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Major ICE storm - Bob & Carol Howald` - 12-03-2006 04:05 Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the place looks like a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45 hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000 # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol 93pt40,Il. Major ICE storm - adieu2y - 12-03-2006 06:48 Bob, Happy to hear you are surviving the storm. With your BB outside you must be doing better than most. We're in Co. visiting our grand children and trying to survive 7 - 10 degree with our Gen. and Wabasto running non- stop. We have tried to run shore power to the coach so I could free load off our children's electricity instead of my diesel. Why doesn't the coach like our set up? We ran 35 ft. of #10/4 from the service panel to a 50 amp female box and pluged in the shore power cord. My lights show green but the inverters do not show any bulk /float charging. Any thoughts? Jack VanDenBerg 05 lxi in Boulder. --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`" > > Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of > ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All > electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the > place looks like > a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the > kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we > powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot > plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45 > hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait > to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air > over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack > stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use > 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000 > # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! > Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol > 93pt40,Il. > Major ICE storm - David Brady - 12-03-2006 07:20 Hi Bob, My guess would be that you're trying to draw too many amps thru a small gauge wire. For a 35 ft run with 50 amp service you should use #4 or maybe #6. Using only #10 may be resulting in too much of a voltage drop resulting in the inverters refusal to go into bulk charge. David Brady '02 LXi, Smokey Va, soon to be NC adieu2y wrote: > Bob, Happy to hear you are surviving the storm. With your BB outside > you must be doing better than most. > We're in Co. visiting our grand children and trying to survive 7 - 10 > degree with our Gen. and Wabasto running non- stop. We have tried to > run shore power to the coach so I could free load off our children's > electricity instead of my diesel. > Why doesn't the coach like our set up? We ran 35 ft. of #10/4 from > the service panel to a 50 amp female box and pluged in the shore power > cord. My lights show green but the inverters do not show any bulk > /float charging. Any thoughts? Jack VanDenBerg 05 lxi in Boulder. > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`" > > >> Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of >> ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All >> electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the >> place looks like >> a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the >> kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we >> powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot >> plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45 >> hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait >> to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air >> over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack >> stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use >> 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000 >> # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! >> Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol >> 93pt40,Il. >> >> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Major ICE storm - Mike Hohnstein - 12-03-2006 07:20 Did you shut down the gen set a give the transfer switch a little time to get miscombobulated after you plugged in? MH ----- Original Message ----- From: adieu2y To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Major ICE storm Bob, Happy to hear you are surviving the storm. With your BB outside you must be doing better than most. We're in Co. visiting our grand children and trying to survive 7 - 10 degree with our Gen. and Wabasto running non- stop. We have tried to run shore power to the coach so I could free load off our children's electricity instead of my diesel. Why doesn't the coach like our set up? We ran 35 ft. of #10/4 from the service panel to a 50 amp female box and pluged in the shore power cord. My lights show green but the inverters do not show any bulk /float charging. Any thoughts? Jack VanDenBerg 05 lxi in Boulder. --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`" > > Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of > ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All > electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the > place looks like > a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the > kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we > powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot > plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45 > hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait > to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air > over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack > stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use > 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000 > # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! > Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol > 93pt40,Il. > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Major ICE storm - Bob & Carol Howald` - 12-03-2006 08:11 Jack: Sorry, I don't know much about the late model coach's. I do know that I have powered my 93 from 50amp service here at home using 10-3 cord's (30amp-120 cheater at the 50amp box)with excellent result's. Try that use your 30amp cord.?? Going to warm up here Tuesday, how about there?......Bob 93pt Illinois In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "adieu2y" > > Bob, Happy to hear you are surviving the storm. With your BB outside > you must be doing better than most. > We're in Co. visiting our grand children and trying to survive 7 - 10 > degree with our Gen. and Wabasto running non- stop. We have tried to > run shore power to the coach so I could free load off our children's > electricity instead of my diesel. > Why doesn't the coach like our set up? We ran 35 ft. of #10/4 from > the service panel to a 50 amp female box and pluged in the shore power > cord. My lights show green but the inverters do not show any bulk > /float charging. Any thoughts? Jack VanDenBerg 05 lxi in Boulder. > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`" > > > > > Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of > > ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All > > electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the > > place looks like > > a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the > > kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we > > powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot > > plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45 > > hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait > > to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air > > over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack > > stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use > > 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000 > > # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! > > Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol > > 93pt40,Il. > > > Major ICE storm - adieu2y - 12-03-2006 11:01 Bob, The heavier wire did the trick. We switched to #6 and all is well. Now I can turn the gen. off and save fuel. I wanted to pull the slides in and go refuel howeverthe roof is covered with snow and ice so the sides won't retrack properly. I will make a few trips with 5 gal. cans. The weather is warming all next week to the high 40s so the roof will be clear soon. Thank you David for the advice. jack vandenberg 05 lxi --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`" > > Jack: Sorry, I don't know much about the late model coach's. I do > know that I have powered my 93 from 50amp service here at home using > 10-3 cord's (30amp-120 cheater at the 50amp box)with excellent > result's. Try that use your 30amp cord.?? Going to warm up here > Tuesday, how about there?......Bob 93pt Illinois > > > > > In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "adieu2y" > > > > Bob, Happy to hear you are surviving the storm. With your BB > outside > > you must be doing better than most. > > We're in Co. visiting our grand children and trying to survive 7 - > 10 > > degree with our Gen. and Wabasto running non- stop. We have tried to > > run shore power to the coach so I could free load off our children's > > electricity instead of my diesel. > > Why doesn't the coach like our set up? We ran 35 ft. of #10/4 > from > > the service panel to a 50 amp female box and pluged in the shore > power > > cord. My lights show green but the inverters do not show any bulk > > /float charging. Any thoughts? Jack VanDenBerg 05 lxi in Boulder. > > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Bob & Carol Howald`" > > > > > > > > Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" > of > > > ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. > All > > > electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage > and the > > > place looks like > > > a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started > the > > > kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension > cords. we > > > powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights > hot > > > plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. > for 45 > > > hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in > everything)..Can't wait > > > to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # > air > > > over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # > jack > > > stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I > ocasionally use > > > 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use > a 4000 > > > # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! > > > Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol > > > 93pt40,Il. > > > > > > Major ICE storm - chetg@... - 12-03-2006 12:28 Hi Bob & Carol, Just got back from South Padre at noon today. Windy and cool in South Padre (low of 45 Friday morning), but warmed up nicely to low to mid 60's during the day. Shrimp was great. Ate them three times a day. Have a great trip. Chet Geist 1981 FC33, Austin, Texas Original Message: ----------------- From: Bob & Carol Howald` rhowald@... Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:05:26 +0000 To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Major ICE storm Well, we've had our major storm here in the midwest. Got about 1" of ice on Thursday night and about 4 inch's of snow on top of that. All electric was off in most of our area. We had major tree damage and the place looks like a bomb went off. We lost our electricity for 46 hours. I started the kabota generator in the coach and ran 125' of 10-3 extension cords. we powered 2 hi-eff. furnaces plus 3 refers plus numberous lights hot plate's etc plus the coach heat. No problem at all. ran the gen. for 45 hrs continuiously. (glad I use Synthetic oil in everything)..Can't wait to get to South Padre! On the other topic, I use 2 24,000 # air over hyd jack's when working on the coach and then place 12000 # jack stands. When feeling uncomfortable about the blocking I ocasionally use 6x6 wood blocks that I use with the boat blocking. I have to use a 4000 # floor jack just to lift the front of my dodge diesel truck! Looking forward to thaw here in the heart land. Bob&Carol 93pt40,Il. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . |