[NJARC] How is everyone???? - South Old Bridge

[manualman at juno.com]

In Sayreville, NJ, we lost power Monday afternoon and got it back Sunday
evening. My Harbor Freight $90 (with coupon) generator powered one of my
refrigerators all week. Ran the generator about 5 hours a day and it kept
all the stuff cold and unspoiled. Also charged my cell phone and some
rechargeable battery flashlights. Fortunately, we have a gas stove and
gas water heater so we cooked hot meals each day and had hot water.  Wife
and I (both with very sexy multi- layers of clothing and head lamps), and
both dogs, spent the evenings in candlelight on the sofa watching the
radio.  Temps in most rooms never went below 55 degrees during the
various evenings. I bought the generator this past summer to use at
various flea markets to power and demonstrate stuff I was selling.
Probably one of my better $90 investments. This is the first time in my
area during the past 40 years, that I can remember, the power outage
lasting more then 10 hours so having a "biggy" multi-KW generator was
never a consideration.

Pete
http://www.manualman.com

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 19:51:57 -0500 (EST) Sal Brisindi <salb203 at aol.com>
writes:
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>  Hi Tom,
> One word....generator! If it wasn't for my generator only 2500 watts 
> continuous, 20 amps, my wife would have never survived. I backfed my 
> generator to the outlet on the side of my boiler which in turn 
> powered 1/2 the breaker box so my heat worked, refrigerator, dining 
> room, down stairs bathroom, kitchen lights, foyer, 2 bedrooms and my 
> porch lights all worked.  I do use a lot of CFL lamps. We also did 
> laundry but I turned off the fridge not to overload my generator. 
> Best $200 investment I made last year from Home Depot.
> 
> I have a electric stove so no way my generator would power it so I 
> shut off that circuit breaker, my air compressor circuit breaker and 
> my central air circuit breaker.
> 
> Of course, if you back feed a outlet or circuit breaker panel  with 
> your generator, you have to turn off your main circuit breaker.
> 
> Regards,
> Sal