custom90 wrote:

Still no power my end so it’s 18v drill batteries for light etc for me.

I made a quick phone charger also from one with a buck converter board in parallel set down to 14.5v, then to a plug in 12v to 5v stable usb charger then on down to phone via USB.

Is anyone else still without power?
19:06 Sat, currently.

Originally was scheduled to be back on at mid day, then 6pm.


I think might be tomorrow.

Hi Custom90 our power was due to come back on at 6:00pm tomorrow but came on about 25 minutes ago, we are just outside Wheddon Cross cheers Paul

Barneyboy wrote:

Hi all, I’ve been off line since early morning due to no power and it’s now just come back on, apologies for my question as I didn’t describe/explain it clearly, all I want to be able to do is have a socket fitted on the outside of my cottage which will power one socket inside my cottage purely just to use the power of our small 2kw generator rather than running an extension lead through a window, neither socket would be connected to the mains electric, I’m probably making a meal of what I’m trying to achieve but thought this would be a simple option if it’s possible rather than feeding an extension lead around the house, cheers Paul

That is perfectly possible but bear in mind what others have said about the gender of plugs. As a rule the "live" end should be female so you can't poke it with your fingers. Not quite what I did but our house used to be an old care home so what is now the outside bog used to be a PTO driven generator room and still had all the changeover gear installed bar a socket for the generator so I grabbed a socket from the workshop and wired it in.


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Then had to go around and pull fuses out of the 7 distribution boards in the house (yup, it's that big and that much of a "mess") to limit initial stuff to just lights. We did actually get the boiler going as well (given it's heating 35 radiators on the ground floors it's not small). Thankfully it's about 40 years old so nice and reliable with minimal electrics, in fact both hi head pumps and boiler run off a 5A feed.

Time to sort out the bigger 28kVA gennie although ironically I don't think it'll offer much more than the 4kW as it's 3 phase so needs to be reasonably balanced. Ed
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