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[daugen]

at least my portable plugs into a 50 amp direct wired house connection, so if I turn off water heater, I can get by with
45 amps. No cords. But even having spent a lot of money on a high quality battery backed sump pump, if power is out more than an hour, I'm very
likely to go turn on gen. First I fire up the laptop to see what PECOs outage page looks like, how long they give for ETA.
It's almost all trees here, sometimes a whole lot of dead ash trees at once and not only is power down, but local roads are closed.

tree care is so expensive today folks just wait for dead trees to drop. Some are right over the main roads, I don't understand that.
those trees can be killers.
but I look out my window at solid woods and wouldn't have it any other way.
like water, I want to be near the water, not in the water.
I want to be near the trees, but none that can fall on me.

Diggin it, that area is so dry also. I put out a wet towel at the campground on an outside hook and an hour later
it was bone dry. Never saw anything like it, moisture just sucked out.
if I lived in that area, think I'd look for a cave
with a backup gen of course

 

[90cummins]

Nice load bank!!
I use a large 3 element that I use. Each element is switched desperately for a total of 9+-kw. If I need more load 1 have (3) 1.5kw heaters I can add.
I have the same PTO generator. It hadn’t seen much use but it’s on stand-by.
90cummins

 

[3930dave]

Diggin it, that area is so dry also. I put out a wet towel at the campground on an outside hook and an hour later
it was bone dry. Never saw anything like it, moisture just sucked out.
if I lived in that area, think I'd look for a cave
with a backup gen of course

It's hard to understand the dryness, till you are in it for a while.

People think they'll like mesh (well ventilated) motorcycle gear, in an area like that. Turns out (nothing free), that "coolness" when riding dehydrates you even faster - you have to compensate with higher water intake, or else....

There is a reason desert nomads dress the way they do....

Rgds, D.