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1. Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Deikis, John G" <John.Deikis@va.gov>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:54:44 -0500; Got this 8 h.p. generator that is supposed to push out 4,000 watts constant power. I've had it for years but decided in a recent ice storm to have it run my gas furnace. No dice! In fact, it didn't; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01324.html (8,227 bytes)
2. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:07:27 -0600; What brand of generator is it? Run it with some kind of load, like plug several drop lights into one outlet. Use the volt meter on the other outlet and make sure it is putting out around 120V. The th; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01327.html (7,842 bytes)
3. RE: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:14:13 -0600; Hmmm... a 4kw generator in the average RV runs a rooftop AC, lights, battery chargers, refrigerator, etc. (In warm weather, they certainly run an RV furnace fan...) How do you have it wired into your; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01329.html (8,605 bytes)
4. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:32:54 -0800; Assuming it puts out 120volts, that's 33 amps. Most outlets are 20 amp, the rest are 15. It should be enough for several refrigerators and a furnace fan. Make sure you have it hooked up to the break; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01330.html (8,923 bytes)
5. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "John D'Agostino" <john.dagostino@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:41:00 -0500; I believe 4000 watts should run at least two 15 amp circuits. (15ax120v)=1800 watts *2 = 3600 watts. That is assuming both circuits were both at max using 15 amps. In reality they should be drawing; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01331.html (8,781 bytes)
6. RE: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Deikis, John G" <John.Deikis@va.gov>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:45:24 -0500; Hey...don't you guys have jobs???! Thanks for all the quick replies. I have a switch box that was put in by an electrician about 10 years ago. The box has 5 circuits and goes into the 5 circuits I wa; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01332.html (10,158 bytes)
7. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:51:28 -0600; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01333.html (8,185 bytes)
8. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "John D'Agostino" <john.dagostino@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:08:11 -0500; Day off. I'm confused, you have a box with a feed from the generator. The box feeds five circuits, three120v 15amp, one double pole 30amp 220v? How do you isolate that box from the main or the rest o; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01334.html (8,899 bytes)
9. RE: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Dave G." <dmg@bossig.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:15:34 -0800; First, If you don't pull the main breaker then you are trying to power up simultaneously all items that are "ON" in the house... but you already knew that :-)) Second, your AC and refrigerator motors; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01335.html (8,962 bytes)
10. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:18:51 -0800; Do you really have that many power outages?; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01336.html (8,365 bytes)
11. RE: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Deikis, John G" <John.Deikis@va.gov>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:26:36 -0500; I'm the last house on the western end of an electrical grid that is owned by Detroit Edison. In the summer it's electrical storms and falling branches and trees; in the winter it's heavy snow and fal; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01337.html (9,198 bytes)
12. RE: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:29:23 -0600; Since I live out in the corn in WI, I've looked into a switch set up. My house has 200 amp service. It feeds 60 amp service to a box in the garage and a 100 amp box in the Thicko shop. I'd hoped to w; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01338.html (9,752 bytes)
13. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:30:51 -0500; Me too but I still have to "go to work" My computer is home and I turn it on when I get home from WORK. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01343.html (8,354 bytes)
14. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:47:02 -0600; I work as little as possible. In between jobs I take retirement on the installment plan. Mostly during the day I just reply to emails and tell people to "ask Frank when he gets home from work". Every; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01346.html (8,176 bytes)
15. RE: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:56:09 -0800 (PST); -- "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com> Just hook up 10 or so of the Thicko fleet to a giant treadmill. 'hopper _____________________________________________________________________________; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01347.html (8,209 bytes)
16. Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: "Dean Swanson" <d.swanson@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:35:25 -0500; My father always used a couple of electric heaters as a load to test his generator. They have the wattage right on them..or use a lot of light bulbs.; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01351.html (7,812 bytes)
17. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:45:37 -0800 (PST); Ah yes - the power of light bulbs. We developed and patented a generator that also provides sub-zero cooling using aircraft engine compressed air to drive it, and we used a load bank to demonstrate i; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01353.html (8,430 bytes)
18. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Lester <lewing@sport.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:09:17 -0600; Dave is on to the REAL problem. I learned this when I installed a 15KW generator (We are in a similar situation, end of the line with branches everywhere) and I wanted to power the entire house. Duri; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01362.html (9,201 bytes)
19. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:38:24 -0800 (PST); Because they don't drug test them? It's commonly wild frequency now, btw. But it was done initially to save weight, as power supplies can be made smaller, albeit less efficient. Mach diamonds, a cool; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01401.html (8,619 bytes)
20. Re: Portable generators --No LBC (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:24:50 -0600; SR-71s fly so fast that the (Titanium?) skin on the nose wrinkles from heat. The tooling for the SR-71 was ordered destroyed by a General who wanted his buddies to get a contract for the aircraft tha; /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01406.html (7,638 bytes)

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