Don’t
you
also need a clever switch to switch between incoming mains and generator
and a sensor
to know when the power is back on.
Sounds
like lots of 00’s to me to make it
safe.
Mike
Antena
Caernarfon
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Message-----
From: andy.powell@xxxxxxx
[mailto:andy.powell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 28 February 2001
10:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] My
UN-automated Home :-(
Is that his car or generator?? ;-)
It really depends upon the size of the house and consequentially the
load.A
n 'average' sized house with all it's 'stuff' going is probably going
ton
eed about a a 20kw generator ...smaller houses can probably get away
witha
8kw unit.....
Like I said it depends upon how much electricity you are using - normal
procedure would be that the installer would monitor your supply for a
weeko
r so to get an average power figure, and of course peak requirement -
i.e. everything is turned off, and then turned on again to see the peak
requirement...
If you use a genset (Generator and UPS) there should be no need for the
surge supressor - if there is then the installation is faulty. The idea
behind the genset is that there is *no* difference in the supply at
all.
If you are just running a generator then you could (as someone's
already
commented - seriously or not) just buy small UPS(s) for the PCs - which
are more likely to notice any power fluctuations - it/they wouldn't
have
to be that expensive/big - just enough to keep the PC's running for a
fewm
inutes while your generator got up to speed. You don't have to worry
about the lighting on a ups if you don't want to - but I'm
thinking
'ideal' situation here.. Personally I'd love to have a genset for
my
house (just to see the look on the nieghbours faces when they are in
the
dark and we're still watching TV ;-) ) bu it can get into silly
money...o
f course when I will the lottery and build my own place it will be a
standard feature.... with a secondary fuel tank to keep it going for
around a week... but then I've got more chance of spontaneously
combustingt
han winning the lottery!
A.
"Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>
28/02/2001 10:55
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Subject: Re: [ukha_d] My
UN-automated
Home :-(
>Are you sure that a £350 generator is going to be able to supply
enoughj
> uice to you house??? or are you just thinking of emergency
lighting?
My father-in-law has a Honda at that price. A 2.2 or 2.3 Kv or
something
like that??
It was running his lights, heating, fridge/freezer, even a
microwave.
That's all I need really (and one PC). I presume running a PC off
a
generator I should use some sort of surge suppressor or
something??
M.
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