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Re: T&T: 30 micron vs 30amps, raining cats and dogs

From: Ken Tischler (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2006 - 19:23:03 EDT

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    Thanks for some humorous relief to the tedious posts of the past couple of
    weeks. The Admiral and I got some good chuckles out of this!

    Ken Tischler
    MV Microship
    Defever 49 RPH

    On 7/10/06, Doug Gould <> wrote:
    >
    > The other day, I was grinding some fish for my cat,
    > trying to filter out the bones with a 2 mircon coffee
    > filter attached to a Waring XL2300 blender on puree
    > setting, powered from 120VAC on a single leg 30amp
    > breaker fed from a 15amp shore power cord, which is
    > plugged into an outlet shared with a soda machine that
    > sells Bolivian beer. Although the breaker didn't trip,
    > my cat wouldn't eat the food.
    >
    > So I'm wonder if the list can recommend a better set
    > up. My dock neighbor has suggested a 12vdc blender
    > plugged through a cigarette lighter outlet, but then I
    > think I should use a 20 micron filter, to lessen the
    > dc load, unless you think I should just feed the stuff
    > to my neighbor's dog though a 5/8" garden hose. My
    > mechanic says the problem is I'm taking power from the
    > 2000 watt inverter, which overloads the system, and
    > suggested I try a vacuum instead of a blender, but I
    > can't seem to figure out how to plug the inverter into
    > my racor vacuum gauge, which would replace the 20
    > micron coffee filter. My wife has a Hoover vacuum, but
    > that won't run on the inverter unless I'm making
    > coffee at the same time, but then we don't have enough
    > filters for the blender, so not only does the cat get
    > hungary, but the breaker trips on the genset,
    > especially when the Hoover gets clogged with cat hair.
    > I've bled the Waring and the Hoover, but still the cat
    > won't touch the food. We've even tried coffee grounds
    > in the racor, but then the genset runs like crap, and
    > I only get about 92volts AC from that.
    >
    > hope the list can make some meaningful suggestions.
    >
    > Doug
    > Water Torture
    > Block Island
    >
    > ps: the Bolivian beer soda machine is next to a ping
    > pong table. Do you think I should move the table
    > farther away from the outlet?
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