Major ICE storm

[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.
>