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I admit I didn't read all pages of this thread, but I ran my house on a MEP-002a during and after Sandy, and with electric water heater and the well pump, I never got it over 95% load. But, we managed the loading a bit, like never running the stove and oven while the water heater was on, etc. I...

Good point about the garage being an amplifier. No grass behind it, though, it abuts the neighbors fence. A tent in front of it might work. Pad, thanks for the confirmation. Overheating it by surrounding it had me wondering if cooling would be a problem. It'll be in the 40's, which will help...

Sounds like I'm talking to the mirror... :D I'll send you a PM over the weekend, I have to get a deck built by next week, if I make real progress saturday, come on over and talk green iron.

I've heard this debate rage, and I'm not sure what the final consensus is on it, or that I ever got a clear picture of the consequences of getting it wrong. NEC makes the ground at the genset conditional on other factors, doesn't it? Doesn't it also depend on whether the center tap on the...

The old man almost made me drive up in a snowstorm last night when he told my wife he was going to move his propane grill in the house for heat. aua I think he was just looking for a reaction, though. He has a detached garage I am thinking about putting it in. Piping the exhaust out a window...

Ha ha, if you ask my wife, I don't need any of them... But I don't have any for sale at the moment. I have an 002 I've been on the fence about selling, but I just dropped more cash on parts for it, so I'm starting to commit to getting it going again. I'm about 5 miles from Pottstown. How long...

I just looked through my closed watchlist that I forgot to follow, I'm actually pretty blown away by some of the prices. Some really bad looking gear went for astronomical prices...

I like the 55 gallon drum of water idea. That's the easiest thing to do right now.

TM says 1.4 gallons per hour at full load if I remember right. The 018 is listed as 2.4 gallons per hour. I have an 018 I traded a member here for also, but I'm not bringing that up to him for that very reason (fuel consumption). I've never run the unit more than 15 minutes, so I don't...

BTW, 002 was my first offer to loan him, for some reason he's adamant against me bringing up a diesel. He's even got 2 55 gal barrels of emergency home heating oil I can drop the line in, totally against it, though.

Ah, that really sucks... I was hoping someone had already experimented with blankets, wood, or something Id' never think of (like sandbags, don't know why I didn't see it in the TM). I guess for temporary use, I can do sandbags. They had actually run out in the box stores up there, but my local...

Hi all, I have a MEP-017, 5kw gasoline-powered generator I want to bring up to my dad on Long Island (I'm in PA). Problem right now is that people are stealing generators and gasoline all over the place. So I want to make this noisy gas unit quieter. If we can't hide it, at least make it...

I thought the last round of generators closed a little high in the northeast. But the same thing happened last year when many areas here lost power for a week. People on Long Island have been pretty desperate. Box stores ran out before the hurricane, and in the 10 days since that a lot of...

I'm making a pickup tomorrow morning at aberdeen proving grounds in MD. I'll have limited space available, but should be able to haul something moderate sized. Don't have the luxury of time to deliver it more than a few minutes off course, but I can get it off base for you to pick up outside GL...

Well, the government is keeping the shelter for now... I was promised a refund "within 3-4 days", and it still hasn't been refunded 6 biz days later. Think I'll be banned from future bidding if I disoute the credit card charge?

A couple months?!? What's wrong with this outfit?

Sorry, didnt get email notification on this one for some reason. Same event, radio/electronics shelter. I'll be a little irked if it clears and they stripped the interior. The guts were half the reason I bought it. It looks like an extremely convenient hunting trip camper....

Anyone else experience this? GL customer service doesn't know jack about a hold, but my site contact will not schedule me a pickup time because he says the government just issued a hold on it, and all the other units in the same sale event. I've paid for it already, had a decent window of...

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Anyone picking up a truck or something with lots of empty cargo space in the next few days? Could you to pick up and hold for a day or two an electrical shelter from Ft Meade? I can come get it from you just about any evening or weekend, just want to avoid missing time at work to make the GL...