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Re: [oletrucks] Storm Damage

To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Storm Damage
From: NSurles@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 23:36:02 EDT
Thanks for the concern.  Some of us have been busy!  I live near where I-95 
and I-40 cross, which is on the West edge of the flooded areas.  We lost 
power for several days - which taught me another lesson I didn't really want.

I ran a 5 kW generator during the power outage.  When I first hooked it up, I 
"back fed" it from the sub-panel in the workshop.  I forgot that the neutral 
in a sub-panel is not bonded to the ground.  When I connected the generator's 
neutral/ground wire, I landed it on the ground bar, not the neutral bar.  
Result is I had a "floating neutral" and everything that was plugged in saw 
about 240 V rather than 120.  TV, VCR, radios, surge suppressors.....   I'm 
at over $200 and counting.  

But I'm back on-line!

Sonny
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