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Thu, 14 September 2017 14:13   |
James Hupy
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Registered: May 2010
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Good to hear that you survived relatively intact. Mother nature almost
always wins these battles. You guys have hurricanes, tornadoes, humidity,
insects. We have incessant rains, mudslides, long periods of hot weather,
forest fires, volcanoes, an occasional earthquake. Matter of choice I
guess.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
78 GMC ROYALE 403
On Sep 14, 2017 10:49 AM, "Ken Henderson" wrote:
> 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.
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>
> 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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