Well dunno if it was the storm or just how it is.
If you guys follow the news. You know 2 days ago. A sub station in San Francisco mission district caught fire. I don’t live near there but I guess it’s a critical part of San Francisco’s electricity grid. In the almost 60 years we lived here. We never loose power for more than a few minutes to hour or so. Well we lost power for almost 8 hours. For a big aquarium it means death. Since I count on the sun for batteries and electricity. I was kinda screwed cuz it’s been rainy and cloudy here. Batteries were at 30%. Not looking good for me. Since my system goes to sleep at 15% to save the batteries. Lucky I was home. Shut everything down and went into Survival mode. I had practiced this many times before but never had to actually execute it. Main return pumps down to a crawl. 1 power head on. Everything else off. I got all my systems down to 400 watts. Closed all the windows and doors. And sat it out. Ph dropped from 8.1 to 7.6.
Power came back on around 9:45pm. Storms always make me nervous. I have an inverter that I can plug into my Tesla but of course I left it in my buddy’s car. Power comes back on with 20% battery life left. Talk about close. We are very blessed because we were the first ones on the grid to get power back. My cousin that lives in the sunset and our church just got power back this morning. 2 days later. I would have been SOL.
I never had a power outage like this before. My cell phone couldn’t call , no text, no internet. Not even on LTE. Dunno.
So why am I writing this ??? So other folks can learn. Be ready. You think you’re ready ? You ain’t. Have a plan A, B, and C. Cuz it may all go to S. Really Quick.
If you guys follow the news. You know 2 days ago. A sub station in San Francisco mission district caught fire. I don’t live near there but I guess it’s a critical part of San Francisco’s electricity grid. In the almost 60 years we lived here. We never loose power for more than a few minutes to hour or so. Well we lost power for almost 8 hours. For a big aquarium it means death. Since I count on the sun for batteries and electricity. I was kinda screwed cuz it’s been rainy and cloudy here. Batteries were at 30%. Not looking good for me. Since my system goes to sleep at 15% to save the batteries. Lucky I was home. Shut everything down and went into Survival mode. I had practiced this many times before but never had to actually execute it. Main return pumps down to a crawl. 1 power head on. Everything else off. I got all my systems down to 400 watts. Closed all the windows and doors. And sat it out. Ph dropped from 8.1 to 7.6.
Power came back on around 9:45pm. Storms always make me nervous. I have an inverter that I can plug into my Tesla but of course I left it in my buddy’s car. Power comes back on with 20% battery life left. Talk about close. We are very blessed because we were the first ones on the grid to get power back. My cousin that lives in the sunset and our church just got power back this morning. 2 days later. I would have been SOL.
I never had a power outage like this before. My cell phone couldn’t call , no text, no internet. Not even on LTE. Dunno.
So why am I writing this ??? So other folks can learn. Be ready. You think you’re ready ? You ain’t. Have a plan A, B, and C. Cuz it may all go to S. Really Quick.
