Yes, standby for utility outages from storms. We have never had gas shut
down. Not even after the tornado last year. Not saying it's impossible.
If it happened, I could run the most absolutely critical stuff off of a
portable generator and propane tank.
On 10/26/2014 6:32 PM, Rex-List Account via Af wrote:
Just to throw another curve into your thinking - what is your reasoning on the
generator? Disaster recovery? Frequent power outages due to storms and such?
As a thirty plus year vet at a phone company and a twenty five plus year vet on
the fire department let me give you this to ponder. If it is for frequent power
outages
due to electrical storms, ice, and/or poor power lines then NG is fine. However
it has been my experience that in disaster scenarios like earthquakes (ok I
haven't actually
seen this one) severe storms/tornadoes (I have seen way too many of these) then
one of the first things the fire department does is shut down the natural gas
pipelines.
Too many houses destroyed and the possibilities of way too many leaks. I
personally would go with diesel fuel. Almost always available - can be easily
trucked in. LP can be
hard to source and price fluctuates in the winter. There is always a farmer or
construction company around with diesel. NG is defiantly more convenient, but
in a true disaster
situation it may not be available. Just my two cents worth.
Rex
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of George Skorup (Cyber
Broadcasting) via Af
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:17 PM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: [AFMUG] Generator question
So I have a unique situation at our office. We're looking at a Generac QuietSource
22 or 30kW running on NG. I'm not dead set on that, but those are very nice and
quiet 1800RPM. And the problem is, our building is really old and is split in half
with two separate 240 services coming in. And I do have an old empty 1-1/4"
conduit between the two utility closets. The two services is actually nice because a
lot of times, one side will have power when the other doesn't. One comes from the
north, the other from the south.
There's no way we can rewire and combine everything into one service feed. I'm
trying to wrap my mind around how to do something like two auto-transfer
switches on one generator. I have critical stuff to run on both sides. Probably
need a qualified electrician or engineer, but I thought I'd ask here for
suggestions before we go down that road and pay someone to come up with
something that I most likely wouldn't like.
