On 1/6/2018 2:40 PM, True North wrote:
On Saturday, 6 January 2018 14:59:59 UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/6/2018 1:34 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/6/2018 1:11 PM, True North wrote:
On Saturday, 6 January 2018 11:42:35 UTC-4, justanÂ* wrote:
True North Wrote in message:
Now I'm ready to move on one of those Honda 2000 generators.
Contacted both local dealerships and all 1000 and 2000 model
generators were sold before I got there.Â* D'oh.

Shipments on way from Montreal.Â* These models are costly here...a
hair over 1K for the smaller unit and just over 1.3K for the 2000
plus HST and a PDI and freight charge of $75.00.Â* Outrageous...first
that crap started with cars and then new boats.Â* Now on generators??

By the way it was just below 45 degrees F inside our house this
morning.
No country for girliemen Jack Goff.


Bundle up real good. Have you put a deposit on a genset yet?
Â* Better yet prepay for one and go to the head of the line. How is
Â* your house heated? Please don't say elec. Have you protected your
Â* pipes from freezing? How about your heating system? Watch out for
Â* spoiled food in your freezer and fridge. Hopefully you are
Â* keeping your dog warm.
Good luck, buddy.
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Oops..meant to say we were back on power when I sent that message.
Just work up from a snooze on the reclining chair...all this heat is
getting to me.
We actually lost power early in the storm at 1505hrs on Thursday
afternoon. Power company arrived quick enough..but only to secure the
wire knocked down by a large tree branch a few hundred feet up the
street. It took a full 24 hours for the city crew to show up to cut
the big hanging tree limb down and then 3 power company trucks show up
at 0720hrs this morning. Took them about 4 hours to fix whatever had
to be fixed in very cold windy weather. I'm still waiting to see how
our tropical fish fare.Â* Spring Spaniel great but we put ont one of
his jackets this morning. It was getting real cold inside and out.Â* We
do have electric baseboard heating. Thought it was a good clean,
relatively cheap conversion from the former oil furnace (converted
from coal in 1959) that only send warm air upwards through a floor
grate in our entrance hallway. House built during WW2 and guy who
owned it was tight with a dollar.
Anyway, all is good now but after losing power to a fallen limb and
then Hurricane Juan back in 2003 and then this weeks storm, if may be
time to prepare better....especially since winds keep getting
stronger. (there's your Global Warming at work).
As far as the generator, I want something that is easilt transported.
The ones left at the dealership were big and expensive..and heavy.
One 2800w model roughly the same price as the 2000I weighed almost
twice as much. Can't rely on the wife to carry her end on something
like that anymore.



If you are looking for emergency heat, the smaller Hondas (e-2000i)
isn't for you.Â* If you have electric heat it's probably 240 volts which
the smaller Honda's don't produce.Â* You need something much bigger.


The little Honda works fine on a oil furnace.Â* All it has to do is run
the oil pump (probably an amp or less) and either a squirrel cage fan
(if forced air) or a circulating pump (if hot water baseboard).Â*Â* Mine
ran the oil heating system in the big, 8,000 sq ft house we used to have
with no problem.Â* It was baseboard, hot water heat.



Forgot ... you could run a 1500 watt space heater off the little Honda,
but that will draw about 12.5 amps from the little Honda. The e-2000i
is rated for 1800 watts continuous and 2000 watts peak. Plus, a 1500
watt space heater isn't going to heat much.

That was my general emergency plan. A small space heater and if needed something to keep the sump pump working. I was getting nervous Thursday night before the big temperature change. We received maybe a millimeter of snow and right away the high winds and heavy rain. I was down late that night using my hand bilge pump to take a dozen buckets of water out of the sump pump hole and carrying same over to a set tub to dump. I'd also like to keep the tropical fish warm. Right now the big alga eater is hugging up to the tube type aquarium heater. The last couple of days he's been hiding under his rock as the water temp got down to about 18C despite me heating pots full on our camp stove and carefully adding into the tank. I also gave them the last of our hot water from the 40 gal electric tank.


A small inverter and your boat battery will take care of the fish. :-)