Your last generator Maintenance Run

[Industrial Toys]

I remember years ago driving north of Kitchener (Ont) through Mennonite country one winter night. Eerie. No yard lights and just very dim light coming from houses and barns. Really like traveling back in time a few hundred years.

 

[ultrarunner]

PSPS ?

Rgds, D.

Power Safety Power Shutoff is the order to de-energize the grid to reduce the risk of fire.

It's becoming quite common when high wind and dry conditions are present such as the Paradise Fire...

 

[dragoneggs]

I do appreciate having a healthy gen around, but 24 hours straight is about my "old" limit for my current configuration.

Rgds, D.

What??? Com'n Dave... with all the royalties you should've collected from starting this thread, you must have upgraded by now! :laughing:

 

[3930dave]

What??? Com'n Dave... with all the royalties you should've collected from starting this thread, you must have upgraded by now! :laughing:

Laughing my you know what off........ :laughing:

I'd settle for 10cents/view !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

I remember years ago driving north of Kitchener (Ont) through Mennonite country one winter night. Eerie. No yard lights and just very dim light coming from houses and barns. Really like traveling back in time a few hundred years.

Great for amateur astronomy !

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Power Safety Power Shutoff is the order to de-energize the grid to reduce the risk of fire.

It's becoming quite common when high wind and dry conditions are present such as the Paradise Fire...

Thnx ur, I had read about the practice in the news, but forgot the acronym..... just more Demand Creation for generators......

Rgds, D.

 

[ultrarunner]

^^^ Yep... generator sales are humming along... several new installs each month among my co-workers...

Tesla Power Walls and similar are also in short supply.

 

[3930dave]

^^^ Yep... generator sales are humming along... several new installs each month among my co-workers...

Tesla Power Walls and similar are also in short supply.

You have a couple of generators available, but with that last (PV panel) property, I'd be watching for for Island capable inverters. Grid-tie is convenient and should be good $ value, but, that's predicated on a high-availability grid.

IDK how accurate/stable a generator would need to be to convince a non-Island-capable inverter that the grid is up (just thinking out loud, and of course, this would be electrically separated from the grid.....). With a couple of kw+ of PV available during the day, idling a small gen to define "grid" might be an appealing work-around.

Rgds, D.

 

[ultrarunner]

It's a thought that has crossed my mind...

My Inverter is 12+ years old and when the day comes to replace it would be nice to improve... generator would need to be a 220 volt so simulate utility so my little fuel sipping Honda is out.

Labor day I did use the A/C... set it to 78 and let it run for 24 hours for the first time... it was 102 outside and almost as hot leading up to Labor Day... so everything had warmed to the touch... (one hot day comes and goes but several in a row just warms up everything when it is still 85 at 4 am)

Even with my Solar I ended up using 54 kW of grid power... roughly $20 to maintain 78-80 inside for the day... without A/C I am always a net producer of electricity.

I've not set up a generator transfer switch because I don't want to overlook something and find the hard way they solar, grid and generator don't place nice...

 

[3930dave]

It's a thought that has crossed my mind...

My Inverter is 12+ years old and when the day comes to replace it would be nice to improve... generator would need to be a 220 volt so simulate utility so my little fuel sipping Honda is out.

Labor day I did use the A/C... set it to 78 and let it run for 24 hours for the first time... it was 102 outside and almost as hot leading up to Labor Day... so everything had warmed to the touch... (one hot day comes and goes but several in a row just warms up everything when it is still 85 at 4 am)

Even with my Solar I ended up using 54 kW of grid power... roughly $20 to maintain 78-80 inside for the day... without A/C I am always a net producer of electricity.

I've not set up a generator transfer switch because I don't want to overlook something and find the hard way they solar, grid and generator don't place nice...

Wow. Long way from Mark Twain's line about the coldest he'd ever been was a summer day in SF.....

Wise...... proper isolation is critical. Right way to do it is code-spec installed transfer switch and an island-capable inverter with an appropriate battery bank. Not a good idea to turn the avg. consumer (not that I put you, or most folks who hang out here, in that category) loose with anything less.

Years back, a co-worker moved to Phoenix. Later, he commented how expensive it was to have Canadian friends staying with him - he found out quick how spendy it was to have his house lower than 80F - he'd acclimated by that point, but visiting Canucks thought they were melting.......

Crazy (dangerous fire) pics in the news from your coast...... wishing safer days ahead for all.

Rgds, D.