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Originally Posted by daepp
I've often wondered - how long do you run a generator considering the refrigerator or freezer only run a short time till thermostat turns them off. Do you sit and listen for this?
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Though I have never had the necessity in a serious, long-term outage in an emergency situation, as in no way out to get fuel, in the winter you can get by with running a gererator 4 hrs/day: 2hrs in the AM upon rising, and 2 hrs in the evening before calling it a night provided you have enough wattage to run the entire house. Essentially, for 4 hours out of each day you can live pretty normally.
If you don't have enough wattage, you'll have to stagger the appliances, making sure everything doesn't come on at the same time by opening/closing circuits on the panel.