We had the same problem a last year with an ice storm knocking power out for days. Fortunately we had the foresight to buy a generator. Ours is a 6000 watt portable gas model we found on sale at a local home improvement store ($600 I think) I did the wiring myself (not an expert but I can make sparks when I want) All I did was put a 220V breaker in the junction box in one of our outbuildings and ran a piece of four wire romex to a male twist lock plug. To power the entire farm I simply throw the main switch disconnecting us from the utility at the pole (MANDATORY you don't want to fry some poor utility worker when they are trying to repair what should be a dead line) start the generator, plug the wire into the 220v outlet and turn on the breaker. Viola 6k watts runs our furnace, lights, well pump and cattle waterer; that's all we really need. This is not up to "code" but works very well and costs less that $50
This is very interesting in terms of market dominance to me as well. We closed our Ebay store nearly a year ago because we saw the fee hikes coming, and were already having trouble making it pencil. I have been struggling with many problems recently in our business that are hitting the same wall of "We don't care because you can't go anywhere else" I remember it used to be if you squawked enough you could get a little satisfaction, now all that seems possible and available is a "Sincere apology for the inconvenience" and I am really tired of it. If someone does business with our company and is unhappy for any reason, we take every step to make them happy! Why are so many companies losing sight of the long term for short term gains?
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We had the same problem a last year with an ice storm knocking power out for days. Fortunately we had the foresight to buy a generator. Ours is a 6000 watt portable gas model we found on sale at a local home improvement store ($600 I think) I did the wiring myself (not an expert but I can make sparks when I want) All I did was put a 220V breaker in the junction box in one of our outbuildings and ran a piece of four wire romex to a male twist lock plug. To power the entire farm I simply throw the main switch disconnecting us from the utility at the pole (MANDATORY you don't want to fry some poor utility worker when they are trying to repair what should be a dead line) start the generator, plug the wire into the 220v outlet and turn on the breaker. Viola 6k watts runs our furnace, lights, well pump and cattle waterer; that's all we really need. This is not up to "code" but works very well and costs less that $50
This is very interesting in terms of market dominance to me as well. We closed our Ebay store nearly a year ago because we saw the fee hikes coming, and were already having trouble making it pencil. I have been struggling with many problems recently in our business that are hitting the same wall of "We don't care because you can't go anywhere else" I remember it used to be if you squawked enough you could get a little satisfaction, now all that seems possible and available is a "Sincere apology for the inconvenience" and I am really tired of it. If someone does business with our company and is unhappy for any reason, we take every step to make them happy! Why are so many companies losing sight of the long term for short term gains?
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