Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

[LouderVol]

This has to be the dumbest, most stupid, imbecilic article of the day. If you bought a male to male extension cord on Amazon, hint hint they're dangerous. This article makes it sound like every extension cord they sold is dangerous. When I was working, we called these "suicide cords" and we had to make them, but they were needed occasionally to test things.

Extension cords sold on Amazon should 'immediately' be thrown away, CPSC says

Idiots going around and shorting everything

 

[InVOLuntary]

Nice. 4x4 super duty.

Looks like from the crash bar attachment point and forward plus the left quarter panel.

Any airbag deployment?

I had to pull (redneck style) the drivers side bar and the driver's side lower support. The rest was bolt on stuff - radiator, intercooler radiator, AC condenser, grill bracket, grill, bumper assembly and the left fender. Got the passenger dash bag (whole new dash ) Got the driver's curtain, seat and wheel bags. Set belt tensioner too. Passenger bag broke the windshield.

 

[McDad]

I had to pull (redneck style) the drivers side bar and the driver's side lower support. The rest was bolt on stuff - radiator, intercooler radiator, AC condenser, grill bracket, grill, bumper assembly and the left fender. Got the passenger dash bag (whole new dash ) Got the driver's curtain, seat and wheel bags. Set belt tensioner too. Passenger bag broke the windshield.

Yeah. I hate the passenger bag because it requires the whole dash. I have avoided that bag like the plague.
Do you get your belt tensioners refurbished or do you replace?

 

[InVOLuntary]

Yeah. I hate the passenger bag because it requires the whole dash. I have avoided that bag like the plague.
Do you get your belt tensioners refurbished or do you replace?

Send it off along with the module to myairbags.

 

[Vol423]

Lots of different alcohol. Who is our resident chemist on here?
Maybe we can drink it now or at least use it in our vehicles.

Do it! Drink it!

 

[AM64]

Long but productive afternoon. The top 25 ft or so of a redwood hit by lightning came down a few weeks ago at house No 2. I got all the limbs trimmed off and the trunk cut up. Not sure how big it actually was because the bottom part was pretty splintered, but the most solid piece was at least 8 in in diameter. The Makita electric chainsaw - 16 in bar with a new chain and heavy duty extension cord cut the stuff up very well. Really a great chainsaw - expensive but worth it. Now the next major project is the new sump pump, and I'm trashing all the flexible discharge hose and going with 1 1/2" PVC, but tonight is making sure the electronics work, and tomorrow is a day of rest and football. Felt great doing a project that didn't feel like just a variant of moving deck chairs on the Titanic for a change.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Language warning….. I just stumbled across this jewel on TikTok….I felt compelled to share it with my fellow Vol brothers
R_duggan on TikTok

 

[Orangeburst]

Well that website I referenced doesn't have our game..huh

 

[NorthDallas40]

This has to be the dumbest, most stupid, imbecilic article of the day. If you bought a male to male extension cord on Amazon, hint hint they're dangerous. This article makes it sound like every extension cord they sold is dangerous. When I was working, we called these "suicide cords" and we had to make them, but they were needed occasionally to test things.

Extension cords sold on Amazon should 'immediately' be thrown away, CPSC says

Holy cow these look dangerous as hell I’m amazed they’re even allowed to sell them. In any home with 220V service you could wind up shorting out L1 and L2 also by blindly hooking these things up if you used multiple cords from a generator.

These things look like the Ghost Buster equivalent of crossing the streams.

 

[InVOLuntary]

This has to be the dumbest, most stupid, imbecilic article of the day. If you bought a male to male extension cord on Amazon, hint hint they're dangerous. This article makes it sound like every extension cord they sold is dangerous. When I was working, we called these "suicide cords" and we had to make them, but they were needed occasionally to test things.

Extension cords sold on Amazon should 'immediately' be thrown away, CPSC says

Holy cow these look dangerous as hell I’m amazed they’re even allowed to sell them. In any home with 220V service you could wind up shorting out L1 and L2 also by blindly hooking these things up if you used multiple cords from a generator.

These things look like the Ghost Buster equivalent of crossing the streams.

Lol, I've made up my own. They work great if you know what your doing.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Lol, I've made up my own. They work great if you know what your doing.

If you know what you’re doing you can probably make your own to any length you want. Your average Amazon buyer has ZERO idea what they are doing. This is why I put a generator manual transfer switch on my house after a handful of needlessly long power interruptions. Did all the work myself too.

 

[InVOLuntary]

If you know what you’re doing you can probably make your own to any length you want. Your average Amazon buyer has ZERO idea what they are doing. This is why I put a generator manual transfer switch on my house after a handful of needlessly long power interruptions. Did all the work myself too.

I made short ones but I just use extension cords. I've done it for years.

Anyone that tries this should turn off their main breaker so you're not backfeeding the main power. Also turn off all circuits you don't want to feed. I have a small Honda 3000 so I can't feed 240V stuff. My goal is to power my outlets so I have TV, fridge, internet, lights etc. I also power my furnaces in the winter. Can't do my AC in the summer.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I made short ones but I just use extension cords. I've done it for years.

Anyone that tries this should turn off their main breaker so you're not backfeeding the main power. Also turn off all circuits you don't want to feed. I have a small Honda 3000 so I can't feed 240V stuff. My goal is to power my outlets so I have TV, fridge, internet, lights etc. I also power my furnaces in the winter. Can't do my AC in the summer.

Sounds like you know what you’re going. Yes you have to isolate the circuits you’re back driving. And to be sure I’d open up the 220V circuits too bit this is admittedly just an extra precaution if you’ve isolated the circuits correctly and I realize that isn’t your case.

So many things that can go wrong with these devices in the hands of the average idiot.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I made short ones but I just use extension cords. I've done it for years.

Anyone that tries this should turn off their main breaker so you're not backfeeding the main power. Also turn off all circuits you don't want to feed. I have a small Honda 3000 so I can't feed 240V stuff. My goal is to power my outlets so I have TV, fridge, internet, lights etc. I also power my furnaces in the winter. Can't do my AC in the summer.

This is the installed version of what you’re doing. Manual transfer switch on the left. Drives 12 110V circuits in my house.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Sounds like you know what you’re going. Yes you have to isolate the circuits you’re back driving. And to be sure I’d open up the 220V circuits too bit this is admittedly just an extra precaution if you’ve isolated the circuits correctly and I realize that isn’t your case.

So many things that can go wrong with these devices in the hands of the average idiot.

I started doing this years ago out of necessity. Blizzard of '93 had us without power for several days. Fridge was warming up, freezer was thawing, we were freezing to death. Had to burn wood in the insert and we put sheets up over the family room openings to contain the heat. Had to do something. Necessity is the mother of invention.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I started doing this years ago out of necessity. Blizzard of '93 had us without power for several days. Fridge was warming up, freezer was thawing, we were freezing to death. Had to burn wood in the insert and we put sheets up over the family room openings to contain the heat. Had to do something. Necessity is the mother of invention.

My wife was pressuring me to take action and I needed to come up with a method that she could possibly implement if I wasn’t available. That is absolutely not back driving the house wiring she’d burn the house down. So it was a full up automatic full house backup power system, which is absolutely overkill in a urban area, or this manual method which she agreed to. I’d still not trust her to set it up but if I’m not available a neighbor can hook up the generator and get it outside the garage. The garage circuits are on the transfer switch so the garage doors function but the generator obviously has to be on. We put the furnaces on the transfer switch too but there is no way we could handle the stall current on the 5 ton AC compressor so no AC like you

 

[marcusluvsvols]

The pups are up 28 i think in the 2nd quarter from Columbia. We may just go 9-3 or 10-2 if the stars align....but the pups and even gumps will be tough to beat.

 

[AM64]

This is the installed version of what you’re doing. Manual transfer switch on the left. Drives 12 110V circuits in my house.

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You only have 12 110 circuits!

 

[NorthDallas40]

You only have 12 110 circuits!

No. I only have 12 110V circuits on that emergency generator. There’s probably 50 breakers in those two boxes total.

 

[AM64]

I started doing this years ago out of necessity. Blizzard of '93 had us without power for several days. Fridge was warming up, freezer was thawing, we were freezing to death. Had to burn wood in the insert and we put sheets up over the family room openings to contain the heat. Had to do something. Necessity is the mother of invention.

I moved cold food from the fridge to the deck, and used the gas stove to thaw snow to flush the toilets when the utility lost power to their pumps and there was no water either. I was good until the water went out - that was a bummer because up to that point I could still have a hot shower. The gas logs in the fireplace could heat the den ... with a quilt covering the doorway. Not great but it was warm enough in there to get by.

To me the one of the worst things we've done is massive generation of electricity with NG. Now we've made our electric power generation a direct competitor for NG. Before that we could play one against the other and keep rates in line. If electric rates got out of line, you used gas; if NG rates got unreasonable, you used more electric; now you can't win if NG rates get unreasonable, and there's no way to pressure electric rates because NG is the key ingredient in both places.

 

[AM64]

No. I only have 12 110V circuits on that emergency generator. There’s probably 50 breakers in those two boxes total.

I like that solution a lot. My circuit breaker box is about to the breaking point. I added a few circuits over the years, but the heat pump and the new 220 breakers for it really filled it up. We had gas heat up to that point, but not any electric heating like the strip heaters in the heat pump. Seems like it would be smart for new home builders to specify some critical circuit like you did and put them in a separate box in the eventuality that they add a standby power source in the future.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I like that solution a lot. My circuit breaker box is about to the breaking point. I added a few circuits over the years, but the heat pump and the new 220 breakers for it really filled it up. We had gas heat up to that point, but not any electric heating like the strip heaters in the heat pump. Seems like it would be smart for new home builders to specify some critical circuit like you did and put them in a separate box in the eventuality that they add a standby power source in the future.

Oh don’t give me that much credit there was no such planning and the 12 circuits in question are sprinkled between both boxes. And it’s not like the damn electrician would have listened anyway.

Here is a pic of me plumbing it in. I added the transfer switch after move in. We’re I to plan from the start I’d probably put a manual transfer switch on the line in and buy a 15kW generator then I could run the whole house.

Note the little box in the lower right is a whole house surge protector. I’m quite pleased with my setup

 

[VolStrom]

Oh don’t give me that much credit there was no such planning and the 12 circuits in question are sprinkled between both boxes. And it’s not like the damn electrician would have listened anyway.

Here is a pic of me plumbing it in. I added the transfer switch after move in. We’re I to plan from the start I’d probably put a manual transfer switch on the line in and buy a 15kW generator then I could run the whole house.

Note the little box in the lower right is a whole house surge protector. I’m quite pleased with my setup

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I'm guessing that the center panel is your Air Conditioning panel, since you're down there in Hades and need 12 tons of AC per thousand square feet?

 

[NorthDallas40]

I'm guessing that the center panel is your Air Conditioning panel, since you're down there in Hades and need 12 tons of AC per thousand square feet?

Lol no. The big box on the right is the main 200A service box and the box in the middle is a 100A add on box. We don’t need 300A service we just have a crap ton of circuits it’s a big house. There is a 100A box in the shop out back too. Again just for the breaker count. We have 7 tons of AC capacity on this house for 3900 sq Ft AC space. It’s actually pretty energy efficient it’s an energy star certified home. In the middle of summer with us leaving the AC on 75 year around we use 3200kwhr of electricity.

 

[volger]

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