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MEXICOWANDERER
Oct 05, 2016Explorer
I glance at two LEDs and know what's happening. I have had too many neon pilots start flickering then quit. But I am in a different situation with now-you-see-it-now-you don't public power.
We went through a 3-day outage last week when a Coca-Cola truck went off the highway and snared a transmission line pole (1 of twin poles). The cross brace tipped, the pole went horizontal and dragged the wires off adjoining poles. That 2-mile stretch of sodden marsh has caused more outages than I care to count. They need to pile-drive around each tower. Good luck with that.
The LED's in the bedroom shine so I just have to open my eyes and there they are. Same with the galley and same in the gen-shed. By itself my 5K window air unit wouldn't be a problem, but with 3 28CF freezers, the Viking and fans and lights and ... the battery bank is good for X number of hours. The freezers run almost constantly. And no, this isn't the <75 kWh shack in Baja California. This will be my last commute for quite awhile. Today's temp is 92F with 70% R/H. The family is extracting 25-27 grams of gold per week off the beach, so for the foreseeable future they do not need grandpa.
We went through a 3-day outage last week when a Coca-Cola truck went off the highway and snared a transmission line pole (1 of twin poles). The cross brace tipped, the pole went horizontal and dragged the wires off adjoining poles. That 2-mile stretch of sodden marsh has caused more outages than I care to count. They need to pile-drive around each tower. Good luck with that.
The LED's in the bedroom shine so I just have to open my eyes and there they are. Same with the galley and same in the gen-shed. By itself my 5K window air unit wouldn't be a problem, but with 3 28CF freezers, the Viking and fans and lights and ... the battery bank is good for X number of hours. The freezers run almost constantly. And no, this isn't the <75 kWh shack in Baja California. This will be my last commute for quite awhile. Today's temp is 92F with 70% R/H. The family is extracting 25-27 grams of gold per week off the beach, so for the foreseeable future they do not need grandpa.
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