On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:06 AM Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> > > > On Aug 25, 2021, at 10:04 AM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > > You need to make these things fool-proof. We haven't traveled in over a > year but the day we do, it's a recipe for disaster if the person that deals > with this stuff is on the road when the power goes out back at home. > > This is why I personally spent the $$ on a proper standby generator with > multiple ATS for the multiple panels. > > Yah. I suspect that a fair bit of this depends on where you live. I have a fairly rural house, and the power comes across the (Shenandoah) river, and then down an overhead feed which branches off to 6 or 8 neighbors, before running up the hill to a transformer on a pole near my house. We would lose power around once every 2 or 3 months (trees, wind, snow, etc). We installed a whole house generator (with transfer switch), and ... well, actually, just after we did this the local power company did a bunch of maintenance and now the supply is more stable, but still.... This all reminds me that I need to go and do an oil change/maintenance on the generator -- it sent me an alert the week before last that it has reached its maintenance interval, but it's been a bit too hot to do this yet... W - Jared -- The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. -- E. W. Dijkstra
