Winter Generator

[Glynis Waughtal]

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If your electricity goes out due to snow and ice, a generator can keep power flowing to your home or business. The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) reminds home and business owners to keep safety in mind when using generators this winter.

Cal OES urges Californians to be prepared before, during, and after a storm. Generators can be a vital resource during a power outage. There are several steps to keep in mind when using a generator to keep your family safe.

Cold weather can make it especially challenging for generators to start and run properly. Here are some generator maintenance tips to prepare your generator for winter and help ensure your equipment is ready to run when you need it.

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When engaged, a transfer switch isolates the generator power from the incoming utility lines and serves to safeguard the generator while eliminating the inconvenience of running multiple extension cords from the generator into the house. Having a transfer switch also eliminates the risk of back-feeding the electrical utility, which can cause injury to utility workers as well as property damage.

Just as bodies become more inflexible with lack of use, your generator may not turn on or operate correctly in temperatures lower than forty degrees Fahrenheit without proper use. The best way to give your generator the boost it needs is by letting it run about once a week for approximately ten minutes to lubricate all its moving parts.

Winter storms create a higher risk of car accidents, hypothermia, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisoning, and heart attacks from overexertion. Winter storms including blizzards can bring extreme cold, freezing rain, snow, ice and high winds.

Issued when hazardous winter weather in the form of heavy snow, heavy freezing rain, or heavy sleet is imminent or occurring. Winter Storm Warnings are usually issued 12 to 24 hours before the event is expected to begin.

Be prepared for winter weather at home, at work and in your car. Create an emergency supply kit for your car. Include jumper cables, sand, a flashlight, warm clothes, blankets, bottled water and non-perishable snacks. Keep a full tank of gas.

I have the problem that not one Winter Skin is activated when the Winter starts ingame. While the whole coutry lies under snow, the germans and russians fly with their black/grey and black/green skins on the plane. ? Could this be a bug maybe?

Some units are never assigned winter white. My understanding is that winter white was not universal, so I did not make it so in PWCG. Also, winter white was abandoned after the winter of 42-43. Finally, many skins have to be downloaded. If you have not downloaded all of the skins used by PWCG the game will use defaults instead. Finally, the skin selection algorithm is pretty complex, so even if a winter squadron skin is configured PWCG may be using a non-winter personal skin instead.

Mostly I think it is personal skins being chosen over squadron winter skins. As more skins were added to PWCG the ability to use personal skins became more prevalent, and squadron winter skins may have been sacrificed. Maybe I could add some code to make replacement of winter skins less frequent, but it would take some thought. The skin assignment algorithm is surprisingly complex so any changes have to be thought through.

In October 1999 my husband Gary and I moved from Palmer to Slana, which was at that time one of the few places left on Alaska's road system still without commercial power. Residents ran their own generator, or did without electricity.

This was not a completely new situation for us. Twenty-five years prior, while living on Chena Hot Springs Road out of Fairbanks, we learned it would take $10,000 to bring power to our property. After living there for a year and half, we moved to California. For eight months of our two and a half years in California, we lived in a "homestead" type situation with no electricity and a newborn. Because of some of those past experiences, I insisted we have basic conveniences before agreeing to move to Slana. Generator power made all the difference.

My biggest concern was living without a freezer. I didn't see how I could cook a decent meal without one, living that far away from grocery stores. At first we didn't realize we'd have enough power to run the freezer, but soon learned otherwise. Since the freezer was located in an outdoor storehouse, it didn't need much help from the generator in the winter and it held its temperature just fine in the summer even with the generator shut off at night. Although, if we were gone more than three days in the summer, we had to ask a neighbor to come start the generator and let it run for a few hours. Also, summer or winter, when we were gone more than one day, we emptied the refrigerator and put the contents down in the cellar.

When we first moved there, I quickly learned that turning the refrigerator off would give me that little extra power I needed for a few moments, rather than going around the house turning off all the lights. After a few times of forgetting to turn it back on for hours, I developed a signal system. When I turned the fridge off, I put a red scarf through the door handle. That way, if Gary passed through, and saw the scarf, he knew I'd forgotten to turn it back on. That system was not fool proof, but it certainly helped.

I knew the first week we lived there that the noisy hum of the generator was not going to be a problem for me as others said it was for them. In fact, we could hardly hear it inside our log home unless the windows were open. The hum was reassuring to me, because it meant that all was well and that life could continue as usual. We grew so accustomed to the sound that whenever there was a fluctuation for whatever reason, we were both ready to drop what we were doing and investigate.

Our first two years, we used the existing 3 kilowatt Lister diesel with a 3.5 KW Honda gasoline as a backup. Then we bought a 5.5 KW Northern Lights Lugger diesel and used the Lister for back up. I could start either the Lister or the Lugger in the morning and shut them down for the night, check the oil, add oil, and change oil. But I must admit Gary did most all of that work. Since he's the morning person, he usually walked out and started the generator each morning while I did the night time shut-off duty.

By the time it automatically shut down because of low oil, all the fresh oil I had just put in was dripping off the walls and ceiling of the generator shed. After spending hours cleaning up the mess, I called a neighbor (who also happened to be the local generator expert) to check things out before I restarted it. Gary was none the wiser, until I eventually told him.

Besides the basic daily maintenance of running a generator, every once in a while we had to scramble to get a custom part out of Anchorage. Our generator was connected to a 500-gallon fuel tank just outside the generator shed and we had a standing "keep full" order with the fuel oil service company out of Glennallen.

In the spring of 2000 there was a big community meeting with Alaska Power & Telephone out of Tok. If all went well, the Slana area was supposed to have commercial power by the fall of 2002. I couldn't understand why the long-time residents didn't get more excited at the prospect of commercial power. It turned out they had heard that song and dance before and weren't going to hold their breath. Also, there were those who didn't want to see commercial power come to the area, just as there were those who didn't vote for Alaska statehood. It would bring unwanted changes to a way of life.

As for me, I adjusted well to life with generator power and as long as that generator kept humming, I was perfectly content. But, a big change finally came in the spring of 2005 when AP&T brought in a large generator and installed it on the local school grounds. View-detracting power poles were placed and lines strung on a portion of both the Nabesna Road and the Tok Cut-Off. In the beginning, only people within a one mile radius were hooked up, but gradually more customers were brought on-line.

New adjustments took place. Our Lugger became the backup and there were no more twice daily trips to the generator shed with flashlight in hand. We became accustomed to the sound of silence and the arrival of the monthly power bill in the mail.

Is your business ready for the cold weather months ahead? The plummeting temperatures can adversely impact your power systems, so it is essential to take steps to winterize them in advance. This is especially true of your industrial generator. The cold weather can make batteries drain faster, thicken oil, gel diesel fuel, and cause other complications that can negatively affect generator reliability. Follow these tips from Valley Power Systems this winter to ensure your unit will work effectively when you need it most.

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