Winter strikes early!

[ecogeorge]

Hmmmm , 17th October and our little cluster of houses are plunged into darkness after some unseasonal ? windy weather.
After 1/2 hour neighbours house 120m away gets power back. We are still off -different circuit-crazy but true.
Drag genny (2.2kw honda) from shed , connect and she fires straight up -put away full of fuel just in case. House now back on, -mrs ecogeorge can watch csi - relief, stand down.
Electric board now very interested in pylon  with locked isolator switch in my chicken orchard ,-I've gone out and turned the electric fence off
Little wren wind turbine is trying to take off unloaded as the grid is off. Windmaster inverter flashing red to say not happy with grid voltage/frequency etc from Honda generator.
Is this the start of a difficult winter? it just goes to show how vulnerable we are with no grid but with grid connected renewables !!
Off now to look for a bigger generator on ebay .
rgds George.

[biff]

hi george,
        we had a hail and snow forcast this morning and i thought,,surely not,"" but this afternoon the temp dropped like a stone and i filled the fuel scoops and stacked up the fire,sure enough it has been snowing with hail showers,hopefully it will not lie because there is so much water about with the flooding,,,our holly is red with berries,,early winter is right, !!
                                                                                                   biff

[ecogeorge]

All ok , power back on    thanks to the men in orange jackets  and Western Power.
Back to plans about proper change over switch, bigger generator, automatic start etc etc mutter, mutter, mutter.
rgds.George.