Does anyone know this ??
Jan 3rd 2007 | 2:00 am
#16
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Jan 3rd 2007 | 2:01 am
#17
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Re: Does anyone know this ??
Jan 3rd 2007 | 2:03 am
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Re: Does anyone know this ??
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Jan 3rd 2007 | 2:13 am
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Re: Does anyone know this ??
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Jan 3rd 2007 | 2:30 am
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Re: Does anyone know this ??
Im pretty sure the well pump is 240, but as in really the 240 is 120-0-120, I need to feed both halfs for the 120 curcuits in the house. Half the circuits run off one half, and the others half on the other, so I need both to be sure all things will work. Feeding 240 into the dryer circuit is a convenient way to acheive that without paying $7k+ for a professional generator/ auto switching breaker system. This is strictly for emergency Plan B purposes...not grizly adams "life of the grid" stuff. Bare in mind the dryer circuit is rated for more amps than the generator can provide...so its *should* be safe enough (I hope)
Yes its dodgy from an insurance perspective I suspect, but if there is a prolonged winter outage I will take heat and water over the risk something catastrophic happens, and its not like it is left running unattended. The only time we really ran it in anger it was run for a few minutes every hour to pump some heat around the house, keep the fridge and freezer cold and to provide water to the tank. The noise level was too high to want to run it much more than that!
If you have an electric water heat you might want to disconnect / unplug/ defuse it otherwise the generator will really struggle with the heavy load. I wouldnt try running the stove either, although the microwave would probably work OK.
Yes its dodgy from an insurance perspective I suspect, but if there is a prolonged winter outage I will take heat and water over the risk something catastrophic happens, and its not like it is left running unattended. The only time we really ran it in anger it was run for a few minutes every hour to pump some heat around the house, keep the fridge and freezer cold and to provide water to the tank. The noise level was too high to want to run it much more than that!
If you have an electric water heat you might want to disconnect / unplug/ defuse it otherwise the generator will really struggle with the heavy load. I wouldnt try running the stove either, although the microwave would probably work OK.
I only have that 2.8 kw generator and I can watch TV, run the frig and microwave and lights all at the same time. A microwave isn't that big a load.... whereas an electric-powered clothes drier is a huge load.
Jan 3rd 2007 | 3:59 am
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From: St. John's, Newfoundland
Re: Does anyone know this ??
Actually I think Iain has it right, our well pump is 240v too. Hmm, I might have to think about his solution. We don't get power outages that often but when we do then everything is off - water, heating and worse still the internet!
The more frequent winter occurance for us is the flue for the furnace getting covered by a snowdrift. Unfortunately it faces into prevailing winds. A job for the weekend is the installation of a temporary snow fence to hopefully negate the need for me to get up in the middle of the night in my PJ's to dig the bloody thing out again.
The more frequent winter occurance for us is the flue for the furnace getting covered by a snowdrift. Unfortunately it faces into prevailing winds. A job for the weekend is the installation of a temporary snow fence to hopefully negate the need for me to get up in the middle of the night in my PJ's to dig the bloody thing out again.
