Emergency - black out -???

i agree w/louis....they will survive.

its my feeling that your proposed emergency plans would be more apt to produce hermies than just waiting for power to be restored. a single off shedule dark period is much less dangerous than the lights going off, then on, then off, then on.

and ive had a generator hard-wired to my house since 1999. when the power goes out all the neighbors call...."how aree you watching TV with no power?"....

Now thats my next step............ great idea, HARD WIRED!
Are you running a desiel, unleaded, or a ethonol gen ?????

unleaded for now...i want to go biodiesel sooooo bad. with my vehicles too.

i dont have a battery buffer snd i have to manual start it so i do lose power for a min or two. but i have the gen in the garage and a seperate panel in the basement. start the genny and flip the switch and half my house is lit up and the heater works.

its godlike to be the only shining beakon of light in the whole neighborhood.

LOL I am lucky here. I live in the middle of nowhere so if someone takes a pole out 5 miles away I loose power. But the house I bought has a 16Hp 10000W generator all hooked up. Power goes down just flip the main go out to the shed turn the key on the Gen. and back to business. Only problem is if no one is home your screwed. Talked to an electrician to see about getting the whole thing automated but too much $$ for me.

I want one.............. I have the good portible setup 2400w, but to have the whole house UNEFFECTED by blackouts is what I want.....

yeah, that automatic shit is pricey.

im with misshess, i want solar/wind power.

locoman610 said:

LOL I am lucky here. I live in the middle of nowhere so if someone takes a pole out 5 miles away I loose power. But the house I bought has a 16Hp 10000W generator all hooked up. Power goes down just flip the main go out to the shed turn the key on the Gen. and back to business. Only problem is if no one is home your screwed. Talked to an electrician to see about getting the whole thing automated but too much $$ for me.

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In oz?????

SlikWiLL13 said:

yeah, that automatic shit is pricey.

im with misshess, i want solar/wind power.

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If you have the room to efficently get the power out of those natural alternatives...... you have the room to grow outside ??????????????

grow outside? i think one of us is misunderstanding. i want solar panels and wind turbines on my house to provide electricity. i grow indoors. my home sits on a quarter acre, no outdoor growing here.

Outside growing is risky here in the land of corn. Got porkchoppers that fly in the summer time with the big thing sticking out of the front of it looking for marijuana plant heat signatures.

I've seen it with my own eyes, it does exist, it's not the lochness monster of pot paranioa.

how can a outdoor plant give aff heat signatures? i thought those flir cameras were looking for hot spots in houses. are you sure your not seeing them actually looking for patches?

unfortunatly its true.... here in oz

im confused, whats true in oz? the copter thing? or do plants give off heat sig's in oz?

i have heard people say actual plants give off heat sig's but always thought "bullshit"

Both...
Law enforcement agencies often monitor certain wider areas, particularly areas of countryside with a significant history of outdoor cannabis cultivation. In helicopters, they use infrared cameras and other equipment that can detect cannabis by measuring the heat and reflective signature of the vegetation below. Cannabis has higher reflectivity at certain wavelengths than other rural crops, such as corn. Law enforcement agencies have found that the use of this technology has become necessary in their detection efforts because many growers hide cannabis among other plants, making detection with the naked eye difficult even from the air. These techniques are effective and difficult to defeat because a plant's reflective signature is difficult to change or mask. It has been said that if the cannabis plant is planted by a pine or cedar tree the heat from the tree will overlap the cannabis plant heat making it harder to detect from helicopters.The resin on the cannabis plant is what make it visible by infrared.

interesting...not much room for calling bullshit now. thanks for the breakdown.

i wonder what the hourly operating costs of those choppers are?

LOL... I dont know what my SARCASTIC reply would...... i hope alot so they are not doin to much searching or not much because we pay for by way of tax