[Elecraft] OT GENERAC generators

[Walter Underwood]

Baton Rouge is more than 50 miles inland. Betsy was a big storm, the first billion dollar damage hurricane.

Now I live in earthquake country. Our power outage after the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989) was pretty short, not even a day. 

Interestingly, the Hurricane Watch Net was started by amateur radio volunteers during Hurricane Betsy.

http://www.hwn.org/

wunder
K6WRU
CM87wj
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On Jul 27, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Bob <K2TK at att.net> wrote:

> Well after hurricane Sandy I was out for well over a week.   And I'm 50 miles inland in the NW corner of NJ.  A big issue was gas. Even gas stations that had gas had no power to pump it.
> 
> I had an old Dayton with a Briggs & Stratton engine.rated at 2.5kw. Ran fine for duration but killer was 25 hour oil  change interval and pull starting.  It like many small engines had a "splash" oiling system. Generac has generators at many price points.  I settled on an 8KW unit with electric start  but the more important feature was a full pressure oiling system with filter and 100 hour change intervals.  Just another consideration if looking at generators especially smaller ones.
> 
> Since purchase it has more testing than generating hours.   I hope it stays that way.
> 
> 73,
> Bob
> K2TK  ex KN2TKR & K2TKR
> 
> 
> On 7/27/2014 1:04 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
>> One side topic was “how long could power be out?”
>> 
>> At the Carleton Complex fire in Washington, power is being restored after seven days.
>> 
>> I grew up in Baton Rouge. After Hurricane Betsy in 1965, our phones were out for seven days and power for ten days. We lived in a suburban area in the middle of town.
>> 
>> wunder
>> K6WRU
>> CM87wj
>> http://observer.wunderwood.org/
>> 
> 
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