This morning I was helping out with an office move. I got a call from my wife that the power had gone out. Not really a big deal other than the fact that it was barely drizzling out and far from windy/stormy. So I checked in with the power company and was told it should be back on within 4 hours.
When I got home I fired up the little HF generator...started on the second pull!! I love that little bastard! That would have allowed us to power some lights, baby monitor, etc.
Then I broke out the GZ Nomad and tried charging my phone. Turns out the AA's I'd left in the little charger had gone totally dead in the last few months. So I've plugged that into the laptop to charge. The issue I'm having with it is that, even though it's been charging for a few hours now and is blinking green (indicating greater than 50% charge), it's apparently charging my phone when I plug it in, but the phone (Android S3) has a little red X in the battery icon...that would tell me it's not enough juice to charge it...but it still is... Ideas??
Just for good measure I also hooked up the deep cycle to the trickle charger.
Now we have tons of food/water and some gas but could use some more. Overall, pretty ho-hum. But it certainly caught us TOTALLY off guard. Still no clue what caused it but it came back on sooner than they'd said. Transformer might have gone.
Just figured I'd share and see what yall thought with the GZ.
-Emt1581