Electrical

My neighbor showed up pounding on my front door while I was busy measuring PAR in the fishroom. Turns out a small fire ignited on the transformer behind my house. And it's raining!









I went ahead ...

The power went out 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. So my generator is running instead. Gotta keep my reef happy and my internet connection live.

It's that time of year again when many of us are going to be powering up our A/C systems to keep our homes and tanks cool. With that usually comes higher bills, so if you've not done anything about energy savings, now's the time.

Go to PowerToChoose.org and type in your zipcode. You can go through all the energy providers and find a good deal. For me, I prefer 12 months fixed, and limited the list to show just that. I've been with StarTex for the past 12 months, and was ...

With my recent blogs, you've read about how the power has been going out due to the snowfall in Fort Worth, Tx:

Snow - my favorite topic; & a power outage to deal with

No Power Again

Let me describe how I run the generator when an emergency strikes. If the power doesn't resume within one hour, the generator is used.

The generator is stored in the garage, safe from the environment. Gasoline is also stored, ...

Since 3:30am today, the power has been out to my home (as everyone else in the vicinity). As of now, it's been about 12 hours straight without juice. I was up until 6 a.m. waiting for it to come back on, then I finally fell asleep. I got up around noon, as my son brought back a hot chicken teriyaki subway sandwhich, which helped warm me up a bit. The house was 65F then. I'm glad I took a hot shower with the stored water in the water heater before I went to sleep.

I installed a ...