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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I kind of suspected this would work. If you have an electric dryer and don't want to wrestle with the stove you can always plug your 220 cord in there. Like Keith said, just make sure you cut the main breaker that feeds your house off so you're not powering the neighborhood.  Nano, I'm intrigued as you must have one heck of a hair dryer. There's no way I could physically plug my 220 cord into anything that's not a 220 receptacle. The plug's at least two to two and a half times as big as any 110 plug and the prongs are arranged in a circle. I'm no electrician but I understand a 220 line is wired differently though it may still be a three wire line. I understand that it's possible to have a generator connected to where it kicks on automatically during an outage but that requires some work by an electrician and uses what's called a transfer switch to connect the power from your generator to those specific circuits you want supplied. As I understand it, a generator that only has 110 output cannot power any 220 devices (typically a/c, furnace, and the like). It also needs to have enough wattage to supply the demand possible on the circuits it will connect to. Anyone wanting to do something like this should definitely talk to an electrician first. Captain Keith i am sure he said clothes dryer as they are 220v--and from there you can run most things in the house--i have a 12000 watt Honda generator that has a 220 receptacle and plug it into the 220 for the clothes dryer  |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I kind of suspected this would work. If you have an electric dryer and don't want to wrestle with the stove you can always plug your 220 cord in there. Like Keith said, just make sure you cut the main breaker that feeds your house off so you're not powering the neighborhood. Nano, I'm intrigued as you must have one heck of a hair dryer. There's no way I could physically plug my 220 cord into anything that's not a 220 receptacle. The plug's at least two to two and a half times as big as any 110 plug and the prongs are arranged in a circle. I'm no electrician but I understand a 220 line is wired differently though it may still be a three wire line. I understand that it's possible to have a generator connected to where it kicks on automatically during an outage but that requires some work by an electrician and uses what's called a transfer switch to connect the power from your generator to those specific circuits you want supplied. As I understand it, a generator that only has 110 output cannot power any 220 devices (typically a/c, furnace, and the like). It also needs to have enough wattage to supply the demand possible on the circuits it will connect to. Anyone wanting to do something like this should definitely talk to an electrician first. Captain Keith i am sure he said clothes dryer as they are 220v--and from there you can run most things in the house--i have a 12000 watt Honda generator that has a 220 receptacle and plug it into the 220 for the clothes dryer  How the heck did I get hair dryer out of electric dryer????? Of course though, I always call that the dryer. Yea, mine's electric too (vs. gas of course). Still, by using the stove, I can still cook in the microwave and do laundry while running the furnace, well, fridge, TV and lights all in the midst of an ourage during an ice storm. That's when I have usually needed the generator. 12000W Gerald? Wow! With that, I could leave the whole house on. About 3500 of the 6500W I have is just for kicking the well pump on. Doesn't take much power to run a pump but boy do they draw it starting up! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 06/19 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== lawrencehardin reached 9,000,000 points  Runtime milestones report ========================= Coingames reached 82 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== No results returned milestones found.  New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 04/05/2012 8,248 Points: 03/07/2012 2,312,643 Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 06/19 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 285,079 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 266,300 points 03: GeraldRube - 164,592 points 04: Coingames - 100,899 points 05: xroule - 81,385 points 06: David Autumns - 76,351 points 07: parmesian - 45,753 points 08: dkt - 44,737 points 09: brown chris - 41,911 points 10: smcclarigan - 26,911 points 11: finman - 25,571 points 12: Blueprint - 25,279 points 13: Jonathon Wright - 24,552 points 14: lawrencehardin - 21,308 points 15: keithhenry - 20,068 points 16: darth_vader - 17,245 points 17: Fanie - 15,385 points 18: Vuj - 14,861 points 19: pramodp - 12,291 points 20: PohSoon - 11,587 points Total points returned today: 1,355,972 Active members returning points today: 37 Average points per member active today: 36,647.8919 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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........................CONGRATULATIONS lawrencehardin ON REACHING 9,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!........................ |
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ultimaThule
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 825 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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12000W Gerald? Wow! With that, I could leave the whole house on. Actually you cannot as long using your current concept. You cannot feed hold house through stove wires... If you take a look at those cables/fuses that are originally designed to feed your house and compare those that are feeding your stove, you can very easily notice that those originals are very much larger on diameter and values... So when using this stove feed system, you are feeding your house via narrow band and when you exceed it's capability to move energy, you hopefully burn stove fuses. If that does not happen, then you will burn stove wires/hold house...  |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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 Good Morning MOT Congratulations lawrencehardin! Everyone take good care of yourself today. |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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12000W Gerald? Wow! With that, I could leave the whole house on. Actually you cannot as long using your current concept. You cannot feed hold house through stove wires... If you take a look at those cables/fuses that are originally designed to feed your house and compare those that are feeding your stove, you can very easily notice that those originals are very much larger on diameter and values... So when using this stove feed system, you are feeding your house via narrow band and when you exceed it's capability to move energy, you hopefully burn stove fuses. If that does not happen, then you will burn stove wires/hold house... I was running it through the dryer outlet with a separate line to the water heater but have since the last storm installed a generator switch which connects to the house before the meter--i just throw the switch and it connects to the generator-- hurricane Isabelle made a believer out of me --we lost power for 12 days so i bought the biggest generator Home Depot had-- |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7219 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I am not an electrician, but I seem to recall that, at least in Minnesota, a transfer switch is mandatory if you are running any kind of current through your household wiring/breaker box etc. this is precisely for the reason stated previously: to isolate your house from backfeeding into the electrical grid and potentially harming others. Perhaps an electrician or electrical distribution engineer or two could chime in and set the record straight.
----------------------------------------Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 06/20 - All Members:
----------------------------------------Team rank movement report =========================
Points milestones report ======================== David Autumns reached 29,000,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= judson Somerville MD reached 90 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== xroule reached 85,000 results brown chris reached 60,000 results New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 04/05/2012 8,248 Points: 03/07/2012 2,312,643 Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42 Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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