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07-08-2005 | 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Rez
Mark, not that you'll have time to do this now. But if you have room on your breaker, you could wire a 3 wire with a ground into your box and make an outlet for the generator to hookup to. When power goes out, turn off your main disconnect, shut off all breakers in the box except for the one for the generator. Plug the generator into the outlet and turn on the small breakers, like kitchen, living room, etc. That way the generator will power up portions of the house and you won't have to mess with extensions cords all over.
Of course you can mess with that for next storm. Good luck brother.
Of course you can mess with that for next storm. Good luck brother.
I may try your trick next time.
Thanks, tho.
07-11-2005 | 08:57 PM
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I'm OK. House needs a little work and I have lots of trees down. Many snapped like tooth picks. I'm on a generator for power and I'm on wireless broadband through my cell company since we have no phone lines that work. It sucks but it could have been much worse. We are very lucky that the storm shifted north so we missed the backside of the storm. However, we still got whacked by the outer eye wall so we still got some really intense winds but nothing like Ivan.