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Bummer on the power raise next year.....
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The area we live is filled with trees. Huge number of evergreen and a fair amount of deciduous trees as well. We do not have any overhanging trees on our roof and our power lines are underground in our neighborhood. But once you get down outside our neighborhood we have poles with power lines attached above gound.you must not be close to giant trees.
When I was planning for a house a while back, I wanted to get on rural with trees around it. One day it snowed really heavy and the tree was buried with snow. I called the apartment landlord and I told them that the tree is leaning and pointed towards us. Knowing some typical apartment manager the the only thing he does is he lets his wife do all the building works while he's shining his pickup. I finally figured out that the future I will have with that apartment manager will be equals to NOTHING. Later on I bought a house with controlled tree height surroundings.
I am surrounded by tall trees. A number of them are tall enough to hit the house and cause some serious damage. In 2014 I had the trees thinned significantly.you must not be close to giant trees.
When I was planning for a house a while back, I wanted to get on rural with trees around it. One day it snowed really heavy and the tree was buried with snow. I called the apartment landlord and I told them that the tree is leaning and pointed towards us. Knowing some typical apartment manager the the only thing he does is he lets his wife do all the building works while he's shining his pickup. I finally figured out that the future I will have with that apartment manager will be equals to NOTHING. Later on I bought a house with controlled tree height surroundings.
My private road has underground utilities, but once out to the public road then everything is above ground on poles.The area we live is filled with trees. Huge number of evergreen and a fair amount of deciduous trees as well. We do not have any overhanging trees on our roof and our power lines are underground in our neighborhood. But once you get down outside our neighborhood we have poles with power lines attached above gound.
Right on. Did you build a bunker?My private road has underground utilities, but once out to the public road then everything is above ground on poles.
No. My property is more or less the same as when I bought it - with the exception of the logging operations and some crude landscaping.Right on. Did you build a bunker?
Hopefully they get it done asap. Its gonna be dark soon.ETA changed to 6 PM
Not a big deal - I have lighting and I have my batteries to supply power to my router and charge my laptop. If they don't get it fixed by tomorrow I can always deploy my genset. The neighbors have their generator running - I can hear it (slightly) when I go out to the shop.Hopefully they get it done asap. Its gonna be dark soon.
I guess I need to get a new UPS.
Yeah - I have some laundry that needs to be done, and I want to take a shower before I hit the sack. Plus I want to charge some stuff and get the fridge running again.Hopefully they get it running soon. Its better to have full power especially in rainy nights
I might. I've run it down a few times during an outage, and since they are probably SLA batteries they probably got damaged due to the usage.But also consider just replacing the UPS batteries. I've done that with good success, but they do go bad a lot sooner than I would expect. If that doesn't work, you might have to replace the UPS, but if you get the same model at least you will have an extra set of batteries. I've replaced batteries, and then ultimately I replaced the UPS when the battery replacement no longer worked.
It already had some things plugged into it, and it lasted about 20 minutes, when it should have lasted about 90 minutes.Easy test for the UPS: Just unplug the UPS input power from your wall outlet and see how long it maintains power to your devices. However ... you might not want to do this with a PC up and running, you don't want it to lose power while it's writing to your hard drive. I think I would power down the pc first, and just have a 60 or 100 W lamp plugged into the UPS before you unplug the UPS from the wall.
Puzzling that anything to do with your normal power would somehow cause your backup EM. lights to not function during a power outtage? Those lights should come on anytime the power is off if they're properly connected.I was right about the battery backed bulbs; the PGE crew must be working on the outage because my battery backed lights suddenly came on, but the power has not been restored yet. Maybe something to do with a ground or something.
This was all one year and two days ago. The massive piles of windfall brush were cleared up within a couple of weeks. By December, I had all the big logs and larger limb wood bucked, carried and stacked. The past couple of weeks, I started burning some of that wood which by now has seasoned out. Four months without rain this Summer aids in that process. I dug out the broken septic drain field line and spliced in a new section. As long as I was at it, I installed a new riser in the line where the repair was made. It never hurts to have an access port in case some time in the future it has to be inspected/jetted out.A lesser hardship practice run. We just got through a power outage of 90 hours. We are soft, weak and addicted to electric power. In our county, we were blessed with the focal point of a 50 mph wind storm barreling down the Strait of Juan de Fuca. I've got weeks work of outside work as a result.
We have equipment for power outages, but our house doesn't include the switch panel for a generator. So I rig cords running around, tripping hazards which we were somehow able to avoid. I have emergency fuel stashed away, aux. lights. etc. Thankfully I burn wood for extra heat when needed, and that was a major plus considering the overnight temperatures went into the 30's a couple of nights. There is a propane stove for heating water and some cooking.
We live on wooded property, I've taken as much care as possible to keep stuff from falling on our house. But our property is mostly wooded, hundreds of trees including Big Leaf Maple up to 165 years old. Those old maples are craggy, lightning struck over the years, lots of newer wood straight up. Out in the north end of the property, I had some serious wind falls. There are a couple of 40 foot logs laying side by side, and another that would be well over 40 feet exept that impact on the ground broke it in three lengths. All of these in turn had 20 plus feet of lesser brush growing from the tops, plus there were many smaller wind falls, plus lots of smaller, standing dead stuff that was blown down. Of course when those tree tops break off, they tear off all sorts of lower stuff that comes down with them.