Basically over here in Pompano/Lighthouse Point/Deerfield Beach area. A good rain and now calm.
Basically over here in Pompano/Lighthouse Point/Deerfield Beach area. A good rain and now calm.
Do this. It is so nice to be able to plug the generator into the house and run what you need without having to run cords everywhere. I added a 4 prong power inlet box to the side of my main service panel when I had a solar system installed.
I had this setup on my house in GA back 20 years ago also. That one was set up with a generator that could output 220V so I could run anything in the house up to the 4K limit of the generator. Now I have two quiet camping style inverter generators ganged up to get me 4K, but only at 110V. Just can't run the clothes dryer or the AC, but I don't need AC except a few weeks a year.
I did mine myself, but get an electrician if you don't understand the technical details. I had a friend that wired up a generator to his house in the aftermath of the fires we had near here in 2020. He almost got it wired correctly, but not quite. He ended up frying a big TV and other stuff in his house.
Ouch to the TV! I'm a big fan of not electrocuting myself, so an electrician will be doing it for sure, ha!
I've got one of those inverter generators that you are talking about, and have always liked that they can be chained together, but hadn't thought about the 110 vs 220 output. I just have mine for our tailgates; my girlfriend has no plans to ever go camping where we can't plug right in.
Our home one is a "Predator" that we bought on sale at Harbor Freight. I was a little leery, but it has been very reliable and saved us during Florence. We bought it literally the day before she got named. Talk about lucky timing. We just happened to be driving around where a HF was, and decided it would be smart to get one since not having one during the last power outage sucked.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
If the Predator is the loud contractor type ones, it probably has a 220 3 or 4 prong plug on it that would be perfect for wiring up to your panel.
That's the style I had in GA and when we first moved out here. With that one, the generatorless neighbors would tell me when the power came back on because they wanted me to shut it off as soon as possible.
My camping ones are nice because they are much quieter and each one only weighs 48 pounds, so easy to carry out to put into action.
My friend had a big noisy generator that he wanted to keep away from the house. So he had a long cord with only 3 wires. He hooked up the two hot legs and used the third wire for the return. He left the ground floating. If he would have connected the ground and the return together, he would have been OK. Because he left the ground floating, the generator didn't have proper feedback and generated excessive voltage.
Yep to both. After Florence, you could probably hear New Bern from Durham with all of the generators running.
My 2k inverter is what you're talking about. Quiet and mobile. The one that we've used previously to this year at tailgate was a 1k, half the weight, and whisper quiet. I got the 2k one for if I ever choose to, I can run our camper (including AC and fridge) with it. But I'll never talk gf into even thinking about that possibility, ha!
Back to the subject at hand, I'm hoping that everyone has a better idea of what Ian will be doing this weekend by tomorrow afternoon.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Just don't be an idiot and get a "male to male extension cord" which apparently some people were using to "put the electricity back into the house " 🤦not that anybody on this site would. It does look like Amazon has taken them down at least or they've just been pushed down the algo considerably due to the fact that it's a dangerous product. But the Consumer Product Safety Commission had to actually make a statement about it.
That’s absolutely understood. When it comes to hurricane tracks and shifts one person‘s good fortune ends up being another person‘s bad fortune.
The best thing that could’ve happened is if Ian had just gone due north till it reached the Panhandle. It would’ve been sheared down to a tropical storm by the time it hit land. Unfortunately this turn is going to allow it to come ashore as a Cat 4 or strong Cat 3 somewhere around Venice or Fort Myers.
The Carolina Hurricanes won their first pre-season game tonight, over Tampa Bay of all teams, 5-1. It's possible that TB had their focus elsewhere.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
OMG. Wind jumped 35 mph overnight. Now 155.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan
The line of clouds running up the northeast(not all Ian) is quite impressive.
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