Posts Tagged ‘power-cut’

Hurrican Bawbag leaves tens of thousands without electricity.

Friday, December 9th, 2011

As hurricane swept across Scotland and Northern England, thousands of homes, schools and businesses are without electricity as powerlines were brought down. The Scottish government have estimates some 60,000 homes are without power. Electricity provide Scottish Hydro said at least 50,000 of it’s customers were without power and it expected this number to get worse before it gets better.

Those homes reliant on sustainable wind energy haven’t faired much better. The Ardrossan Wind Farm in North Ayrshire is all but destroyed as the wind turbines caught fire.  Farms and small holdings in rural areas have faired better with many farmers owning PTO generators and standby diesel generators to ensure precious livestock are still adequately cared for in the event of power cut.

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Generator Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the News again

Friday, July 15th, 2011

 

Once again petrol generators have featured in the news again this week for all the wrong reasons, following the power cuts in the Chicago area on Monday many residents had turned to petrol generators to provide power to their homes following the storms.

It was reported on Tuesday that firefighters had come across two potentially deadly situations. In the first situation a family were running their generator in their garage, the carbon monoxide seeped from the garage into the house, the result was 5 people aged between 14 and 54 were hospitalised as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. It’s also thought that a nearby air conditioning system may also have helped to have contributed by drawing the deadly gas back into the home.

Blocks away at a second home, a house fire was started by an overheating generator that had set fire to some combustible material.

Keep safe, follow these few simple rules to avoid tragedy

  • Generators to be used outside away from home air intakes.
  • Keep the Generator air vents and intakes free of grass, rubbish and other materials.
  • Keep the generator on a flat surface, grass free is preferable.
  • If needs be extend the exhaust to a safe distance
  • If you are in a long term use situation of more than a few days, check the oil level everyday.

 

 

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Hyundai HY3600SEi Inverter Generator

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

The Hyundai HY3600SEi is the top of the range model in the Hyundai Power Products Digital Inverter range.

With 3.2kw of continuous rate AC electrical output this machine is capable of taking on the power most hungry of  electrical appliances. As well as the normal camping, motorhome or boating duties the 3200w could even be used to run emergency appliances in the event of a power-cut in your home making this machine an ideal backup generator.

Fitted with inverter circuitry this machine is safe to power any electronic equipment with no danger of sensitive electronic components being damaged.  The HY3600SEi is fitted with electric key start, remote start and pull start.

See the full specifications for the Hyundai HY3600SEi at Genpower.

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