daugen
Epic Contributor
good morning all. Up early, heading out in an hour with rv to alignment shop almost 60 miles away, only place who will work on my rv.
Hopefully the trip will be worth it, am wondering if my local shop spun balanced the tires with those huge chrome/stainless hubcaps taken off, and
when they put them back on, it threw off the tire balance. I sure know I can't go down the road with a front end shimmy, bye bye tires.
Inside California's power shutoff: No traffic lights and days of darkness - CNN
Reality has finally hit my sister in Muir Beach. She moved out yesterday to a friends house in San Francisco that had power. I sent them even more info on generators,
including the link to generatorsdirect.com. Rick, they are trying to charge her 15 grand labor to install 5k worth of parts in a simple residential propane setup.
Once you get above 22kw and get into car motors instead of lawn mower engines, the price triples. My oldest brother has a 70Kw unit and you bet that was more expensive.
I think he wasted a lot of money buying such a big generator, plus he will never give it enough load.
I run a three hvac house off 22kw gen, you just have to shed nonessential load, which is super easy to do, or relays do it automatically.
It takes these folks no more than two days to install the gen. How much should an electrician charge for 16 hours work? How about 200 an hour? That's $3200 labor, and I'm allowing 5k..........Lot of electricians gouging like mad out there. Since both I and my sister have/had the exact same gen before, installed by an electrician, and paid no more than 11K, quoting 20-22K is simply outrageous.
61 going up to 73 today, cloudy, just marvelous to work outside in this weather
Hopefully the trip will be worth it, am wondering if my local shop spun balanced the tires with those huge chrome/stainless hubcaps taken off, and
when they put them back on, it threw off the tire balance. I sure know I can't go down the road with a front end shimmy, bye bye tires.
Inside California's power shutoff: No traffic lights and days of darkness - CNN
Reality has finally hit my sister in Muir Beach. She moved out yesterday to a friends house in San Francisco that had power. I sent them even more info on generators,
including the link to generatorsdirect.com. Rick, they are trying to charge her 15 grand labor to install 5k worth of parts in a simple residential propane setup.
Once you get above 22kw and get into car motors instead of lawn mower engines, the price triples. My oldest brother has a 70Kw unit and you bet that was more expensive.
I think he wasted a lot of money buying such a big generator, plus he will never give it enough load.
I run a three hvac house off 22kw gen, you just have to shed nonessential load, which is super easy to do, or relays do it automatically.
It takes these folks no more than two days to install the gen. How much should an electrician charge for 16 hours work? How about 200 an hour? That's $3200 labor, and I'm allowing 5k..........Lot of electricians gouging like mad out there. Since both I and my sister have/had the exact same gen before, installed by an electrician, and paid no more than 11K, quoting 20-22K is simply outrageous.
61 going up to 73 today, cloudy, just marvelous to work outside in this weather
