On 12/16/14 4:35 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/16/14 2:55 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/16/14 4:50 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
Keyser Söze;1022214 Wrote:
....of the winter season. Not snowing, not raining, not sleeting, not
even very cold. Off now for 23 minutes. Maybe someone hit a power pole
on the main drag... Generator kicked on.


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Well, its nice that you have the generator as a backup. I use my Honda
EU2000i whenever my power goes out. It will run what I need to keep
running. Living in a condo so no way to put up a permanent generator. If
I ever get another house I will get a fixed permanent generator.




Power was out for an hour...I didn't investigate but I suspect tree limbs
falling on a power line.


An hour and you needed a generator?


Automatic transfer switch and start-up, Bilious. If the utility power
goes out for more than a short interval, the generator takes over and
when the utility power comes back on, the generator shuts itself down.
Surely such setups exist out there on the left coast.


Hell, we rarely lose power where I live. Underground utilities, and no
friggen snow. Last big power outage was a few years ago. Last time we had
big rains and the transformer at the bottom of the hill blew.


We have underground utils on our street, but the larger streets coming
from the power company substations have power poles and wires and
usually in a storm a tree or a tree limb will knock down wires. The
power company doesn't do enough to trim down trees and branches close to
its wires. $$$.



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