That's why I keep my old incandescent bulbs; heat. I have two bulbs near my well pump, which is in a below-ground concrete shelter and one in my barn where the water pipe enters from outside (all on plug-in thermostats). Back in the day of carbureted cars it was common to run a drop light under the hood and a blanket on top while parked.
-----Original Message----- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Randy Bennell via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12:38 PM To: OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Generator I think I have told this story before. New Year's Eve either 1974 or 1975, my wife and I were still living in Ontario. We lived in a small house heated by oil. About midnight, we realized the heat was off. I knew from experience that if it got really cold, the oil might not flow from the 250 gallon tank outside the house as my parents' house had suffered similar issues while I was growing up. I got up and got dressed to go outside and then banged on the end of the tank near the valve. That got the oil flowing again so in I went, but I was hardly back in bed when it stopped again (couldn't hear the fan running), so got up and dressed and went outside and got a trouble light from the garage and plugged it in and hung it on the valve. No more trouble that night. The heat from the 60W bulb was enough to keep the oil flowing. It was very close to -50F that night which is why we had an issue. I don't think I had ever seen it that cold before and I have not seen it that cold since. I don't think you would have any problem at -14F. Randy On 16/02/2021 6:17 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > It's not the engine itself, it's the fuel tank and the lines running > to the genset that I fear will have issues at-10°F. > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 5:37 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Generators can have block heaters. My old Winpco has a bolt on >> electric heater attached to the block. >> >> Randy >> >> On 16/02/2021 5:30 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: >>> i've been trying to choose between Diesel and propane for a whole >>> house generator, and decided in favor of propane due to this -14°F >>> night. I >> have >>> doubts that a Diesel genset would have started when they turned to >>> power off at 7AM this morning. >> >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
