🚀 go-pugleaf

J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2018 22:45:20 -0300, Mike Spencer
> <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Those generators are costly and require maintenance.  I've thought
>>> about getting one but it's more hassle than it's worth for the few
>>> times that I've had a serious power outage.  Among other things the
>>> generator gets its own load panel to which loads that are considered
>>> "critical" are fed, which may mean a good bit of rewiring.
>> 
>> We have wood heat/cooking plus bottled propane backup for cooking in
>> hot weather.  Water is hand-pumped.  The gen set in the woodshed isn't
>> wired into the house.  A 100' extension cord run through a port bored
>> through the house wall feeds the fridge and freezers if an outage is
>> more than a few hours.
> 
> I don't live in Novia Scotia, I have a building inspector and a fire
> marshall and an electric company and lawyers and the whole nine yards
> to deal with.  And they won't allow quite a lot of things.

They couldn't stop this. If you wanted to get fancy you could install a box
on the outside wall with the appropriate plugs, but not connected to
anything. Fire marshal couldn't say anything, but when needed it would be
easy to plug in the generator and appliances.

>> 
>> As for oil heat vs. electric or other fuels: If you have a leak of
>> long duration or catastrophic damage to your fuel oil tank, you can be
>> in for environmental cleanup, depending on you location and how
>> quickly & effectively you can deal with it yourself, on the low order
>> of $10^4.
>> 
>> Lights, computers, other appliances aren't "critical" but can run off
>> the gen set if need justifies enduring the background noise and
>> fuel.
> 



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Pete