a lot of blackouts.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article225626075.html
Over the last couple of weeks I must have seen this one Generac commercial a dozen times. I hadn't seen one in months, but this must be the time when people are starting to think about them more.
My brother has one at his house and loves it. I get free natural gas where I live due to a deal that was made with the gas company for running a main across the property. We have two gas wells within a very short distance of here (about 300 feet and 1500 feet), and the more distant one has the main running right under my front lawn. If I had one of those generators in natural gas I'd be doing just dandy if the power went out. Plus, with my house being very small and only needing a 10MBH window AC, I'd have no problem running everything off of a smaller one.
One of these days, perhaps. Until then I'll be roughing it. :p
