12-01-2020, 02:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2020, 03:16 PM by ShadowsDad.)
We got the biggest part of the storm last night. Lots of heavy wind. It was just short of a hurricane, what we get for hurricanes anyway. Lost power at 10:30ish last night and still are without utility supplied power. Lots of rain too, I have no idea of how many inches, but it was a lot.
The storm is still happening in northern Maine, but we're just getting the tail end of it now.
Edit: Just after posting the above I went out to shut down the generator since the batteries in the PV system were charged. The plan was to run off of them for a few hours until starting up the gen' again, the same as we did last night. In doing so I made the connection to utility power in case it came back on. By the time I got back inside the inverters "saw" utility power and started to charge the batteries again. So we now have cheap power again. Or cheaper than the power I can make with the generator. Why not solar? Hey! It's heavily overcast, the PV panels are putting out squat today.
The storm is still happening in northern Maine, but we're just getting the tail end of it now.
Edit: Just after posting the above I went out to shut down the generator since the batteries in the PV system were charged. The plan was to run off of them for a few hours until starting up the gen' again, the same as we did last night. In doing so I made the connection to utility power in case it came back on. By the time I got back inside the inverters "saw" utility power and started to charge the batteries again. So we now have cheap power again. Or cheaper than the power I can make with the generator. Why not solar? Hey! It's heavily overcast, the PV panels are putting out squat today.