Return-Path: Received: from MIT.EDU by po12.mit.edu (8.9.2/4.7) id NAA09418; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:54:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from [64.46.152.31] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15723; Mon, 8 Jan 01 13:56:06 EST Received: (from list@localhost) by opal.haven.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA18688; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:52:41 -0500 Resent-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:52:41 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: opal.haven.org: list set sender to elbow-joints-request@haven.org using -f From: Russell Nelson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:53:22 -0500 (EST) To: elbow-joints@haven.org Subject: Re: Furnace question In-Reply-To: <200101081843.NAA01815@out-of-band.media.mit.edu> References: <200101081838.NAA06596@small-gods.mit.edu> <200101081843.NAA01815@out-of-band.media.mit.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-Id: <14938.3021.138950.446030@desk.crynwr.com> X-Face: $K'YURj"g6ImvqTS_=]8)gqh!5;ElY<[.Rao%j8r+]iUfE{%|v%F<=mcq<6l{K=~mf&#:?" nslS]U~|x{2V=Eex_I#"9K~9)>?m7Lm={(j_&)SX~fzg&ST~P%QUhc{1p]c3@Zn1u*PZlkHM**X^vV l>GkB5y^Kz%w5p~^uDue]hL&ke,N;+Q Resent-From: elbow-joints@haven.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2279 X-Loop: elbow-joints@haven.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: elbow-joints-request@haven.org X-Evolution: 00000040-0000 Lenny Foner writes: > And while we're talking about this, those people with forced-hot-water > systems are just SOL unless they have a UPS large enough to run the > pumps---which isn't all that likely. Those sorts of systems would > benefit from a generator. Honda makes the cutest little very quiet > 1KW model that I lust after---but it's -very- hard to justify solely > on the basis of, "well, I -might- need it sometime this decade..." Back when I was intending to keep my server at my house, and we were designing it, I made allowance for a cutover panel and a generator out in the garage. I figured that a generator was a requirement in any case. After I moved the server to a local isp, I didn't buy the generator. Needed it only a couple of times until the ice storm. Heather convinced me to buy a generator the day before the ice storm started. The cutest little very quiet Honda generators weren't designed to operate at sub-freezing temperatures, and people who had them broke them. I got a John Deere. In the end, insurance paid for half, and FEMA paid for the other half. If I'd already had a generator, neither entity would have paid anything. -- -russ nelson http://russnelson.com | Government is the Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | fictitious entity by which 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | everyone seeks to live at Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | everyone else's expense. -- Archive is at http://www.earthsign.com/elbowjoints/index.html sub/unsub elbow-joints-request@haven.org