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Adeline
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State or Province: WA
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: Generator Grief |
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The third installment of my Super Sunday Comedy of Errors. After my Outboard Control Box screamed at me warning of an overheat, I worried that somehow I might have a VRO problem. Its incorporated into the overall alarm system. So I added a pint of oil to my 6 gallon auxilliary tank and ran the 70 off of it until I could see my VRO oil tank level lowered. The 6 isn't part of my outboard fuel supply anymore(normally). I use it to refill my Yamaha 1000 generator. Well, long story short, the Yammy didn't like it. It ran rough and then I couldn't get it to light up when I needed to run my microwave oven. Provisioned for a week on the water I aborted the mission. No generator means no hot coffee, no hot meals, and no recharging batteries. Boy, have I become dependent on that thing. A word to the wise, save the premix for the outboards and run the genny on straight gas only.
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Wayne McCown
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject: Good Grief |
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Adeline
Joined: 03 Nov 2003
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City/Region: Vancouver
State or Province: WA
C-Dory Year: 1989
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Good news! I drained the tank and refilled with fresh Chevron. New spark plug too. Old one was oil fouled. First pull and off to the races. For other Yammy 1000 users. NGK CR6HSB gapped to .028. This is the smaller plug and needs a 5/8" dia. long socket, a "wobbler",and a short extension. |
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Wayne McCown
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City/Region: Rochester
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| Good news, indeed! (I had thought of suggesting this.) |
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El and Bill
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City/Region: Lakewood, CO
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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What's a generator?? 
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Wayne McCown
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Bill and El:
Your dedication to simplicity is an example to us all!
Gratefully yours, Wayne |
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rogerbum
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| El and Bill wrote: | | What's a generator?? |
Here's a few definitions that might help -
# A machine that produces electricity.
www.ergon.com.au/energyed/glossary.asp
# A machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. Electricity is produced from magnets whirling inside coils of wire in the generator core.
www.dairynet.com/kids/gloss.html
# A machine that changes the power or energy from a natural source, such as water or wind, into electricity.
www.progress-energy.com/aboutenergy/learningctr/electricity/glossary.asp
# Means a seller which injects electricity into a network.
www.nzelectricity.co.nz/H9glossary.htm
# "Generator" means the owner or operator of a facility that generates hazardous waste. [1991, c. 520, §6 (amd).]
janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/38/title38sec2301.html
# A rotating machine (eg alternator) that produces AC electricity. Also and electronic device that converts DC voltage into AC of a given frequency and wave shape.
www.sfxaudio.com/AudioSchool/glossary.asp
# an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
# engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
# someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" (Maybe this was meant for you Bill )
# an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
# An electrical generator is a device that produces electrical energy from a mechanical energy source. The process is known as electricity generation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator
# Generator (1992) is a name of an album by a punk rock group called Bad Religion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(album)
# In abstract algebra, a generating set of a group is a subset S such that every element of G can be expressed as the product of finitely many elements of S and their inverses. Whilst this may appear to produce excessively long strings of terms, in fact, these strings often can be reduced.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(groups)
# In computer science, a generator is a special routine that can be used to control the iteration behaviour of a loop. The concept was invented for the Sather programming language but it has also been incorporated in the Python programming language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(computer_science)
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