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-=> Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

 RM> I got through that okay, and then at 7pm tonight my power
 RM> went out for 5 1/2 hours, about 75 minutes longer than their
 RM> repair estimate. Good thing it was still fairly warm (2c 36f)
 RM> today so that it 'only' dropped to about 11c (52f) in here so
 RM> I was able to wait it out with a few extra layers of clothing,
 RM> later reading a book by flashlight under the covers in bed,
 RM> the bedroom holding heat in better than the rest of the house..

It seemed to me that refrigerators used to be good, unpowered, for
around 12-14 hours if you didn't open it during a power outage. My new
fridge manual says 4 hours for the fridge, 12-14 hours for the freezer.

We live in an area prone to falling trees, and have had our share of
outages. I've resorted to running an inverter off of my car, running an
extension cord from the carport to my kitchen, and running the fridge
every couple of hours. The nice thing is that our new hot water heater
is tankless, and I can run it off the same inverter - the electonics
need power, but the heating is all gas.


 
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