Topband: Yikes! Heavy snow, freezing fog and 23 degrees F in Raleigh, NC

[Charlie Cunningham]

I'll have to look into that, Gary!  Mine is much bigger. A little generator
like that, I could keep in the house and pull out on the back deck when
needed if it would supply enough power to run the air handler on my gas
furnace and a fluorescent light or two, I'd be good to go!

I'll check it out!  Thanks!

73,
Charlie,K4OTV

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From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary and
Kathleen Pearse
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Topband: Yikes! Heavy snow, freezing fog and 23 degrees F in
Raleigh, NC

I keep a Honda EU 2000i genset
(http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2000i) in the house for
emergencies. We (Fairbanks, Ak.) had a wind and ice storm in November.lost
my 160 wires for a while, two trees hit the house, and another broke the
power line for over a couple days. 

The little Honda was enough to keep the Toyo oil stoves going and lights
available. On Eco mode they'll run a gallon of gas for 8-10 hrs easy. And
they only weigh ~50# so can be carried about. It'll run a barefoot ham
station in an emergency as well.

73 and hunker down folks, 

Gary NL7Y


> Hi, Bill!
> 
> Well, it's bad out there!  Lots of gridlock on the roads and now the
weather people are calling for 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch of ICE!  That WILL bring
the power down. Don't' thimk I'm able to get my generator going, altho ugh
it has bropu ght me through a few ice storms and a hurricane in the past but
I'm too crippled now to; foo; with it! I'll just have to hunker down and
hope for the best. I do have my gas logs. flashlights etc.
> 
> If my ship comes in, I'd like to get a whole house generator with a
transfer switch and electric start tho;at run's from natural gas but that
doesn' help me right now!
> 
> Take care and stay warm, Bill
> 
> 73,
> Charlie, K4OTV
> 

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