Whoooaaaa
 

Who turned the lights back on?!?!:zz::wf:zz:

That was not fun.

Did you get banned? :D

Steve would never do that. He likes the short jokes too much.

Just got my power back on late this afternoon.

This is true.

Must have sucked being without a/c and D.T.

There must be a huge power outage lately, because this place is dead.

We've been lucky down here in southside...only fighting the blistering heat...Mid 90's or higher all week...few sprinkles the other day...Up around Richmond they got hammered with fallen trees and outages...on the bright side don't have to cut the grass...saw on the news about possible shortage of corn due to draughts in midwest...talking already about prices on almost everything going up, price of beef will skyrocket...i'd eat veggies but they will cost more also...think i'll break out my fishing tackle and catch some cats..:eek:

Yeah. Been without power since the storm hit last Friday night. Fortunate that some friends let me stay with them a few nights, but the nights I did stay here were unbearable.

the generator is your friend kev.

I designed a whole house battery backup system for my house, if anyone is interested in doing this for themselves.

It works just like the UPS system for your computer (you do have one of these, right?). When the power goes out, protected circuits are automatically and instantaneously given power from a bank of deep cycle batteries.

The delay is not even noticeable, being around 10 milliseconds.

Running on just four (a small bank) batteries, I can get around 20 hours of backup power, and in extended outages I just hook up a generator to recharge the batteries, which is mostly done within a few hours, thus saving HUGE on your fuel bill during an outage.

Once power is back, the system automatically will recharge your batteries, so in most cases, this system is completely automated and hands off.

One of the beautiful things about this automated system, vs the Home Depot automatic backup generator is the running cost. Those automatic generators that run on propane, with the price of fuel these days, cost over $100 a day to run during an outage.

The only real negative is that you can't run really high load devices on it, such as an electric range, electric dryer (gas is no problem), electric heaters, that sort of thing.

I was thinking of marketing this, but don't have the money to invest in it anymore. If anyone would like to build one for themselves, let me know and I can tell you all the stuff you'll need to get.

consider this...the lower to the ground you are the cooler it is :p

If that's the case, he should be walking around with a ski cap.....................

great idea ..generac is popular around here. runs on natural gas it kicks on as soon as the power goes out.

i laughed..:tro:

I wonder how much it costs to run for a day with natural gas vs propane. I'm sure NG is cheaper, but those Generacs are pretty hungry.

if i'm ever faced with a power outage of more than a few hours, i'm going to a hotel that has power.

:baby:

:rolleyes:
i guess i didn't put enough details. depends on time of year.
the other day, we got up and there was no power...so i went to the gym to shower and go to work.
i'm not going to spend the night in a house with few windows that can open, when it's the temp it is right now, if there's no power. if that makes me a titty baby, so be it.

Can't remember last time i was in a hotel...are they still around.:)

Is that what Tony calls you?

I lost power for 5 days during that ice storm last October.. Exhausted all my firewood and was making daily trips to Lowes to pick up some.. Not the first multiple day outage last year (hurricane). A natural gas powered generator is in my near future.

now that was funny :tro: