Most people just look for why is the switch not working? I expect to see those people over at my place when it’s -40 Fahrenheit in a 2 day ICE outage. Most people don’t know how to be self sufficient in a emergency situation unless they’ve been heating there place of residence with wood. At the same time, he should run the generator for about an hour. But I did give him some advice to keep at least three Jerry cans (5gal each) for his boat full and dump them into his car every three months and refill for a fresh fuel back up. Two things, you don’t want to be powering your neighbours homes and you do not want to be put in power back on the grid to fry the linesman. The backfeed problem is pretty easy but a lot attention needs to be a paid to “The situation”. I’ve been helping my brother set up a emergency 120v Honda 2000 generator as a backfeed. I suppose if all you run off your get set are a few lights and a fridge, it would work out okay, but we don't need the privation of limited capacity at my age. Gasoline gensets aren't that appealing either. Our next door neighbor has a 500 gal tank and felt bad about spending the extra money when he found out what our system had done.ĭriving an hour or two multiple times to fill gasoline tanks over a nine day span wouldn't be appealing to me. We still had almost half our capacity left when the power was restored. Our 250 gal propane tank ran the house, including AC, water heater and cooking as well as all other loads for the entire time. We get frequent storms with frequent outages after hurricane Matthew two years ago, we had an outage of nine days (apparently we live on the very bottom of the priority list). I can't do that so easily with propaneGot a 15 KW whole house propane genset. I can always drive an hour or two and get gasoline. I'd really love to have a whole house, backup, system just for the ease. Another issue is that without electricity, the natural gas plant in town can't supply natural gas. It's alsoonly been in the last 10-12 years that you could actually buy your own tank(s) and use an independent provider. I have propane at the house.ĭuring the two periods that we lost power statewide, for 8-9 days, nd last year when I lost it for 4 days, the Governor had to issue executive orders that allowed anyone with a propane tank, and contract, to be able to get propane from any company capable of delivery. You can expect that only electricity is the higher cost energy source in Connecticut. It would be nice, but in Connecticut there are very few consumer protection laws regarding propane, and propane pricing.
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