We are READY for a Hurricane now...

[kawGIRL]

Just picked this up for the up-comming season 

So now we WON'T have a hurricane 

But hey now when we camp we can power up everyone 





YES it is HUGE! 

[LakeMaryKid]

neighbor has that, took a lil bit to put together and for the size it is very quiet!

[SWAMP_DONKEY]

well it looks like you can start charging fellow campers for power...

     "1 night of power = 1 bottle of rum"

  Everyone leave thier generators @ home, I have plenty of extension cords and "Shorts Energy co-op"
has PLENTY OF POWER!!!

[Magnum330]

With all the generators sold in Florida I don't think we are ever ready for all them stormes. We have had our share for a long time but it's nice to have one of them just incase.

Are you going to run it on Gas or Propane? Just wondering I work for a Propane Company and we are hooking them up to propane like 3 a week and the calls are still coming.

[ucfneed2ride]

Propane and Propane Accessories??...sorry couldnt help myself.

[SWAMP_DONKEY]

DAMNIT BOBBY

[Redgrizzly660]

Can I get power from U guy's too? I have plenty of extention cords.

Grizz
Gen Info
http://electricgeneratorsdirect.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=345

[kawGIRL]

Sure Grizz My Dad wants me to run a cord to his house....6 miles down the road for the next storm 
We got it for 1999.99 at Home Depot.

We will keep the gas tank on it, it will come in handy when we start building our log cabin in the mountains    for $1,000 more we could have bought the one that you put on a pad that uses propane, but we need to portable for now.  When the cabin is done we will have the other one.  

[dreth]

you have an electrician to hook it up for you? pick me, pick me

[kawGIRL]

The guy that owned our house before us worked for FPL so we have multi-fuse boxes around the house  the wiring in the house SUCKS! for someone that worked at FPL, anyway we can make a pigtail off the laundry room box, ?  Jeff knows how....thats all that matters    He works with LARGE generators at the Condo.

Hey Shawn if we come across any problems you are the first one I would call 

[dreth]

The guy that owned our house before us worked for FPL so we have multi-fuse boxes around the house  the wiring in the house SUCKS! for someone that worked at FPL, anyway we can make a pigtail off the laundry room box, ?  Jeff knows how....thats all that matters    He works with LARGE generators at the Condo.

Hey Shawn if we come across any problems you are the first one I would call 

thanks! keep in mind that your dryer recepticle is only rated for 30 amps and that generator is rated for 50 amps, so you would be over loading the wire if you use it to its potential. i would suggest a 50 amp outlet below the panel with a pig tail to it so you could use the generator full tilt.  that generator should run your ac, all your lights, water pump, fridge and a freezer with no problem

[o4250]

Hey we're ready too!

[GSPKurt]

Just picked this up for the up-comming season 

So now we WON'T have a hurricane 

But hey now when we camp we can power up everyone 
YES it is HUGE! 

[kawGIRL]

The guy that owned our house before us worked for FPL so we have multi-fuse boxes around the house  the wiring in the house SUCKS! for someone that worked at FPL, anyway we can make a pigtail off the laundry room box, ?  Jeff knows how....thats all that matters    He works with LARGE generators at the Condo.

Hey Shawn if we come across any problems you are the first one I would call 

thanks! keep in mind that your dryer recepticle is only rated for 30 amps and that generator is rated for 50 amps, so you would be over loading the wire if you use it to its potential. i would suggest a 50 amp outlet below the panel with a pig tail to it so you could use the generator full tilt. that generator should run your ac, all your lights, water pump, fridge and a freezer with no problem

Had never planned on using the dryer recepticle.... we have a disconnect next to our meter to do the pigtail

[dreth]

The guy that owned our house before us worked for FPL so we have multi-fuse boxes around the house  the wiring in the house SUCKS! for someone that worked at FPL, anyway we can make a pigtail off the laundry room box, ?  Jeff knows how....thats all that matters    He works with LARGE generators at the Condo.

Hey Shawn if we come across any problems you are the first one I would call 

thanks! keep in mind that your dryer recepticle is only rated for 30 amps and that generator is rated for 50 amps, so you would be over loading the wire if you use it to its potential. i would suggest a 50 amp outlet below the panel with a pig tail to it so you could use the generator full tilt. that generator should run your ac, all your lights, water pump, fridge and a freezer with no problem

Had never planned on using the dryer recepticle.... we have a disconnect next to our meter to do the pigtail

[jackinthebox23]

Hey while we're on this generator topic.... and Dreth, maybe you can back me up on this (I believe you are an electrician)...
I was talking with some FPL safety people the other day and they said the biggest problem that they have with these generators is that people hook them up to their house wrong and back charge the lines.  This can kill people quickly. 

Does everybody know how to hook these generators up properly, and if so...give a quick explanation on the site of how to do it.  I don't have a generator, but if I went out and bought one today it still wouldn't mean that I would know what I was doing.  The more people that are educated on this, the less likely people are to get injured.

Thanks

[Da_Mtg_Man]

You are correct. The best way to do it is to disconnect the neutral in the box that way it won't backfeed and zap the power people that are working on the lines.

[Ida_Mann]

I got me two very large marine/deep-cycle 12V batteries, and I got a 1500watt inverter,,,,gonna be hooking the whole thing in my truck's bed to be charged off the alternator.

it's goo enough to run the big fridge and a bunch of fans without recharging for a couple days at least,,,,if it needs recharging,,,,,just fire up the truck for a while.

and there aint no generator noise,,,,,thats one thing I couldn't stand after charley was the generator noise through the neighborhood.

oh well, the whole setup cost me less than $250 and a little labor to hook it up.

Id@

[kawGIRL]

We use invertors all the time camping, also during the hurricanes we used them for the computer..."Clean Power" and yes the marine deepcycle batteries are the best

[Qdawg76]

Guess we are ready now also. Not much to choose from at the hardware stores right now as you all probably know. My Mother in law got us this. 6500 running watts with  8150 max surge watts, This should come in handy if not for the storms this year at least for camping.lol

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[wheelie_boy]

those are some nice generators you guys have got there. lol 

[americanhighlander]

  I used own one those gens in hurrcaine andrew during that time for 10days.
It will do good for mircowaves  and local tv  maybe for directtv you can
watch the weather channel with that gen.
It's very good mobile gen  for camping
out middle nowhere,or work shop.

I have 50kw gen it's a big boy.My dad got it back
9-10 years ago from his
x boss  here in mcalpin and got it for 4K doing that time.It can lite
up 4house with this thing.
I use this on my small 8acres farm here.
But i won't sale it and it's about size of minivan size
and it's sounds loud like truck and it's a ringpower gen.
I used it during last year with hurrcanie frances
when power was out for 40hours.

[stump66]

Just picked this up for the up-comming season 

So now we WON'T have a hurricane 

But hey now when we camp we can power up everyone 





YES it is HUGE! 

hey yours is bigger then mine,lol
I got a 6000kw craftsman still in the box