When I was out of power for a week, my computers were down. I had to
drive to my other office - where I do my classified work - just to do
anything. We could not generate invoices - we were dead in the water. I
looked around for the 3Kw Honda for the simple reason it could be used
around the house for running the frig and it would generate clean
enough power to run the computers. It is big enough to kick on an RV
A/C - the 2 Kw isn't. But there were none to be had. I can find the 1
Kw and 2 Kw models around here, but nothing else.
Do you know how much rain FL has received in the past 5 weeks? There is
no forest fire problem. Now come April that's a different story. The
other nice thing about the Honda is they have a USDA qualified spark
arrester/muffler. Not all generators do and can not (legally) use a
generator in the national forest that don't.
With a million or so without power from Ivan and almost a million still
without power from Charley and Frances - it will be awhile before there
will be many available.
Truman
Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote:
As of yesterday my local Quality
Supply had a couple of 2Kw ones for $999. I guess we are to far from
the storms here. I expect that they will not get any shipments for a
number of months. The other nice thing about the Honda generators is
they run an inverter, which is a solid state thing that produces the
120V AC. This means that they produce "clean" power that will not fry
computers and other electronics.
The potential for annoyance relates
to the time and distance. After I go to bed, even a quiet generator
right next to my rig would frost me. The noisy ones drive me nuts even
during the day. One MN ride needs a generator to pump water, and on
Sat. afternoon the RM runs the generator for 4 hours cooking supper.
Even placed 50' back in the woods, this noisy beast makes conversation
impossible when it is running.
By the way, I am aware of the forest
fire/generator connection, it just was not a problem at this ride in
MN. The same would hold true in Florida right now.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875
