[Info-vax] We regret to inform (VMS uptime)

[Rich Jordan]

On Aug 25, 1:19 pm, Rob Brown <mylastn... at gmcl.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 at 08:47 -0700, Rich Jordan wrote:
> > We're in the market for a generator at home.  Since we're in a
> > townhouse with attached garage we cannot store gasoline (more than 1
> > gallon), but I can have a propane BBQ and keep an extra 20 pound
> > full bottle.  A diesel genset would be great since I could store
> > fuel for it, but they're too heavy for my wife to handle and very
> > expensive for properly built ones (not no-name chinese).
>
> No natural gas service available?  Generac, for example, makes
> automatic, prepackaged, natural gas powered backup power for
> residential use.  And natural gas won't go out the same time as your
> electricity does.
>
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>
> Rob Brown                        b r o w n a t g m c l d o t c o m
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NG won't go out right away, but around here thanks to EPA it will go
down within a few days if the outage is widespread enough.  Not likely
but possible.

Townhome.  HOA.  No external user-usable NG connection and no option
to put a permanent genset in place with a fixed NG connection.  The
tri-fuel unit is actually capable of running off NG, but that option
is not possible where we're at.