Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Mike Ross:
 >JD> into the wall, and slip the flattened pipe into the TOP main fuse
 >JD> clip. She lights up really bright when Consumers' Power is ready to
 >JD> sell electricity to me again. :-)
 > 
 > Good one. I had slipped a fine wire into the mains fuse lug to a ringer,
 > to give an audible warning, just in case I was asleep at the switch.
 JD> I wouldn't want anything noisy. My habit after an extended 
 JD> outage is to stay on the generator for a while (at least 15-20 
 JD> minutes0 to make SURE that the power company is back online. 
 JD> Experience shows that they bring it back several times before 
 JD> it's 'real'.
This is a good point. I've wondered about those apparent "surges" that come 
about when this is going on,  too,  and whether the voltages might be 
swinging a bit to the high side...
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