Re: Trader4 was right?? gensets vs. car inverters.....

Nov 08, 2012 14 Replies



> Now, this unit may not be for everyone, and here are some of the > pro's/con's.
>
> Like virtually all "affordable" units, this thing will sound like a
> goddamm lawnmower -- don't listen to those bullshit decibel claims.
> A true automotive muffler might help (either replacing the original,
> or placed in series with the existing) can help a bit, but a
> sound-proofed enclosure box is a better (albeit more troublesome)
> solution. If you want an intrinsically quiiet unit, quiet will
> double, triple the price at a given wattage, eg, the Honda EU series.
> Or buy an Onan.... lol But actually, you can find them on craig's
> list, rel. cheap. Just have yer fork lift ready.....

The nice thing about the "quiet" gensets (Honda, et al) is that they enable you to easily hear your neighbor's "not quiet" gensets.

I was JUST emailing someone on that point!! I just read somewhere -- on a generator website, iirc -- that some home-moaner "associations" ban generators, no doubt for those reasons. As the generator solution becomes more common, it's going to be like an industrial war zone around here, during outages.... and QOL is already near-zero.

Hey, remember where I spent my formative youth - in the Granada Hills C.O. generator room drooling at the Genset - Mitsubishi V-16 quad turbo Tugboat engine and a generator head 48" across and long - 750 KW continuous at 277/480V, 1 MW surge. Radiator up on the roof. Four 8D batteries in series/parallel.

GTE/Verizon knows how to build a Generator Room.

Well, except for Sunland where back in the Forties California Water & Telephone had put the fuel tank in the Uphill side of the parking lot way above the generator in the Basement, and in the 70's a fuel supply hose to the Day Tank broke and the resulting siphon action half flooded the basement with #2 Diesel...

They dug a huge crater in the parking lot to get the top of the tank below the floor of the basement - and Sunland is all built on alluvial free-running sand, and true to form it started free-running...

After the rapidly expanding crater chewed up all the asphalt for 60 feet and headed for the property lines, they filled the crater with

50+ truckloads of One-Sack Slurry and let it set, and tried again.

The second time the top layer of Slurry held, but when they got below the plug the sand tried running out from underneath again - Fill it up with slurry again...

The third time (or was it fourth?) the slurry held the last of the sand back long enough to pour a concrete bathtub with 25' walls, and strap down the new fiberglass tank. Topped off with ~16 - 18 feet of pea gravel.

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No you didn't

?The James Carville "herd of cows" quote is a fabrication, posted on th e website thinkexist.com by someone going by thisoneworks. It has no attribution. Just another conservative propagandistic fabrication as far as I can tell.?

-- James Carville

No you didn't ================================================

Heh, I was wondering about that myself..... I was thinking, Is Gummer confabulating (again), this time *to my very face*???? By golly, I think he WAS!!! Or was he just lying.... again.... LOL!!!

Still, ahm tryna get my room back.... even if it is in a CA hovel....

Worst case of Kidney stones, EVER! ;-)

Cites?

Power to da Pipples! It its from the mouth of a Democrat, true or not..its Da Truth!!

Its the law!!

Gunner

Only a retard would ask for citation for something that didn't happen.

+100!!!! There goes another keyboard..... LOL

Im a Registered Democrat and anything I say, true or false..is believable! Its part of being a Demonrat!!

If you dont believe me..Im calling the SJEU!!!

Gunner

Sorry..brain fart.

SEIU. THey have really good lawyers! And I get one free! Im a Democrat!!

Gunner

Excellent cite!! Specifically regarding Gummer,

-------------------- B. Concurrent deficits or impairments in present adaptive functioning (i.e., the person's effectiveness in meeting the standards expected for his or her age by his or her cultural group) in at least two of the following areas: communication, self-care, home living, social/interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, functional academic skills, work, leisure, health, and safety.

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I guess confabulation/chronic lying/childish menacing fall under a different diagnostic category.... LOL

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