Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:58:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: solar panels
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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My man! 'Tis difficult indeed to creep up to a generator and cause its
failure w/o detection, esp. if said generator is mounted into a pocket on
the side of a ginormous RV. Also, one feels ambivalent about doing so when
it's clear that w/o the generator, the hapless campers (and their little
dog) will have to do w/o lighting, DirecTV, microwave, and Mr Coffee.

Still, the temptation is strong in this one.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR



On 4/8/2009 2:12 PM David Beierl wrote:

> At 06:44 PM 4/8/2009, Loren Busch wrote:
>> about half the day.  And I never realized it was running until I
>> happened to
>> walk out that way late in the day, it was that quiet.  It had been placed
>> away
>
> And OTOH those of us who have enjoyed anchoring for the night in a
> silent cove have found that a pair of muffled oarlocks and a raw
> potato are the working parts to a good solution to the "stinkpotter"
> who comes in just at dusk and immediately fires up the
> generator.  You have to wait a bit, of course, until it's nice and
> dark -- and if said stinkpotter is polite and has shut off the
> generator by then -- no harm, no foul.
>
> <WEG>
> D
>
>
>  --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"
>