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Nothing wrong with a portable
Posted by Noel [Email] (more from Noel) on Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:43:41
In Reply to: Standby generators, BobS, Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:30:11
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We have a gasoline Westinghouse 6500 watt (8250 startup watts) that we roll out as needed. I think it cost $600 at Home Depot.
I helped an electrician pal hard-wire it to the house, so all we have to do is roll it out, plug it in, fire it up, and when it's running smoothly (30 seconds) transfer the power at the switch panel in the basement. That disconnects the street power and runs all the juice to the house. Painless.
It runs the stove, reefer, well pump, furnace, a bunch of lights on both floors. Goes ~10 hours on a tank of unleaded. I put fuel stabilizer in the tank with fresh gas in the fall and it's good all winter. Have an electric start (easier for my wife) and it fires on the first hit. A battery maintainer keeps the battery topped up.
A neighbor has a propane generator, and his big propane tank gets refilled least at every other day during a long outage, which are not uncommon where we are in NH (our record is 7 days).
I have gasoline around anyway for yard equipment, so that's no biggie, and storing some in the generator tank seems to work fine. Have done this for several years, no issues.
If I was building a place new and had natural gas coming to the house I'd consider doing a nat gas one, but as a retro fit, gasoline does the job very effectively.
Posts in this Thread:
- Standby generators, BobS, Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:30:11
- Re: Standby generators, Skip, Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:19:03
- Re: Standby generators, AdamSAAB2kAero
, Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:23:17 - Nothing wrong with a portable, Noel, Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:43:41 <-- Viewing This Message
- I would not discard the idea of a portable one just yet, dmz789qqq, Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:32:11
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