Generator Bad Weather
All. . . . . Can portable generators be used during rain/snow storms? Do they have to be protected from the elements? thanks . . . ken
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Nice stuff until a Category IV hurricane comes along. Seen everything from Hondas to Onans with connecting rods bent sticking through the crankcase because the engine chug-a-lugged enough water to raise the compression ratio to infinity.
Common (or is it Uncommon?) sense should be used. Electrical does not like water.
Send that home builder down here with his Honda 2000 and if it stays running 10-seconds after sticking it out in the eyewall I'll kiss his *** Bring the dog. Ever see a dog pass by a window doing a hundred and forty? Vertical 5 mph rain is one thing horizontal 140 mph rain quite another.
The Kubota gets a 5mm plastic sheet first layer then a trucker's cargo grade tarp over top. Then a 4" wide ratchet cinch trucker's cargo strap gets sucked around the oval generator concrete base. Same for the Trace 4024. if the storm can carry the Rolls 2-volt cells away it can have them. Hurricanes are murder. Stuff that stays bone dry during torrential tropical storm downpours, become sopping wet swamps in a +2 or stronger hurricane. Windows get inch and an eighth subfloor plywood. Doors are 1/8" steel with four hinges and four latches floor to ceiling. This is on the casa. The gen shed is concrete with a K-monel door. Quicksilver is bullet-proof.
All that is needed is common sense. I knew people who bought a new car and NEVER serviced it then traded it in every 5-years. They were always glad to sit someone down and bend their elbow convincing them of how much money they saved. One of the loudest had a carburetor fire in his '55 Buick, which burned the car to the ground and started a 100-acre range fire. He has saved uncounted dollars carrying only liability insurance which refused to pay a seventeen thousand dollar BLM fine for putting out the fire. Pretty fartsmeller.
Common (or is it Uncommon?) sense should be used. Electrical does not like water.
Send that home builder down here with his Honda 2000 and if it stays running 10-seconds after sticking it out in the eyewall I'll kiss his *** Bring the dog. Ever see a dog pass by a window doing a hundred and forty? Vertical 5 mph rain is one thing horizontal 140 mph rain quite another.
The Kubota gets a 5mm plastic sheet first layer then a trucker's cargo grade tarp over top. Then a 4" wide ratchet cinch trucker's cargo strap gets sucked around the oval generator concrete base. Same for the Trace 4024. if the storm can carry the Rolls 2-volt cells away it can have them. Hurricanes are murder. Stuff that stays bone dry during torrential tropical storm downpours, become sopping wet swamps in a +2 or stronger hurricane. Windows get inch and an eighth subfloor plywood. Doors are 1/8" steel with four hinges and four latches floor to ceiling. This is on the casa. The gen shed is concrete with a K-monel door. Quicksilver is bullet-proof.
All that is needed is common sense. I knew people who bought a new car and NEVER serviced it then traded it in every 5-years. They were always glad to sit someone down and bend their elbow convincing them of how much money they saved. One of the loudest had a carburetor fire in his '55 Buick, which burned the car to the ground and started a 100-acre range fire. He has saved uncounted dollars carrying only liability insurance which refused to pay a seventeen thousand dollar BLM fine for putting out the fire. Pretty fartsmeller.
