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To: artichokegrower

Diesel generator companies are just drooling over this as well. The problem with going all electrical is you are at the mercy of a single utility provider. I’m completely electrical where I’m at with geothermal heat and air and everything else. It was great until Duke energy bought out our local power company and jacked the rate up 40% to help “average out” their costs nationwide. Also, you get behind on your single huge bill you’re screwed completely. If there isn’t any competition between the different sources the costs are going to go sky high, just watch, it’s exactly what happened to me. I have a 25kva generator that I can attach to my tractor’s PTO and run both mine and my mothers house by back feeding into the dryer plug if needed. I know, backfeeding and all that, I just always remember to flip the main breaker is all, or if worst comes to worst pull the meter. Every house is going to have something to keep the ice cold when, not if, it all goes to hell, subdivisions will be roaring with the sound of a thousand engines on day three.


20 posted on 11/11/2019 6:40:36 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

IF you put in a interlock system with twist lock plugs, you’re perfectly legal. It doesn’t cost that much. Just saying.


66 posted on 11/11/2019 8:01:06 AM PST by BipolarBob (Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
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