Major ICE storm

[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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