It would be an interesting discussion what you people do, when you have power outtage like me right now.
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Drive a car? We got a small genny that gets dragged out during an outage
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I started a print five minutes before this happened.
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Oof, at least it didn’t cut near the end of a 2 day print…it’s infuriating when that happens
How do you savages not have your printers on a UPS?
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I charge my board before the outage then ride it when powers out.
Once that’s depleted I just sit and contemplate my life because everything I do needs internet and power.
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But hey power panic feature, if you print with a sd card.
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Would be an idea, but costwise…
This.
Also update your firmware. Marlin has print resume after power outage now.
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Light some candles, have a drink to get in the mood… if the wife is out practice onanistic pursuits.
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The inlet is 2 phase (240v).
The gennie is single phase (110v).
I have a nasty hack cable that ties both hots on the gennie input to the single hot on the 5-15 plug on the honda. I put a kill-a-watt inline so I know how much juice the house is pulling. Switchover procedure is:
- turn off mains breaker
- turn off all 2 gang breakers (240v)
- turn off all nonessential breakers (all breakers are marked)
- flip interlock
- fire up gennie
- plug it in
The house runs on less than 100w idle 
Gas heat works, all lights are LED and work. The fridge works. The FIOS and router/ap work. The laser printer pops the gennie breaker The home theater works, but the plasma sucks like 800w. I have 1600w constant 2000w burst available.
In eco mode the generator can run like a day with the onboard 1gallon tank. The 5 gallon aux tank lets me run a few days, and I can refill without shutting down. I have a few metal 5gal jerry cans with stabilized fuel.
I have a 2nd generator I can hook up in parallel if needed.
Everything seems hacky but is really well researched and tested. The only dicey thing is the hack 1phase <-> 2phase cable, so the switchover procedure is very important, and random joes can’t do the switchover. But in theory can just run a 2 phase generator, and that issue goes away.
So all this shit seems cray cray, but I had been building up to it for like 2 years thinking I’m nuts, and a few months after completion, Sandy hit and I was watching movies with surround sound on my plasma.
Typical portable generator setups have a mini subpanel, and you choose which outlets will have generator power. Costs a pretty penny. Fuck that. I choose which outlets are lit by flipping the breaker.
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Drink and sexy time with the lady is usually my go to. I take a break from riding my board and ride something else if you know what I mean 
(ps please dont ban me for this)
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8000w generator. Gets the job done like there wasn’t a power outage. Since my hot water and furnace are gas I really dont lose any comforts.
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Nice my old house had a breaker box for a generator. Just flip it to the other panel and turn on the generator and you are good to go!
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Mine is usually esk8 til my board(s) die, and then sit for an hour til my electronics die… Then finally analog skate and remember that I drained my boards in the first 2h of the power outage already…