| Re: [GMCnet] Irma Update [message #323873 is a reply to message #323868] |
Thu, 14 September 2017 12:48   |
Ken Henderson
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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They, or someone, helped us. Trucks from Alabama and other, unknown,
places began working in our neighborhood yesterday morning. Our power came
back on about 2 hours ago -- hallelujah!
The GMC with its TroyBilt generator was a lifesaver. I was a little
surprised at how well it did, mechanically and electrically. I don't have
an hour meter on it, but I'd estimate 35 hours of operation and probably
only 20 gallons or so of gas used.
The electrical part worried me because there's only one receptacle
accessible from outside: The refrigerator socket, on a 20A breaker. Into
that I plugged the GMC refer; the house refer; and, the house freezer;
plus, each evening, the golf cart charger. Never had a breaker trip.
The TroyBilt came with a duplex outlet with 15A sockets wired individually
into its two 20A windings. Along with it was a long (probably 25') heavy
duty cord with two 15 A pigtails off of each of the paired 15A plugs. If I
had thought ahead when building the coach, I'd have wired an outside socket
similarly so I could really take advantage of the generator. With the
compactness of all the bits now, I doubt that it will be practical to
rewire it before the next hurricane (first one we'd been through since
1960).
Hope everyone else affected by Matthew and Irma are as now well off as we
are!
Ken H.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Les Burt wrote:
> Just read in one of our local papers that Hydro Quebec trucks are headed
> south to Atlanta area to help out.
>
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Ken Henderson
Americus, GA
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