Y'all are going to a lot of work to hook up your "temporary" power source.
Put a 220 Volt dryer plug on your generator leads. Set your generator to
220 volt. When the electricity go of, hit your main breaker, unplug your
dryer, plug your generator into the dryer receptacle and you're off and
running. With the main breaker off, you aren't going to electrocute the
lineman and as long as the breaker for the dryer is on, all current from the
generator goes through the main panel.
Ted
Ted Hils
Ted's Trucks 'N Stuff
RR 2 Box 66H
Midland City, Al 36350
334-983-1092
Mon.- Fri., 8-5 CST
----- Original Message -----
From: <M35products@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] PE95 G Gen set and power to house
> In a message dated 11/1/01 10:24:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> aussierob@odyssey.net writes:
>
> <<
> For those few wealthy do gooders who have recently written to the
message
> boards, ...why don't you try this sometime.
> Turn your heat and water off for a day ! Then you will view that little
> Electric Meter Seal quite differently.
> Unless, of course, you're a high paid person with a fat bank account that
> can afford to rip your house apart mid winter to replace several frozen
> burst pipes ...Remember, that is, all for the sanctity of preserving the
> little meter seal. As for me and my family I chose heat .
>
> >>
>
> Gosh, now I'm a "wealthy do-gooder" and/or a "High paid person with a fat
> bank account".
>
> For the record, I'm not either of the above, thank-you, although I do
> occasionally have a thirst for the luxuries, you know, potatoes, toilet
> paper, soap. I am not rich, I own one necktie and one suit, and I have
scars
> on most of my remaining fingers.
>
> Additionally, let me tell you that living on an island in the North
Atlantic
> does offer some interesting surprises, from an electrical outage
standpoint.
> We are "serviced" by LIPA in the same sense, apparently, that a bull
services
> a cow. LIPA stands for Long Island Power Authority, a government agency
that
> is just as corrupt and inefficient as the agency to which it is the
> successor: the Long Island Lighting Company, which was essentially put
out
> of business by the feds because they were convicted under the RICO
statutes,
> usually reserved for the Mafia and similar crime syndicates.
>
> Only a fool would live here without a standby generator. In the last
year,
> my house has lost commercial power for a total of ten days, (on one
occasion,
> for three days straight) Only a fool, however, would pay "$1500" for a
> transfer switch. (Last time I checked, they were about $250 wholesale)
Only a
> fool would accuse someone whom they had never met of all the things that I
> have been accused of. Only a fool would put his family in jeopardy by
using
> an unorthodox, if not illegal, scheme to provide juice.
>
> I applaude the ingenuity of anyone who can figure out how to get his house
> back up under trying circumstances. It is in the finest military
tradition,
> in fact: "Adapt, improvise, overcome" However, the gentleman who
criticizes
> my heritage, income, education, credentials, perceived motives, and
probably
> my mother's virtue, failed to see the difference between pre-planned
lunacy
> and field expedience under emergency circumstances.
>
> Oh yes, I forgot to remind you...I'm also the S**T head who, with no
motive
> other than protecting my brethren from bodily injury, warned them about
> electric winches. I seem to recall that I was chastised for that
> transgression, too. This list certainly has opened my eyes to the human
> capacity for over-reaction, to say the least.
>
> Good bye.
>
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