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Re: My UN-automated Home :-(



We have the switch (although only a manual one) already there.  It was part of the electrical spec for the house that it was wired for a generator.
 
M.
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 11:13 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(

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

 

-----Original Message-----
From: andy.powell@xxxxxxx [mailto:andy.powell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 28 February 2001 10:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: 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
Please respond to ukha_d


        To:     <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
        cc:
        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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