On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)

"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
news:1129633675.f7992e59f2bb573b08fb81a998f095e9@t eranews...
On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is
concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of
a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And
that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on
electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)

Kinda tough to run 4 tons of AC on a car battery.

On a sunny day (Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:30:02 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :


"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
news:1129633675.f7992e59f2bb573b08fb81a998f095e9@ teranews...
On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is
concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of
a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And
that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on
electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)

Kinda tough to run 4 tons of AC on a car battery.
AC is measured in Watts, 4 kW?
100A/h 12V battery, 70 % efficiency converter 1200 x .7 = 840 W/h available AC.
So 840 / 4000 = .21 hours = 12.6 minutes.