We also put the finishing touches on another "just in case" facet: the auxilliary power source. We already had the aux power panel installed from last December, but I never got around to providing the feed from the generator set. Not any more. At first, I was gonna take the easy route and provide the feed from inside the garage area, next to the breaker panels. I would run an umbilical underneath the garage door to the gennie outside in the driveway....or not. Ultimately, I didn't like the idea of running a power cord under the garage door, nor the thought of all the tiny critters loving the gap it would create in the middle of winter. Dski helped talk me out of that one and we did it the right way....thru the wall to an outlet outside. I didn't want to go that route because it meant cutting a hole thru the nice siding that I just finished installing. Actually, if I had anticipated a bit better, I would'a done it that way anyway. The real issue was doing surgery to cut the square hole in the siding without collateral damage. Enter Mr. Multi tool. Unreal...you gotta add this thing to your power tool arsenal. I mean, it was more accurate than if I had done when I was installing the siding. Very nice. We had to drop out out of the bottom of the aux panel to a box to run outside. I was proud that I remembered to bring my bending hickey since there was a 2" offset in the drop pipe. I wasn't so proud when I discovered that I brought the 1/2" hickey...not the 3/4" that I needed. OK, it looks like it's time to use the hillbilly bending hickey; wedged between a couple of 2 x 6's and lean hard. OK, so it's more of a kink than a fluid bend. It works.
I closed my eyes, imagined it was 5 degrees outside and the utility power just failed. I hopped into action!
