🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
>
>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.