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[Dave Hala Jr]

When I lived in town the power was seldom out.  Its common here to have
a couple of 15 minute outages a month, especially during planting
season, harvest season and inclement weather. This spring there have
been two 45 minutes outages aleady. Last year a couple of outages that
lasted 4-6 hours. I didn't realize how spoiled I was when I lived in
town. 

There were also times this winter where the road was impassable for 3
days one time and 4 days another time. I'm really not that terribly
rural, its just a bad spot for utility services. It never fails that
when I have something I *really* need to get done, the power goes out.

Everything here in my office is plugged into some large ups's.  I have
an external jack that is wired directly to the main panel. The power
goes out, I flip the main breaker off, plug in the patch cable from the
generator and off I go, it takes only a couple of minutes.

My intent is to eventually run everything in my office from 100%
renewable sources -probably a combination a combination of wind and
photovoltiacs, but with a higher percentage of wind than normal.

I don't even want to talk about the "reliability/quality" of my dsl
circuit out here....


:) Dave


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 11:45 -0500, James Shoemaker wrote:
> Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> > If you lived on a gravel road outside of town you'd maintain a generator
> > and some extra food -either that or I'm a little paranoid.
> 
>    You must be paranoid.  I do live somewhat remote and have only lost 
> my power long enough for it to be a problem (2 days) once in 13 years. 
> I have relatives who live in town that have had longer/more often power 
> outages.
> 
>    As for a supply of food on hand, that's just a side affect of 
> shopping at costco.
> 
> James
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