Since we're in a 'Public Safety Power Shutoff' and despite conditions clearing up this afternoon, there was still no power at home. There's also nowhere to hangout or movies to watch. So after today's ride...
...I plugged my bike into the generator while I was running it to make dinner.
So tomorrow my bike will be propane powered!
My new cable reached the generator just fine, too.
-Crissa
We had the shut off here in Auburn also. I actually had a good time staying here. It's the first time I did not head for Reno during such an outage. I kept busy. I stayed in my RV and ran temporary ham radio antennas and beside keeping busy with that, I still could get on-line with my laptop and cell service with my V W/L portable hotspot. My bikes were all fully charged by then, besides having three ICE bikes here with full tanks.
I have used my RV generator countless times to charge my bike during RV trips while boondocking, Not very efficient to charge a bike using gasoline, but it works. I charge it at only 2.1 KW or so, by adding only one Delta Q charger. That leaves me a power for other things such as charging the RV deep cycle batteries. It's a 4KW generator. If I disconnect the RV and only use the Generator, than I charge the Zero at 3KW by adding in another Delta-Q, which is a more efficient use of the gasoline.
BTW, all my computer stuff here is on a UPS, including the cable modem and router, security cameras and such. But it did no good because Sudden Link (the cable company here) went down and they have no backup. But cell service does have backup, so I could use my V W/L Hotspot and still get on line.
-Don- Auburn, CA
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