Good Morning.
55 with partly cloudy skies, a high of 75 with 0% POP for today.
Another great day to be outside.
Yesterday didn’t follow the plan very well. It started with breakfast with the professor, filled the Prius with gas on the way home, as it said it had 8 miles till empty. Then off to Costco with the wife. When we got back, part for generator was there, so I installed it, and the generator works just like new.
But here is where things went off the rails. The transfer switch didn’t survive the lightning strike, and it is a 40 year old Onan switch. It’s infinitely better made than a new Generac switch, so I hate to replace it with one, plus that would be a fair amount of work. So I’m likely going bypass the fried controls and make it work with the signal voltage from the generator. Did some head scratching and exploring, and decided how I can do it, but haven’t done it yet.
I got called to attend factory training for the Wille 865 that the airport purchased, as the airport manager was sick and couldn’t make it.
It’s a pretty amazing and versatile machine, we got the 14’ plow, snow blower, rear sweeper and turbine blower for it. Should make short work of snow removal.
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That took until 6pm, then had to hightail it home and get the sandblast mask cut out on the plotter that I had promised to get done. Once that was running, I revisited the generator to formulate the plan to get the control wiring from the generator to the transfer switch in the house, I’ll need that regardless which path I follow on the switch.
Got the mask all cut, the rock man came and picked it up, i called it a day.
This morning is another trip to Martha’s Vineyard, I will execute the wiring plan when I get back, I’m going to try to squeeze some work on Drew’s motor home in as well. At least I’m rarely bored.
And the silver lining in the storm cloud was that I talked to the insurance adjuster about my lighting damage, and making all the repairs myself. He was fine with that, and offered to use my labor to cover the deductible. That was totally unexpected, I was prepared for them to deny the claim.
