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Re: [oletrucks] Storm Damage

To: <NSurles@aol.com>, <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Storm Damage
From: "Don Slaney" <ppm@dlcwest.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 23:27:53 -0700
Sonny, are you anywhere near Whiteville N.C. or happen to know the situation
there?
Hope things get better and dryer there for you.

Best regards,
Don. Regina Beach, SK. Canada..


----- Original Message -----
From: <NSurles@aol.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Storm Damage


> Thanks for the concern.  Some of us have been busy!  I live near where
I-95
> and I-40 cross, which is on the West edge of the flooded areas.  We lost
> power for several days - which taught me another lesson I didn't really
want.
>
> I ran a 5 kW generator during the power outage.  When I first hooked it
up, I
> "back fed" it from the sub-panel in the workshop.  I forgot that the
neutral
> in a sub-panel is not bonded to the ground.  When I connected the
generator's
> neutral/ground wire, I landed it on the ground bar, not the neutral bar.
> Result is I had a "floating neutral" and everything that was plugged in
saw
> about 240 V rather than 120.  TV, VCR, radios, surge suppressors.....
I'm
> at over $200 and counting.
>
> But I'm back on-line!
>
> Sonny
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>

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