[BVARC] A Thank You to John Stratton, ARRL West Gulf Division Director
Bruce
kk5do at arrl.net
Sun Apr 4 20:11:20 CDT 2021
We had our Generac whole house generator installed in August, 2020. Our
house is all electric. Shortly after, someone cut down a tree about a
1/2 mile from us, it fell on a utility pole knocking out power to our
entire street for 8 hours. The generator was great during that summer
heat. Then came the cold of February and it worked great for 4 days. The
neighbors on both sides of me and behind me all have generators. The
$10,000 investment will never be recovered however, having power is
wonderful. In fact, it cost me about $1.25 an hour in natural gas to run
the generator. Could not be more pleased.
For those getting a generator, if you go after a Generac, be sure to
watch their website for warranty specials. I have a 10-year warranty
plus the first year onsite service. Paid my dealer for 5 years of onsite
above that. Changing the oil is a piece of cake as I had to do it during
the cold. Every 25 hours of run time. I bought 6 filters and a bunch of
5W30 synthetic oil to do it during an emergency when the dealer could
not come out. Takes about 10 minutes to change it.
Enjoy your generator.
73...bruce
On 4/4/2021 7:57 PM, k5hm.ron--- via BVARC wrote:
>
> For those of you who don’t know John, I met him when he was the
> Division Vice Director. He is very active in the ARRL and a great
> advocate for hams in Texas. He has been a frequent presenter at our
> Ham Fest and club meetings. He knows his way around Texas
> politicians too. I’ve never had much use for lawyers but John is the
> exception. Perhaps because like me, he is also an engineer.
>
> Dear John,
>
> I wanted to thank you for your persistence in guiding the Texas
> legislature to pass recent legislation regarding HOA’s preventing the
> installation of standby generators.
>
> During the recent Texas freeze my XYL and I were without power for 4
> days We existed by camping out in our family room with the cats and
> the gas fireplace and lots of flashlight batteries. Fortunately, we
> have a gas stovetop, so we were able to prepare food. When it was
> over, I vowed, we would not have to live without heating and AC winter
> or summer. We signed with a local dealer and hopefully we will have
> the standby system installed before the 2021 hurricane season begins.
>
> While we were going through the paper work with the company rep, he
> showed us a suggested letter we could send to our HOA that stated
>
> “I understand it is my responsibility to obtain all HOA approvals for
> my whole house generator system. I acknowledge /Quality Generators/
> cannot act on my behalf in dealings with my HOA.”
>
> It was then I remembered John talking about his legislation regarding
> this problem. So I Googled it. There it was in black and white.
> Texas Property Code Section 202.019. I
>
> It reads: Except as provided by this section, a property owners'
> association may not adopt or enforce a dedicatory instrument provision
> that prohibits, restricts, or has the effect of prohibiting or
> restricting an owner from owning, operating, installing, or
> maintaining a permanently installed standby electric generator.
>
> Thanks again John.
>
> 73,
>
> Ron, K5HM
>
> k5hm.ron at gmail.com <mailto:k5hm.ron at gmail.com>
>
> www.qrz.com/db/k5hm <http://www.qrz.com/db/k5hm>
>
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>
> * Excelsior!*
>
>
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