Re: Generators

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

John

It cost 360+VAT,  Nothing special about it as far as PCs are concerned.
Here's a copy of my post to the list last June...

It's a small (3.4kVA from memory) backup generator.  It's running this PC,
a
29" telly, fridge, freezer and a few other bits and pieces.

Picture of it and the change-over switch just added to the files area ...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/files/Generator/

M




----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Generators


>
> > 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
>
>
>
>
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