Flooding in Ohio was RE: [AT] stiff tractor day (OT) and ramble
CBear81438 at aol.com
CBear81438 at aol.com
Fri Jan 7 04:39:27 PST 2005
In a message dated 1/6/2005 10:48:23 PM Central Standard Time,
rowilson at infinet.com writes:
Rob;
Just got power back this afternoon. Was off all last night. Have a
lot of tree damage in the yard from broken limbs. The big cedar tree has
lost about half the limbs. Have a lot of 6 inch limbs down from the
other trees.
I drove over through Jackson Center and they are much worse than we
are. Mile after mile of electric lines down and poles broken off at the
ground. Will require a lot of construction to get them back on line.
Gene (DeGraff, Ohio)
Sounds like the Oklahoma Ice storm of Jan 2002. we were off grid for 27
days....
Ran for a week on a 15 KW generator (gas) 6 cyl continental engine, used 60
gallons a day. At about 2 am it would almost die from carburetor icing.
Found out that unleaded gas has water added to lower combustion temperature.
Started adding 1 gallon of methanol to 30 gallons of gas. It ran fine then
and cleaned out the tank. Then fan belt broke at 3 am the next morning. Had
to install a belt that was too short and would not run the generator. Plugged
in a battery charger to the generator to provide electrical power for the
distributor and kept running. About 2:30 am the next morning, the fuel pump
went out. Bypassed the pump since it was a gravity system. We were trying to
run 2 houses on this generator. One was a double wide with propane heat.
the other was a superinsulated conventional with ground source heat pump. I
thought the generator was a 30 KW, but when I took al lthe covers off found
out it was only 15. The governor spring had weakened and It was only running
fast enough for 55 hz.. Really caused a heat pump to groan.... A week after
the storm we got a 75 kw generator end coupled to a 3-71 detroit. Put out
62KW continuous, also 3 phase for the shop. Connected everything up and got
it running about 12 midnight!!!! Talk about lighting up a runway..... the
115 side on a 3 phase is really about 130 volts. Ran this one for another 20
days then had to go back on generator a day later for about 12 hours.
Figured out that detroit used about 75 gallons a day!!!!!!!!! Whew!! Then
farm fuel was about $1.10 a gallon...
I have been looking for a corn burning stove to provide heat. I have a 12
kw PTO driven generator that I just got working. Bought 2 military 20 hp
diesels to couple to this genereator to provide cheaper power.. Both homes
here have elect hot water tanks. They take 3500 watts to run.. A 5KW diesel
will run a house with an electric hot water tank if you don't try to run the
dryer. A dryer takes about 4500 Watts.. I have a 10 KW backup resistance unit
in the house with the heat pump. Probably would have been better off to run
it when on generator. Heat pumps really pulls the amps... We ran the
propane heat house on the 5 KW diesel for about 36 hours on 3 gallons of fuel
!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the ramble, but maybe this experience will be beneficial to some
others if they are in the same situation..
Cecil in OKla
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