I want to conserve on propane consumption and don’t want our house lit up like a Christmas Tree!
Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc
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Broachoski
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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.
biggen
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I was hoping Debbie would at least knock out our power for 10 minutes or so just to run the gen!
Well, if we get a stiff breeze I'll get to use the generator for another 6 days
bigredfish
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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 ..
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
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We’re actually with Duke, off Dead River Road
Parts of Dead River are SECO which is a great little utility
Parts of Dead River are SECO which is a great little utility
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.
I do need a bigger generator some day. This one was free from my mother.
abita_brewing
Getting the hang of it
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.
I liked Dead River Vics back in the day. I guess it has changed hands but Vic did a great job on that place!
Got a lot of friends working at datacenters. They are big time power hogs! I've friends at Meta and Google centers.
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
Taking out my normal usage then calculating out the hours, I'm at $12.59 per 24 hours on generator. Generac RG027-QS
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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.
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.