orangejuiced86
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Power flickered at my house for a sec...
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Sledder
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Chelsea South of 94. Out since 8:30p last night. Outage map says back on early tomorrow morning. We’ll see.
WhiteHawk
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Driving through Grosse Pointe last night and there are still entire blocks without power. It is pretty ugly having no power when the temps are this cold. Looking at the outage map, it is probably going to be Monday before everyone gets power back - According to DTE at least. All those individual lines take a LONG time to repair.
Last time we had outages like this, I was living in Pontiac, and the power was out for almost two weeks. It was crazy.
-Geoff
Last time we had outages like this, I was living in Pontiac, and the power was out for almost two weeks. It was crazy.
-Geoff
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I really gotta get off my ass and figure out why my basically new dual fuel generator won't fire. I really don't want to run gas through it, and it won't fire up on Propane now. My guess is something went bad in the secondary regulator.
We luckily kept power, but being on a well I would have no water or anything.
We luckily kept power, but being on a well I would have no water or anything.
WhiteHawk
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I hear you on that procrastination. Mine was in may basement flood a couple summers ago and I still don't have it back together. I did buy a new carb for it though! When we had the ice storm, all I could think is that we would lose power and I would be getting "The Look" from my wife.
-Geoff
man, "the look" is the worst.
4Gas$
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My neighbor has this really nice new stand-by power generator ..........
just sitting in his pole barn! He hadn't gotten around to pouring the slab to mount it on!
WhiteHawk
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LOL, he is DEFINITELY getting the look from his wife. If he's single, he's going to be giving it to himself in a mirror.
-Geoff
1fstfox
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All it took was one time for my parents to have to empty their frig and freezer when they lost power when they were on vacation for 2 weeks. So once they got their new place all done the way they wanted they made the investment for the stand by generator. Things quiet as heck too. It does a "maintenance" start and idle every so often, the central air unit is louder than the generator.
4Gas$
Club Member
My other neighbor stopped by to help with my tree work & said his
mothers stand by generator did it's weekly "maintenance" start and idle
on Tuesday - then DIDN"T run after the power went off from the ice storm!
1fstfox
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That's never good news. I'm not familiar with the systems but I'm guessing it's possible to manual start/run them. But definitely needs to start automatically during a power loss.
I thought about it, but opted for a large 10kw portable. Reason being, the maintenance and complexity of the whole house, plus I am only on a 120 gallon propane tank and I was afraid it'd really just burn through that thing quickly. The portable I have required no permits and was much cheaper overall.
If I were on natural gas, I probably would have leaned towards a whole house generator.
If I were on natural gas, I probably would have leaned towards a whole house generator.
ultradriver10000
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The natural gas stand by units are just so much money... $4000-$5000 for just the unit, then the switch panel. My gas powered unit I back feed to the house was like $300 used and will power the water well, furnace, fridges, wifi and a computer and TV easily. I normally have plenty of fuel in the barn, so unless we need to run for several weeks we are ok. Only kicker would be if I'm out of town, the wife can't set it up.
4Gas$
Club Member
Those are the reasons I have a large portable with a direct back-feed to my fuse panel.
been using this set up for 23 years.
wrath
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For about $3500 you can get a natural gas/propane 10kw generator with a 200a smart automatic transfer switch (smart meaning it can tell your AC unit to turn off if frequency drops). It's kind of a bargain.
I have a bunch of generators. I mostly use my 7kw inverter generator these days. It's big enough to run the whole house (all electric) as long as no two big things are running at the same time (range and water heater for example). I recommend an ATS so you can go back to utility power as soon as you want instead of loading up your generator... regardless of whether you have a portable or standby generator. A non-service-rated 200a ATS is about $600. They also prevent stupid from happening.
I have a bunch of generators. I mostly use my 7kw inverter generator these days. It's big enough to run the whole house (all electric) as long as no two big things are running at the same time (range and water heater for example). I recommend an ATS so you can go back to utility power as soon as you want instead of loading up your generator... regardless of whether you have a portable or standby generator. A non-service-rated 200a ATS is about $600. They also prevent stupid from happening.