Battery Tender/ Power Outage Question
#11
11-07-2011, 04:55 PM
Thanks - a reasonable answer that allows me to now concentrate on yet another piece of useless drivel !!!
Sammi
Sammi
#13
11-07-2011, 05:06 PM
I know you where just tormenting the op but what you stated can't happen as I have plugged(an employee but I shoulda checked it) a 12 power supply/converter into 220 by accident and all it does is blow up the converter. I was using a 12 volt laser and the ps(120vac input/12vdc output) got plugged into 220 in the spider box and it continued to work for a while then the laser went dark and stopped spinning. The ps was ruined but the laser was fine. The converter still only lets out 12v and the excess voltage is converted into heat and then it goes boom. It took about 30 minutes.
Last edited by qtrracer; 11-07-2011 at 05:09 PM.
#14
11-07-2011, 07:50 PM
Of course it can. And it will probably backfeed from your house to your neighbors and feed that little buzzy thing she has plugged in. NOW....your a hero.
#15
11-07-2011, 08:51 PM
We've had numerous power failures in the time that I've had my BT. Just two days ago we had 3 power failures in 4 hours. The BT had no problems with it, and the battery wasn't drained.
#16
11-07-2011, 08:56 PM
Seasoned HDF Member
Power here is always blinking out. never a problem,except it sometimes screws up my computer temporarily.
#17
11-07-2011, 08:57 PM
Stellar HDF Member
My neighbor has a generator that is hard-wired to his home's electrical panel. As he describes it the generator "backward feeds" the power to the panel and then to the open circuits.
My question: if a battery tender is plugged into the bike and an outlet, in the situation of a power outage does the bike's battery "backward feed" into the home's power system and drain the battery?
Seems like both scenarios are the same.
(Minutia like that gets me to over-think stuff)
Thanks.
Sammi
My question: if a battery tender is plugged into the bike and an outlet, in the situation of a power outage does the bike's battery "backward feed" into the home's power system and drain the battery?
Seems like both scenarios are the same.
(Minutia like that gets me to over-think stuff)
Thanks.
Sammi
#18
11-07-2011, 09:48 PM
Extreme HDF Member
When the power came back on couple weeks go, it fried the controls on the water softener. We've had a few outages, but that's the first time I lost anything from a surge.
#19
11-08-2011, 07:42 AM
Your friend should get a transfer switch installed. It does two things, 1) prevents power from the grid from flowing to the generator when the power is restored, and more importantly 2) prevents power from the generator back feeding the grid and shocking some poor utility worker who is out in the middle of the storm risking his life trying to get your power back on...
#20
11-08-2011, 08:17 AM
Extreme HDF Member
My Dad lives WAY out in the countryside in SD. His house is frequently without power in the winter due to storms. He also has a generator installed. Nothing will feed back into the power grid. When the generator kicks in it throws a switch that stops all the power to or from the grid. He has had to put surge suppressors on almost all the outlets though because of the issues when the power changes over to the generator.