We had power out here at the shop for a few days recently which wasn't very nice... A main supply line inside the property had to be replaced and it took a lot of mucking around.. The power first went out last Sunday and we had an electrician come in and fix it. Then we were shut Monday, but I had a call from the soil yard just after lunch saying "I think your power's out again."
Power must have been out for a long time, probably going out sometime on Sunday night and because we weren't there in the morning to fix things we lost all the trout.. By the time I got in here most of the back up air pumps were stopped, but luckily we didn't lose any other fish..
Anyway, the overhead power cable needed to be replaced, about an 80m run, so we were out of power for a few days. Initially I ran a small generator that could only run a couple of systems, the till machine and wireless modem. it couldn't run things like the pressure pump, so we had no water here, no toilets and had to swap systems around to let them all run for a while. Time to update so bought this thing for $399..
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Well actually the one we got was slightly better, they must have updated since this picture, it had a battery and key start...
This generator ran pretty much everything in the shop except the fridge and the TV. It powered 16 different aquaponic systems including air pumps, the front till computer and printer, 2 computers in the office phone, system, fax, a couple of lights in the office and the pressure pump for water...
15L fuel tank meant that we didn't have to come in to top up the fuel at night, unlike the previous genny. In fact our record was running pretty much everything on one tank of fuel for 18 hours.
$400 well spent...
And the "909" evidently is the number of days warranty you get...
