Your last generator Maintenance Run

[Rustyiron]

My welder doubles as my generator so I guess this counts.

Went out to start a new project tonight, only been about two weeks since I last welded so not long. Oil and air filter looked fine from the inspection panel so I hit the start button. Chicken feathers, dry grass, lint, pieces of paper and cardboard started flying out of every opening from the control panel to the exhaust. Near as I can tell a mouse built a nest right on the cooling fan.

Hope he was in it!

:laughing: I get that flying out of my log splitter outside, inside the shop, from the step belts on top of my drillpress.:laughing:

I'm up to 50 hours now on the generator for this outage. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day we're back on the grid.

 

[3930dave]

:laughing: I get that flying out of my log splitter outside, inside the shop, from the step belts on top of my drillpress.:laughing:

I'm up to 50 hours now on the generator for this outage. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day we're back on the grid.

Should be warmed up now

If you have even an approx. total when this is all over, post up how much fuel you used..... Inquiring Minds et al hang out on TBN

Rgds, D.

 

[groundcover]

Should start a pool on Rustys fuel usage for this storm ! Put me down for 38 gallons.

 

[LouNY]

Well, let's see I believe he has a 20KW not working real hard,
should be around 0.4 gallon per hour, so over 50 hours.
Be 20 gallons but that seems small so I'd guesstimate 30 gallons.

 

[Rustyiron]

Well when its over I'll measure and have to do the math. No guage and I'm not going to call for fuel for around 30 gallons. I peeked into the fill pipe late yesterday and guessed that it was down about 3-4" from where I THINK it was, so it will be a rough estimate for consumption.
Meter is still out this morning.
I'm hanging around for the "cable guy" all day. After 10 years, we're actually getting a wire (big fat coax:cool2 hooked to our place. 4 poles along the road with 7 more down my lane with another 250 feet in a spare conduit I put in from the last pole to the house. With a $8000 construction credit for business acct. my end is $1450.
If your on satellite internet, you know how eager I was to spend that for real, not affected by the weather internet service. :thumbsup:

 

[groundcover]

Well when its over I'll measure and have to do the math. No guage and I'm not going to call for fuel for around 30 gallons. I peeked into the fill pipe late yesterday and guessed that it was down about 3-4" from where I THINK it was, so it will be a rough estimate for consumption.
Meter is still out this morning.
I'm hanging around for the "cable guy" all day. After 10 years, we're actually getting a wire (big fat coax:cool2 hooked to our place. 4 poles along the road with 7 more down my lane with another 250 feet in a spare conduit I put in from the last pole to the house. With a $8000 construction credit for business acct. my end is $1450.
If your on satellite internet, you know how eager I was to spend that for real, not affected by the weather internet service. :thumbsup:

You have the sweetest backup system yet !
We got about the same as you, depending on where in town you measured. Had a lot of trees / wires calls and a good number of residents without power. We blinked a few times but never went out . Had a lot that also lost phone / DSL , that's unusual for us. We are in the process of connecting everyone in town with fiber, quite a process for a rural community.
The power loss doesn't have the impact it used to as most people now have generators but the internet going down really rattles them !
We have a large summer population and have seen quite an influx of them bugging out of the city to wait out the pandemic.
Have a guy that had to go back to the city because without internet he couldn't do zoom meetings for work. His wife said the house was freezing even though they hav a 22 kw generator, turns out Nest thermostats need internet !

 

[psvfd]

:laughing: I get that flying out of my log splitter outside, inside the shop, from the step belts on top of my drillpress.:laughing:

That is why I leave to top of drill press open, seems mice do not build nest where it is open. Here that is!

 

[Rustyiron]

That is why I leave to top of drill press open, seems mice do not build nest where it is open. Here that is!

Oh heck yeah, I learned that after the 2nd or 3rd time I had pink insulation come flying out :laughing:

 

[psvfd]

Mentioned Brian Johnson (AC/DC) to one of the guys at our shop recently........ Brian commented on the irony, that his hearing problems most likely came from all the loud/fast cars he's had.

On-stage, he likely would have been wearing high-end sound limiting monitors. Fast cars.... just too much fun :laughing:.

Rgds, D.

Never was around cars that were loud. In the shop that was lathes, and diesel mechanics (Detroit Diesel dealer). Got loud most days, only thing between mechanics machinist was a rack for round cold roll and boat propeller shaft material. Detroit never like that, too much dust to be rebuilding engines. They would test run the engines outside but it was still loud. No muffler and no warning before they ran them. Did not run very long but loud.

 

[grsthegreat]

You have the sweetest backup system yet !
We got about the same as you, depending on where in town you measured. Had a lot of trees / wires calls and a good number of residents without power. We blinked a few times but never went out . Had a lot that also lost phone / DSL , that's unusual for us. We are in the process of connecting everyone in town with fiber, quite a process for a rural community.
The power loss doesn't have the impact it used to as most people now have generators but the internet going down really rattles them !
We have a large summer population and have seen quite an influx of them bugging out of the city to wait out the pandemic.
Have a guy that had to go back to the city because without internet he couldn't do zoom meetings for work. His wife said the house was freezing even though they hav a 22 kw generator, turns out Nest thermostats need internet !

Ha. Never liked nest spying equipment and the fact that they fail without internet is priceless info. I mean really, who needs a thermostat that complicated. I use a standard programable thermostat. It keeps house comfortable.