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Добавлен 5 фев 2008
This is a place for me to post poorly edited videos, say "um" a lot, look everywhere except at the camera, and generally prove that I don't have a future in television.
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I will NEVER beg you to like or subscribe. You're an adult, and you don't need me to tell you how to press a button.
Trailer MPG Shootout. Is a v-nose really better than a square nose?
Towing a pair of 24' race trailers back to back, to see which one gets better fuel efficiency. Will the "aerodynamic" v-nose trailer do better than my square nose trailer?
Spoiler alert: The V nose loses, badly.
0:00 Intro
2:17 Towing the V-nose trailer
4:33 Final mileage on the V-nose trailer
5:48 Swapping trailers.
6:07 Towing the square nose trailer.
8:53 Final mileage on the square nose trailer.
9:26 Results and conclusions.
Spoiler alert: The V nose loses, badly.
0:00 Intro
2:17 Towing the V-nose trailer
4:33 Final mileage on the V-nose trailer
5:48 Swapping trailers.
6:07 Towing the square nose trailer.
8:53 Final mileage on the square nose trailer.
9:26 Results and conclusions.
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Видео
Why I don't like greasable trailer axles.
Просмотров 10021 день назад
In this video, I rant about the various "easy-lube" offerings from various trailer axle manufactures. They seem like a good idea, but they often cause problems.
Can I Fix A 90 Year Old Piano?
Просмотров 1692 месяца назад
I've got a Story & Clark grand piano that I got for a song (hehehe), but it has some problems. In this video, I fix a high pitched ringing sound that's coming from the C3 strings.
FIxing an unusual oil leak in a 2 5 swapped NC Miata.
Просмотров 1085 месяцев назад
I'd just finished swapping this 2.5 into a 2007 Miata, and it began pissing oil. I was sure that it was the front main seal, which is a difficult job on these engines. And I was kicking myself for somehow messing up the install of the front main seal. It turns out, that wasn't the problem at all.
I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on a public road.
Просмотров 1436 месяцев назад
Racing a car is risky. But public roads are far more dangerous. This happened on the way home from the track.
Chasing a 2:19 at Virginia International Raceway
Просмотров 1317 месяцев назад
On my first weekend at VIR, I wanted to get below a 2:20 laptime. On the last session of the weekend, I succeeded.
Eclipse Timelapse from Central Texas
Просмотров 819 месяцев назад
This timelapse was taken west of Waco, TX. It does not show the eclipse itself. I set my camera up to capture the affect on the landscape. I shot 1 frame every 4 seconds, and then slowed the video down during totality. The audio was captured after the event, when the humans stopped making "ooh, aah" sounds and nature's sounds returned to normal. 0:00 Eclipse begins 1:00 Totality begins 1:10 Tot...
What do we say to the Tire Wall? Not today, Tire Wall. Not today.
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
Maybe a little less send next time
How fast can you get out of your racecar?
Просмотров 317Год назад
Bailout drills are an important part of a racing driver's training. In this video I practice various ways of getting out of a burning Spec Miata. If I ever have to do it for real, I'll know how to do it quickly.
Dan goes full send
Просмотров 144Год назад
A well executed pass by TT2 driver Dam Parmalee. I pointed him by and stayed wide to give him room. There was no danger. But he got a little loose which gave me quite a show. Mixed class Time Trials sure are fun!
Automatic Trailer Threshold Ramp
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.Год назад
I didn't film the construction of this one, but wanted to share the result. Most race trailers have a gap between the rear ramp and the main deck. There's usually a folding threshold of some sort that bridges the gap. I didn't like that I had to unfold mine by hand. And when the ramp was closed, the fill piece fell over and ate up a lot of usable space at the back of the trailer. I added some g...
Powering my house with a 4500 watt 120v generator.
Просмотров 65 тыс.Год назад
With the recent winter power outages in Texas, there's a lot of interest in home generator setups. This is how I run my house using a $900 generator and a simple mechanical interlock. All in, this setup cost me less than $1200. And it lets me run every 120 volt circuit in my house. If I ever get a bigger generator, I can even run my 240 volt equipment, including my air conditioner. The generato...
SHART: Having a little fun at Texas Drift Academy
Просмотров 802 года назад
I've never drifted before. At the end of an hour of training, I was able to perform a reasonably controlled drift. and I was wishing that I had paid for more than an hour lesson. I'm definitely going to be back for more. this was a lot of fun.
Running COTA at night with the Edge Addicts red run group.
Просмотров 3672 года назад
A few times a year, Edge Addicts rents Circuit of the Americas and lets advanced drivers run after dark. The track has minimal night lighting, and my NB Miata has minimal headlights. It makes for an exciting combination!
Rooftop AC Hard Start vs Soft Start. Which works better on a generator?
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.2 года назад
Rooftop AC Hard Start vs Soft Start. Which works better on a generator?
It seemed like a good idea at the time. 1972 Porsche 911 oil filler door.
Просмотров 1202 года назад
It seemed like a good idea at the time. 1972 Porsche 911 oil filler door.
Don't write in the dust on somebody's car.
Просмотров 843 года назад
Don't write in the dust on somebody's car.
Installing a fire system in the CMC Mustang
Просмотров 773 года назад
Installing a fire system in the CMC Mustang
I love the Ford GT. I will never buy a Ford GT.
Просмотров 563 года назад
I love the Ford GT. I will never buy a Ford GT.
Pulling out old fence posts with an engine hoist.
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.3 года назад
Pulling out old fence posts with an engine hoist.
Swapping the transmission in the CMC Mustang
Просмотров 393 года назад
Swapping the transmission in the CMC Mustang
Fixing Crash Damage on the CMC Mustang
Просмотров 433 года назад
Fixing Crash Damage on the CMC Mustang
DIY window inserts for noise reduction.
Просмотров 7093 года назад
DIY window inserts for noise reduction.
Hallo. Grat! I was not sure, if I can do this. But now..... ;). One question. Can I use two separate generators. One to power one side of the service (phase) and second to power second side. I'm not trying to use it as a two 120 generators to create 240.
I don't think that's a good idea. I'd consult an electrical engineer first, but I think they'll tell you not to do it. Better to just run the generators in parallel.
Lot of work. I guess maybe a boring day My thoughts would be put your storage to the rear, and when ramp door is raised, gap plate will fall against it instead of to the floor Nice work tho Thanks for sharing
Dude that's whats up!
Does the furnance work off the generator? I had read some people with a floating neutral generator had issues running furnance burners so the fans were working but not the burners.
The gas furnace works happily on the generator. The generator has a floating ground, but it connects to the main panel, which has a bond between neutral and ground, and a ground stake. So it all works normally.
@@ElQuesoGuapo thnx. I've read when using a 120v generator only half the circuits work. Some people say it's a zip zag others say it's one side or the other. How did you get both to work?
I bet machine repair loves you guys🤣😡
Should you have shut off your whole house surge protector? It is a double poled switch, but I think that is to protect both hots. Not saying this is wrong, but it looked wrong to me.
Use a Victron auto transformer convert 120v to 240v. Much safer.
Your kitty has as nice of a voice as mine! What does it want this time?
He's a foster kitten (now adopted). He was protesting the fact that he was locked up in the guest room and was not allowed to climb inside the piano and attack it while I was trying to fix it.
Thank you for creating this content. The 5000 watter inverter gen I just picked up is 120VAC only and needed to figure out how to wire both legs without shorting out the entire breaker!
Where do you buy that piece?
It came with the trailer. But if you search for "trailer threshold plate" you should get some hits.
@ElQuesoGuapo k thank you
Your septic might be your biggest draw. It is on mine. The refrigerators and furnace are modest.
That is a good point. If I get into an extended outage, I'll leave the septic off. I can go for days before the tank backs up.
Wouldn`t only 1/2 the panel be fired up with 120v 30a plug? A/b circuits?
Not when you jump the 120v across both terminal plugs. Basically, you could leave the 240v breakers on in this situation as it would only be feeding one side of whatever and would not power on. But good practice to turn both off. This is pretty common to do since 240v generators are typically larger and pricier. But, you can get a Genmax GM7500aIED at Sam's Club for $899 shipped that's 7500/6000 watts on gas and 6500/5500 on propane. I have one of those and I can leave my septic pump on as you never really know how much is in that pump tank if/when power goes off. Septic pumps are on 12v so nothing too major. I don't run HVAC or water heater if power is off as they draw too much and power outages are usually short term where I'm at.
I don't understand how a single pole 120V (black OR red circuit, for example) from the inverter can serve the two-pole 120V circuits (black AND red circuits, the odd and even number circuits) at the panel. Thank you for the video. Also, the inverter 120V is 30A. Why did you go with a 50A breaker at the main panel? Thank you for the video.
The single pole feeds both black and red. 240 volt appliances won't work with this setup, but 120 volt devices work normally. I went with a 50 amp breaker at the panel because the breaker's job is to protect the house wiring, not the generator. The house wiring can handle 55 amps, and the input box can handle 50 amps, so a 50 amp breaker is the correct size. The panel's breaker doesn't need to protect the generator. The generator has its own breakers and overload protection built in.
@@ElQuesoGuapoYou must have connected the red wire to one of the double pole breakers. What wire did you connect to the other breaker?
@@peacew6 That's covered in the video. There's a jumper inside the generator cable's plug that connects the red wire to both Red and Black.
@@ElQuesoGuapo Got it. Thanks.
I assume your hot water heater is gas? Otherwise it'd be 240v. Here's a question for ya, wouldn't you get 60 amps total from a 240 v generator? It'd go a lot further. 30A ea side sounds better. For the money and hassle I'd always go with a 240 volt unit hands down.
A 240v generator wold definitely be better. But I already had the 120v, so I did what I could with what I had.
@@ElQuesoGuapo Genmax GM7500iAED at Sam's Club....$899 shipped...just got one a few weeks ago on sale at $799 shipped. 240v 50a plug....7500 starting watts and 6000 running on gas; 6500/5500 on propane. Not sure I'll try powering electric hot water heater, though, but I do have it run the 1hp 120v septic pump and it's no problem. I leave the 5 ton and 2 ton units off, too. Our outages are usually short term. Great video, btw.
I did the same thing with my Honda 2200. Also make sure to turn off any circuits that have shared neutrals,usually on a double pole breaker. So make sure all double pole breakers are off during operation . It powers my fridge, lights and a 6000 btu window unit with no issues. And is quiet as a whisper.
Why not get a autotransformer to step it up from your gen120VAC to 240VAC split phase with a neutral to power your whole house. Yous still have to manage your loads though with your gen size?
I'd never heard of an autotransformer before you mentioned them. I think you're right, it would give me 240 volts, but load management would be the issue. The Westinghouse generator makes 30 amps at 120 volts. After the autotransformer, I'd have 240 volts, but only 15 amps. I don't think that would be enough to run my air conditioner (it's on a 40 amp breaker).
So why did you have the breaker for the whole house surge protector shut off wile on generator?
I shut off all of the 240 volt devices, and the surge protector happens to be 240 volts, so it also got shut off. Your question got me wondering if the surge protector would do its job correctly while on the generator. I'm not sure if it will or not. For now, if I need the generator, I'll leave the surge protector off. I think that the odds of surge while on generator are much lower. While I'm disconnected from the grid, lightning would have to strike the generator or the house itself to create a power surge.
How come 12v generator produce 240v?? I have 120v Generator with 4250 running watts, so can I run stove or furnace or 3ton AC?
It does not produce 240v. It only produces 120v.
Good video with good info, the only thing I'll point out is that probably 95% of everybody wants to power their furnace or their AC or both depending on what time of year their power goes out. There are lots of manual transfer switches and even the interlock devices where you could hook up your generator very easily and if it's winter still run your furnace Laura summer storms knock out your power you can still run your ac. Furnace and AC aren't as high demand as you think they are. If it's the middle of winter here in the Midwest it might get down to -20. That's great if you can keep your microwave working but you're not going to be able to survive unless you still have the capability of running your furnace off your generator.
You're right, there's no way that this generator will power my home's AC. It could run a window unit, giving me a single cool room. And it's got enough power to run my gas furnace in the winter. With a small generator, the rear advantage of a home hookup is that you can ave lights, fridge, and gas furnace, without having to run a mess of extension cords. It's good enough for my area where power outages are infrequent. If I lived in an area with hurricanes, I'd just get a Generac.
Best bet there is to have Heater Buddy propane heaters and maybe a window AC unit to keep a main room cool or warm. There's no way I care to power up my 5 ton 2 stage heat pump with electric aux heat or the 2 ton unit upstairs. And those soft starts have/add their own issues.
Very helpful. thx
Not enough information… too neutral!!!
Its not the dirty power that does the damage, its the voltage "spikes" that hurt the electronics As long as the unit has a voltage regulator and keeps the voltage at 120V, then its fine.
For those who care, as long as you cut off your main breaker BEFORE you start your generator, the linesmen will be fine. No need for the special switch.
Ahh ... lineman are trained to look for energized wires so if they come across it, they dont touch it
Aaaaannnnnnnd that goes against code pretty much everywhere. That's the cheap redneck way but no way I'd do that on my house. Ever.
We could directly add this plug in dryer outlet so we can power house … only think we have to make sure we connect two legs with 120 volt like how you did
That is known as a suicide cord. Don't do it.
@@ElQuesoGuapo What difference it would make? Dryer is installed in garage and dryer cables would run towards breaker and feed in a main breaker Same way if we going to install generator inlet that will also run cables to breaker and power will distribute. What difference it would make?
@@ltp9113 The lack of an interlock means that you can backfeed the grid and kill a lineman. Your cable will have male ends on both ends, which means that you can easily touch the exposed ends and electrocute yourself. And you don't know if the wiring for your dryer is rated for the kind of amperage that your generator can put out. I know you think that you've come up with a good idea. But a lot of other people have gotten the same idea, and have gotten themselves or other people killed. It's called a suicide cord for a reason. Please don't make one. Do the job right, or don't do it at all.
Thank you. I have same generator like you have and going to feed small appliances max 30 amp So i want to make sure that you split 120 into two lines and feed into the grid ride? And yes it won’t run 240 volt but basically you are feeding other leg (120 bolt) for breaker. Thank you so much for detailed video. I wish you had shown how did you connect those wire together just to make sure But I’ll split 120 into 120 volt and feed two hot wires with 240 volt breaker.
@@ElQuesoGuapo ah ok ... suicide arm chair police just spoke
GENIUS
I have the Igen 4500DF and converted it yo use natural gas. Hurricane Francine had knock out my power for 4 days. I only had to stop the generator once to change the oil. I have mine set up the same way. It ran lights, ceiling fans, two refrigerators, Chest freezer, three tv's and a 10,000 BTU window unit with no problems. Who needs to spend $8k for a whole house unit. I have a second unit that i used to run the washer and dryer when needed. It's setup for NG as well. For hurricane Ida we were out of power for 19 days. This little generator was a life saver.
@@JerryHawk250 is there any chance you can show how you wired up the plug with only using 1 wire to power both legs??
@@markbilyk3546just research “dogbone adaptor”.
Great idea. Sure wish you would've filmed that vertically though!😜
Fred's like can I keep that hamster?
This technique would be dangerous for me and the way my house is wired. Many of my 15A and 20A runs use a shared neutral using 14-3 or 12-3 Romex. This means for each lug of the split phase, they ran the red and the black wires off different 120v breakers but then shared the neutral between those two separate circuits in the single Romex, it then branched out to separate circuits at the switch boxes or outlet branches. This only works because if the two 120V circuits pull the same amount of current, the current on the neutral cancels out to zero, if only one circuit pulls 120V current, then the equal current comes back on the neutral, in general this wiring method saves energy and cost because of less neutral runs and the canceling out of current feature reducing the amount wasted transmission loss in the neutral. If I used this 120V generator technique where I connect the two lugs of the split phase together like he did in this video at the generator input plug, I would risk putting 30 amps through my 14gauge neutral feeders if both 15 amp circuits were fully loaded.
That is an excellent point.
Improving the existing garden fence, or building a new one... Higher, more 'massive' and sealed (no gaps in between) would improve the noise reduction even more because than you block or disperse the noise much closer to the source...
Well done
What will you do when you have no more gasoline ???
That’s why you get plenty of gasoline for the period of time you’re gonna need it. What do you think? He just keeps 2 gallons around or something?
@@condor5635yea some people lack common sense
Any chance can you show how you wired the inside of the plug in?? How you made it power both legs with 1 wire
50A should have 6AWG wire. 8AWG wire In your case 30A which is the max you can draw! 10:24
Thanks for commenting. I think you might be looking at a chart for solid wire. Solid 8awg is rated for 40amps. I'm using 8ga THHN/THWN-2 which is rated for 50 amps (per the electrical engineer who advised me and the site that sold me the wire). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah it’s rated at 55 amps for that type of wire.
I power my home with the iGen5000DF. I have a 50 amp inlet box so I just use a 30 amp to 50 amp dogbone adaptor to connect my 30 amp power cord to the 50 amp inlet. The dogbone adaptor comes already internally wired to feed both legs with 120v. The only appliance I have that my generator can’t run is the AC since it’s 240v. With proper load managing, I can run everything else if needed including furnace, hot water heater, and dryer since they run off our house supplied natural gas. That generator works great for our application.
Finally, a video for the common folk looking to get a portable generator to power some basic appliances during a power outage. Informative and well explained! Well done!
Thanks for the info on putting 120VAC to both legs of the breaker box. I have asked other knowledgeable people if I could do what you did with the plug to supply 120VAC to each leg and they said it wouldn't work. I couldn't figure out why this would not work. This video solved my issue, it will work. Thanks
You don’t even have to make a power cord like he did. You can buy “dogbone” adaptors that are already properly wired to function as needed. I have the same setup except I run my generator through a 50 amp inlet box.
you should not do it
In fact, most AC/furnace uses 240VAC, but only the compressor uses 240 yet the gas furnace fan uses 120VAC. Therefore, you may feed the fake 240VAC to the AC/furnace, and it will operate the furnace fan. You don't need the A/C in the winter anyway.
@UKsystems Why? Could you elaborate?
@@weipingshi77845 if it is designed for split phase it is unsuitable for single phase or it would just have been single phase
Thanks for the video. I have a 240 generator but have a friend who does not. Seems like a less sketchy way to jump the 120 vs. jumping it in the panel. You can have a legal 240V panel and generator port wired up.
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So no fridge? :/
someone didn't watch all the way
I can run the fridge. I just shut it off when I'm first starting the generator.
Hiiii this is Revit up. Can i feature your dashcam clips in my compilation video ? linked and fully credited, Thank You !!
Yeah man, go for it. Spread the signal!
@@ElQuesoGuapo thank you so much!
who wouldn't tell anyone about this? lol I think it was awesome
Good job. U gave me some good ideas
The problem is that most folks on the road don't even know when they are driving stupid.
Awesome man, congrats!
Do you still have the westinghouse igen if so how well has it held up
So far I'm happy with it. It doesn't get used that often, but it's been reliable. As with any small engine, the trick is to drain the carb before you store it. I haven't needed to use it to power my house yet, but it's nice to know that it's available if I need it.
Why would you shut off of kk things the refrigerator
I turned it back on. I just shut off the heavy loads when the generator is first coming on, then I add them back one at a time to avoid overloading the generator.
Wtf ?
why didnt you explain how your energizing both legs with a single hot?
He did!! He jumped L1 and L2 in the plug.
He did say it
My main breakers are vertical and the individual ones are horizontal. Is there a lock out device designed to accommodate this lay out?