Random Thought Thread

Blues said:
Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist and Jo the Machinist Jo the Machinist

Prepare for a blackout. I just emptied the tub of the water saved for running toilets during an outage.

You've been warned.

(I haven't turned off the pilot light on the propane fireplace, however. You trust your mother, but you still cut the cards.)
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I hate being without water. I got a small 3,000 watt generator with 120-240 output years ago so that I could run a well and a refrigerator and a few lights during power outages. It's not very loud and it can go 16 hours on 4 gallons of gas. It wasn't very expensive at all and after the initial break-in I used synthetic oil that ages well so maintenance has been pretty much nothing. Well worth it.


You put a few circuits that you want to have generator backup onto a subpanel that you can feed from that generator. That way when the lights go out you open the breaker between the main panel and the sub panel and power that sub with the generator. Once the power comes back on, you disconnect the generator and connect that sub back to mains.

... Technically you're not supposed to do it this way, but you know....
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I hate being without water. I got a small 3,000 watt generator with 120-240 output years ago so that I could run a well and a refrigerator and a few lights during power outages. It's not very loud and it can go 16 hours on 4 gallons of gas. It wasn't very expensive at all and after the initial break-in I used synthetic oil that ages well so maintenance has been pretty much nothing. Well worth it.


You put a few circuits that you want to have generator backup onto a subpanel that you can feed from that generator. That way when the lights go out you open the breaker between the main panel and the sub panel and power that sub with the generator. Once the power comes back on, you disconnect the generator and connect that sub back to mains.

... Technically you're not supposed to do it this way, but you know....
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You bad boy, you! Now you KNOW you're s'posed to cut the 'lectric company feed to your main breaker box when you do that. Naughty, naughty!

I have a pretty sweet transfer switch set-up myself and can power both fridges, the family room (with TV and Interwebs router), and the basement lights when Dominion Power goes down . . . as it so often does.
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
Now here is a true Random Thought. Thinking of changing my Screen Name here to Error 522.

Whaddyathink?
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Sometimes I worry about having my primary location of commerce somewhat unreliable, but then I reflect upon every other aspect of my production and BF is actually relatively reliable compared to the rest of it.

The power company came out and installed a bigger transformer on my pole, but we managed to pop it too...
 
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The Amazing Virginian said:
You bad boy, you! Now you KNOW you're s'posed to cut the 'lectric company feed to your main breaker box when you do that. Naughty, naughty!

I have a pretty sweet transfer switch set-up myself and can power both fridges, the family room (with TV and Interwebs router), and the basement lights when Dominion Power goes down . . . as it so often does.
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Got this one, and using 8 circuits for oil burner, 2 fridges, microwave, toaster oven, living room, and 2 sump pumps. Got it (and a gen) about 10 years ago right after a huge ice storm just missed us and left people without power for weeks. Have only needed to use it twice, but so worth it.

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tinfoil hat timmy said:
Anyone know what a Quadrillion is?
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sickpuppy1 said:
depends what part of the world your in. In US its 1 followed by 15 zeros, if British its 1 followed by 24 zeros.
I just call it a metric shitload.
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This was my understanding for many years.
I mentioned it to a British scientist this past November and he said that they have pretty much gone away from the different definitions (like a billion being a million millions rather than a thousand).
So as sick puppy says you can take it to be 10^15. We routinely deal with much larger numbers in science and usually use scientific notation.
 
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