RE: Generators

["Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>]

> Anyway - the purpose of this post is to STRONGLY advise
> anyone involved in a new build to have a generator
> switch-over switch fitted.  In the grand scheme of things the
> price will be invisible.  Adding it later will probably be
> much more expensive.  Our generator is a small petrol affair
> (Honda engine).  It cost 360+VAT and is an absolute god-send.
>  Without it we'd have been sitting in a very cold, very dark
> house last night, watching our freezer defrost again.  With
> it we had Central Heating, Fridge, Freezer, Lights, TV (and
> Dreamcast), one PC, and even the Microwave at one point.
>
>

This is something I have been thinking off, as you know we live on top
of mountan and we do suffer outages from time to time, although I have
to say our local supply company I fairly good, last bad outage they came
out in 70 MPH winds with driving rain, wind chill was -15c and at 10Pm
to 3Am they worked to get it fixed, they had a team of 10 men working on
it they even had to dif up the road, in the end it was a neutral fault
which I am told are difficult to deal with as there is a risk of lots of
things becoming live like fences etc.

Back to my question, the geni you got was it a specail one which will
work with computers ? How big a unit did you get and how much does it
cost.

John