Major ICE storm

[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.

[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`"
wrote:
>
> 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.
>

[David Brady]

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`"
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
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[Mike Hohnstein]

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`"
wrote:
>
> 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.
>





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[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" 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`"
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>

[adieu2y]

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`"
wrote:
>
> 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" 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`"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
>

[chetg@...]

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:
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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.



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