RE: Generators

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Mark's advice is thoroughly sound!

A friend of mine lives about an hour north of Montreal. He did a
self-build in the early 90s following his previous (20s) house burning
down.

A couple of winters ago, their local power supply was out for _6_DAYS_,
and it was about -20 outside!

Fortunately, they put in a generator. By the second day, they had 20
local children staying with them ;-)

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 February 2002 09:11
To: Ukha_D@Yahoogroups. Com
Subject: [ukha_d] Generators


<RANT MODE>
We suffered a NINE HOUR power cut yesterday (approx 2:30pm to 11:30pm).
NIE
are so crap it's unbelievable.  After 4 hours of trying to get through
to
them on the phone they admitted they still hadn't found the fault.  6
hours
after the cut they were STILL looking for it.  NI has the most expensive
electricity prices in Europe and yet the service still stinks.
</RANT MODE>

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.

M.
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