TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: homepowr
to: ELVIS HARGROVE
from: CRAIG HEALY
date: 1997-09-02 22:17:00
subject: SMALL GENERATORS

-> -> "Controlled leak" was a good way to put it.  Probably run a long t
-> -> off a 100 pound propane tank.  Not surprised about the snubber dio
-> -> though.  Lots if wire in one of those valves.
->
-> I get several hours off a five gallon "Squatty body" butane tank.  La
-> real 'urricane we had I ran a _Garden hose_ over to the main 150 gal
-> storage tank, and it just sat there and hummed. But it WON'T pull
-> the AC unit, so I suffer from the humidity.
Hurricanes bother you that far west?  I'm surprised!  That's pretty good
time from a 20 pound propane bottle.  That the same as on the gas
grilles?
-> I found out about the diode, because the thing was biting the HECK
-> outa me and I decided I'd had enough of that!  Tied a diode across
-> it, and scratched the wire across the battery post and POW!  Adios
-> diode! I have some giant 5/16" stud mount transistors that I bought
-> by the pound, (15cents a pound by the bucketfull) that I have NOT
-> been able to burn out so I tied the B-C junction across the thing
-> and no more shocks! 
Heh!  Ain't surplus wunnerful?  Seems the cheap parts *never* burn
out.  Only the $20 ones...
-c-
--- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 
---------------
* Origin: Chowdanet! 20gb Amateur Radio BBS (401-331-5587) (1:323/120)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.