🚀 go-pugleaf

J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 06:10:54 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-04-30 02:08, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:32:08 -0700, Peter Flass <> wrote:
>>>> J. Clarke <> wrote:
>>>>> On 28 Apr 2018 22:45:20 -0300, Mike Spencer <> wrote:
>>>>>> J. Clarke <> 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 long as it is installed to code with GFIs and the whole nine yards.
>>> Now, plug a generator into it and run the house and if he happens by
>>> he's going to want to see your isolator that keeps current from
>>> flowing back into the power lines.  He's not going to be happy to take
>>> your word for it that you'll flip the main breaker.  And they have
>>> somebody who is paid to ride around and look for things like that.
>> 
>> You would be supplying your entire neighbourhood, you'd blow your
>> generator fuse, LOL.
> 
> That depends on (a) whether anybody else has anything turned on and
> (b) exactly what lines are down.
> 
> Seriously, code requires isolation.  If you're not isolated Big
> Brother's gonna getcha.  At least in this town where they pay some
> dweeb to measure dandelions and levy huge fines if they're over a
> foot.
> 

If you have dandelions a foot tall they should give you an award!

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Pete