'Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Blimey not you as well Keith. Are'nt you taking the ukmo 'Shot in the
Dark' forecast too seriously?

Anyone out there prepared to barter some Squirrel skins fork candles?

It's not so much the ukmo forecast it's more of the state I beleive that
the UK and Global resources are currently in. It wouldn't take much to tip
it over the balance.
Look how the gas price has gone up, most of our electricity generation is
gas fired generators.
We also now rely on a lot of gas imports, coming from the continent and
further.

Just imagine a freezing week running upto Christmas, then all the cookers
go on Christmas morning. I don't want to be caught 'cold turkey' grin

I guess it's also a bit of an insurance policy.
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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net

**cease lurking**

Keith

I have a 3.5KVa Honda generator as backup. The house has a manual transfer
switch (which isolates the mains and selects the generator as power source)
fitted 'upstream' of the consumer unit (fitted professionally before we
bought the house). I simply start the generator, 'plug it in' to the
transfer switch, turn the circuit breaker on (on the generator) and throw
the transfer switch.

We find that this happily runs the house, and importantly, runs the pump to
provide us with drinking water from our well. The house heating is gas. The
PC (and in fact all electrical equipment) works fine. Obviously, if I try
using an electric kettle, it throws the circuit breaker on the genertor
UNLESS I turn off every other appliance and light.

I hope this answers your question,

--
Henry.
Clyst Valley
Exeter
20m asl

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