Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

[JNDATHP]

I want to conserve on propane consumption and don’t want our house lit up like a Christmas Tree!

 

[Broachoski]

Video of the WEN's first run if anyone is interested

I could not resist any more so ordered 2 of the little WEN's myself to play with after you and mattp speaking positive about it. At least it is not new cameras this time.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

$299 is a heck of a deal honestly

 

[biggen]

Now that Debbie is out of the way. Onto next week.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Spent all weekend caulking up gaps, I'm ready!

 

[biggen]

I was hoping Debbie would at least knock out our power for 10 minutes or so just to run the gen!

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Well, if we get a stiff breeze I'll get to use the generator for another 6 days

 

[bigredfish]

Shhhhhh

We haven’t lost juice yet and a lot of Lake County is out. Weird because much of the infrastructure here at the swamp is held together with duct tape and old shoe laces ..

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Latest run focuses even more on Houston

 

[fergenheimer]

Shhhhhh

We haven’t lost juice yet and a lot of Lake County is out. Weird because much of the infrastructure here at the swamp is held together with duct tape and old shoe laces ..

I lived in Leesburg for 7 years and don't recall ever losing power for an extended period of time. They are a municipal utility and pretty good. Duke had a transformer fire (?) in Grand Isle recently that was not storm related. I suspect you are with SECO and I have no experience with them. I'm with Withlacoochee and in 24 years have only had one hours long outage. Knock on wood!

 

[bigredfish]

We’re actually with Duke, off Dead River Road
Parts of Dead River are SECO which is a great little utility

 

[dudemaar]

Bad thunderstorm here an hour ago. I’m prepped. Starlink and crockpot is all I need

I do need a bigger generator some day. This one was free from my mother.

 

[abita_brewing]

I lived in Leesburg for 7 years and don't recall ever losing power for an extended period of time. They are a municipal utility and pretty good. Duke had a transformer fire (?) in Grand Isle recently that was not storm related. I suspect you are with SECO and I have no experience with them. I'm with Withlacoochee and in 24 years have only had one hours long outage. Knock on wood!

I had stable power for years, then there was an explosion of building/development. Power got intermittent as they turned off substations for expansion work.

After that died down... things got better.

But there's a MAJOR datacenter going up now... so I'm thinking that will make things worse... siphoning off excess capacity.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

I had stable power for years, then there was an explosion of building/development. Power got intermittent as they turned off substations for expansion work.

After that died down... things got better.

But there's a MAJOR datacenter going up now... so I'm thinking that will make things worse... siphoning off excess capacity.

Sneak a big cord over to their gensets

 

[fergenheimer]

We’re actually with Duke, off Dead River Road
Parts of Dead River are SECO which is a great little utility

I liked Dead River Vics back in the day. I guess it has changed hands but Vic did a great job on that place!

 

[fergenheimer]

I had stable power for years, then there was an explosion of building/development. Power got intermittent as they turned off substations for expansion work.

After that died down... things got better.

But there's a MAJOR datacenter going up now... so I'm thinking that will make things worse... siphoning off excess capacity.

Got a lot of friends working at datacenters. They are big time power hogs! I've friends at Meta and Google centers.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

The Natural Gas bill just arrived from running generator for Beryl, outage was 6 days, 6 hours and 27 mins

Taking out my normal usage then calculating out the hours, I'm at $12.59 per 24 hours on generator. Generac RG027-QS

 

[samplenhold]

Taking out my normal usage then calculating out the hours, I'm at $12.59 per 24 hours on generator. Generac RG027-QS

Wow that compares quite well to your estimate!

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

 

[biggen]

I think I responded to you over on Reddit!

That's pretty good and a good estimate on what I'd use in a similar situation as yours. That is just a bit over $.50/hour. I pay about $.35/therm. My gen uses approx 2 therm/hour at 50% load (~10kW) which would probably be way more kW than I'd be using as an average.