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

[Ken Tischler]

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 <doug@5goulds.com> 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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