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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>When I bought my Honda (for RC) my wife thought it great
that I bought a gen for hurricane season. Hmmm.</DIV>
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<DIV>Even a 2kW Honda will power a lot in a home if connected properly. A 12 ga.
extension cord isn't going to get it! NEVER connect a gen to house wiring
without a disconnect that prevents feeding power back into the grid! Be sure not
to run afoul of local codes. </DIV>
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<DIV></FONT><FONT face=Arial>To cover that I installed a ProTran power side
transfer panel. <A
href="http://www.steadypower.com/catalog/rc_intro.php ">http://www.steadypower.com/catalog/rc_intro.php </A>
These things connect between the individual home circuit breakers and the
loads. They're prewired and are available with different numbers of circuits.
Simply, they have a switch for each circuit that allows connection to the normal
supply line (breaker), off, or connected to the gen via a breaker equipped
circuit in the panel (and disconnected from the grid). There's also a meter to
monitor power consumption levels. The next step is connection to the gen, hard
wired or extensions cord arrangements are available for the panel. The trick is
to use heavy enough wire to handle the load for the distance involved with
minimal voltage drop. I opted for an 8 ga. extension cord. In operation you fire
up the gen & switch the connected home circuits to the gen at the panel.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Pretty amazing what that little Honda will handle.
Continuous use of fridge, ceiling fans, lights, TV, & computers is no
problem. Need to switch off everything but fridge / fans to use microwave /
garage door opener. All this for about a gallon of gas every 8-10 hrs. Of course
you can forget about anything requiring 220v - central air / electric range /
etc. (A 110v window AC unit for the bedroom is a wise investment.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The only issue I observed is that the gens run fairly rich
A/F for best power and this produces a lot of carbon monoxide. The gen must be
located so that the exhaust gases don't enter the house (a CO detector is
advisable), and the gen will then likely be exposed to rain - not good. Some
sort of "dog house" to protect it from rain and yet allow cooling / exhaust
egress is necessary.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Of course it's best to have this all in place before
needed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Earl</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=schale1@verizon.net href="mailto:schale1@verizon.net">Stuart
Chale</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:41
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Contest
Results</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Yeah really at least you have a generator that can operate a
few items maybe even a small fridge, charge your laptop., cellphones
etc. Since my home field has electric all I have is a 12 volt deep cycle
battery.<BR><BR>I hooked that up to a UPS computer power backup and charged my
laptop and cellphones with it :)<BR>Next step if the power remained out was to
make an adapter to plug between my 5 cell packs (hope they are charged) and my
laptop power input. The transformer puts out 18 volts so the 5 cell
packs should have worked well :)<BR><BR>On 8/30/2011 8:01 AM, Joe Lachowski
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<DIV dir=ltr>Lucky. As of this morning I still don't have
power.<BR> <BR>
<DIV>> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:50:52 -0400<BR>> From: <A
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href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A><BR>>
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Contest Results<BR>> <BR>> I have power
back on and D4 Ohio Valley contest results are up :)<BR>> <BR>>
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