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43 and a half hours without power...
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 16:44:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:38 PM, wrote: On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 11:40:51 -0800 (PST), True North wrote: That was my general emergency plan. A small space heater and if needed something to keep the sump pump working. It seems ironic to use a generator to make electric heat when you are usually throwing away more heat from the engine than the generator can produce. That is why I was thinking about scavenging some of that waste heat to heat water. If you had a bigger, water cooled gen set that would be trivial to do. Maybe but conservation of energy isn't exactly the primary concern when you only have to use a back up system once every five or six years or so and only for a few days. In my case it was that my generator would not even run the water heater with everything else off. It was just frustrating that I was wasting all of this heat when I had the perfect place to use it. If I ever have to do this again I think I would wire my elements in series and let it just loaf along at ~1.1 KW until the tank was hot. I am still not sure why it would not work wired normally. It is only supposed to be 4.3KW. I must have still had something going. |
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