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OT question for any posters or readers of the exchange on emergency 
power generators appended below:

I have a 10 kW standard residential solar photovoltaic system on my roof 
(no batteries or other added complexities).  I understand that if PG&E 
goes down it stops functioning, and more or less why this is.

Suppose I acquired a small generator and had professionals install the 
necessary (manual) switching to disconnect my house and the solar setup 
from PG&E and connect them to the generator.

Once this switch was thrown and the generator fired up, would the solar 
system function normally while the generator was running?  If so, what 
size generator might be required?


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ORIGINAL POST:

NEWS: Up to 2 years for even small panel cell antennas to be approved in 
San Francisco

In article <higgy-733304.22355230072010@news.announcetech.com>,
 John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote:

> In article <Xns9DC5C2F6F85CDnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13>,
>  Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's not really fair because I live in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo 
> > in 1989, but every ham here has multiple generators.  I have a Honda 
> > EU1000i suitcase portable, a Honda EU3000is 3KW mounted on my service 
> > van, also a comm van in emergencies and a Chinese 6.5KW diesel genset to 
> > power my home off used cooking oil which I have thousands of gallons of 
> > in storage.
> > 
> > All the hams here are similarly powered....
> 
> I provide space at some of my transmitter locations for Ham club 
> repeaters. All of the sites have backup power. My own communications 
> room runs on a 48VDC battery plant floating on a Lorain charger. There 
> is a Generac motor/generator set that starts automatically upon utility 
> failure.
> 
> A number of the groups I am aware of regularly hold drills to test their 
> readiness in the event of widespread power outages. All in all, they are 
> much better prepared than the communications companies. Comcast and AT&T 
> will both go down within hours of a regional outage. AT&T's Uverse 
> batteries will all die, and Comcast doesn't have enough power trucks to 
> cover all of its outside plant at once. Even if they did, the road 
> conditions might not allow the travel.