Dan,
Enjoyed reading your experiences with generators during your last storm..
I have never heard of an electrified gutter before !!! Amazing story.. Glad you know how to use a multimeter..
I have a nice Fluke meter and use it all the time..
I only have one Generator but its 66.6 amps and that can run a whole lot in one house alone..
Only got to help 1 neighbor who was too lazy to think about doing this..
The rest of them would just go to the nearest Hotel and rode it out there..
Amazing what you do when your "rico"...
Someday, look at your panel and perhaps think about changing it over to Square-D Breakers; they have the ones that allow you to cut off the Utility and run your generator directly to your panel via 1 big NEMA Outlet that your plug your generator into...
No more extension cords, everything in the house is on, and depending on the size of the generator, you can do about everything through any storm as long as you have gasoline,etc..
I had an Electrician come over and change the entire panel to a 200amp panel and install all Square-D Breakers in it at the same time.. The panel was really old and I hated thinking about old Breakers in there.. Can`t remember exactly how much this cost, but it was worth it to me to have it done..
They just unplug the electricity by removing the electrical meter, remove all old breakers and install new ones.. I have in the past changed out/added single breakers that were failing in their panels for neighbors..
When I painted houses for a side job, I would just bring the right breaker over, and install it in the house panel and wired a long, big extension to
a NEMA Outlet directly to the that breaker, and plug my DeVilbiss Airless into it.. No disruption to the people in the house, no having to look for an outlet, I`m making my own outlet right out of their panel...
I would go get 11 gallons of gas every year in the fall in anticipation of the almost yearly outages, and what was left over was stabilized and used for all my lawn equipment during the year, or if it got older, I would just throw it into the truck.. (89-Octane gasoline)..
Thank you for being such a great neighbor to all those around you !
Dan F
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