Wife is now a green iron believer

[155mm]

We had a spring snow storm this past weekend, and lost power. I have a small 6K comm'l gas genny that we use for those times when we expect our electricity to be off for a short amount of time. It works great to keep the heater and wifi going, but about nothing else. Electricity went off about 5 am so I flip all the breakers off except for the heat, drag out the lil 'en, plug it in, and go back to bed. Well the sun comes up, wife tries to make coffee, bogged down the lil one, she's not a happy camper now.


Upon closer inspection of our power issues we find 2 poles across from our house broken, and our feeder line dangling in the trees. Ok, this isnt going to be a quick fix. Wife still isnt happy about no coffee, so I go start a 5T hook up to a 804a drag it around and plug in. Come back in the house, wife is following me around like a lost puppy, so I flip all the breakers back on, she has the funniest look on her face, and she says 'Why did you do that?' my response was 'Because I can.'

She didnt understand that we can operate like normal when I hook up green iron, not just stay warm. She gets to shower, cook, clean, do laundry... everything just like line power, oh and make coffee.



We will be producing power for a few days, electric coop estimates 250 poles down, and we live at the end of 2 seperate lines, we will be last on the totem pole to get power, but thats not a problem.


Out of 1 mile of poles, there are only 2 left standing.

So I now have made a believer out of her that there is a reason why all that 'junk' is parked out back. I am posting this everywhere so that when I want to buy some more 'junk' its easier to remind her.

That puts a big smile on my face, I get a blank check for more green iron.

 

[ageregunner]

The green generator has always made my wife happy. The big green truck, not so much.

 

[frank8003]

You get one big fat "Attaboy" !

 

[red]

Sucks your power is out but her response is funny haha

 

[M35A2-AZ]

Glad you had the Gen. Always good to have back up power.

 

[Scar59]

now the neighbors will want one. Stay warm.

 

[155mm]

The morning update from the electric coop just increased the downed poles to 500 with estimates to increase after today's inspections. Looks like I will be filling up a portable fuel tank instead of jerry cans.

 

[155mm]

now the neighbors will want one. Stay warm.

if they feel froggy, i do have a 30 that can go live somewhere else

 

[robertsears1]

Have you done anything to try to balance out the load on the phases? I understand that you need juice when you need need juice, but this is a three phase only generator. This will be a good test of the note that states that damage may result from unbalanced loads, here is some real world usage. Your situation sounds like a long term kind of thing, good luck.

Robert

 

[155mm]

Not concerned about balance. Using less than 20% capacity, and i have a load tester if needed

 

[M35A2-AZ]

You need the MEP-805b back, LOL

 

[General Hood]

We had a spring snow storm this past weekend, and lost power. I have a small 6K comm'l gas genny that we use for those times when we expect our electricity to be off for a short amount of time. It works great to keep the heater and wifi going, but about nothing else. Electricity went off about 5 am so I flip all the breakers off except for the heat, drag out the lil 'en, plug it in, and go back to bed. Well the sun comes up, wife tries to make coffee, bogged down the lil one, she's not a happy camper now.


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Upon closer inspection of our power issues we find 2 poles across from our house broken, and our feeder line dangling in the trees. Ok, this isnt going to be a quick fix. Wife still isnt happy about no coffee, so I go start a 5T hook up to a 804a drag it around and plug in. Come back in the house, wife is following me around like a lost puppy, so I flip all the breakers back on, she has the funniest look on her face, and she says 'Why did you do that?' my response was 'Because I can.'

She didnt understand that we can operate like normal when I hook up green iron, not just stay warm. She gets to shower, cook, clean, do laundry... everything just like line power, oh and make coffee.

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We will be producing power for a few days, electric coop estimates 250 poles down, and we live at the end of 2 seperate lines, we will be last on the totem pole to get power, but thats not a problem.

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Out of 1 mile of poles, there are only 2 left standing.

So I now have made a believer out of her that there is a reason why all that 'junk' is parked out back. I am posting this everywhere so that when I want to buy some more 'junk' its easier to remind her.

That puts a big smile on my face, I get a blank check for more green iron.

Time to set your wife up with her own GP account . We lost power as well, but our MEP saved the day (and night)

 

[M35A2-AZ]

About three summers ago we had a summer storm come though and it took down 27 poles along the road that feeds our house. We were down about 7 hours.

 

[Triple Jim]

I'm lucky that my wife understood why I bought an 003A, and learned how to operate it in case I'm not around.

 

[frank8003]

I'm lucky that my wife understood why I bought an 003A, and learned how to operate it in case I'm not around.

Gee, what the heck more could one guy would want !!

 

[Guyfang]

Dude, tell your wife to call me next time she complains about you buying that "old junk". If I can convince my wife to marry me, I can convince yours to not only get with the program, but to also boost the amount you need to REALLY do it right. There is strength in numbers!!!

 

[Triple Jim]

Gee, what the heck more could one guy would want !!

Imagine my surprise the first time I was out and drove back into the driveway, and heard the generator running.

 

[Light in the Dark]

We had a spring snow storm this past weekend, and lost power. I have a small 6K comm'l gas genny that we use for those times when we expect our electricity to be off for a short amount of time. It works great to keep the heater and wifi going, but about nothing else. Electricity went off about 5 am so I flip all the breakers off except for the heat, drag out the lil 'en, plug it in, and go back to bed. Well the sun comes up, wife tries to make coffee, bogged down the lil one, she's not a happy camper now.


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Upon closer inspection of our power issues we find 2 poles across from our house broken, and our feeder line dangling in the trees. Ok, this isnt going to be a quick fix. Wife still isnt happy about no coffee, so I go start a 5T hook up to a 804a drag it around and plug in. Come back in the house, wife is following me around like a lost puppy, so I flip all the breakers back on, she has the funniest look on her face, and she says 'Why did you do that?' my response was 'Because I can.'

She didnt understand that we can operate like normal when I hook up green iron, not just stay warm. She gets to shower, cook, clean, do laundry... everything just like line power, oh and make coffee.

View attachment 678537

We will be producing power for a few days, electric coop estimates 250 poles down, and we live at the end of 2 seperate lines, we will be last on the totem pole to get power, but thats not a problem.

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Out of 1 mile of poles, there are only 2 left standing.

So I now have made a believer out of her that there is a reason why all that 'junk' is parked out back. I am posting this everywhere so that when I want to buy some more 'junk' its easier to remind her.

That puts a big smile on my face, I get a blank check for more green iron.

You should consider framing that facebook message window so you can hang it somewhere important in your home

 

[155mm]

I'm lucky that my wife understood why I bought an 003A, and learned how to operate it in case I'm not around.

Mine asked me today how to start it, so we walked thru checking oil, coolant, looking for leaks, fuel gauge, preheat start, run and volts/hz adjustments. When we got done, she said, you need to write the procedure down, I said, its on the inside of the cover that you just closed. She just 'hmft' and shrugged her shoulders, said 'thats smart'

 

[155mm]

You should consider framing that facebook message window so you can hang it somewhere important in your home

it is the lock screen on my phone so she sees it when my phone is laying around