Quote:
Originally Posted by flatbutt
IMHO you need to weigh how often you're going to need the gennie and how long you need to run it. Do you need it for water?Heat?Cooling?Food storage?
Sandy kept us on our own for 15 days. I was able to run my entire house on 4000W the whole time (water, heat, refrig, lights).
|
I’ll bet you were a popular guy! 15 days is a long time.
Here in urban PacNW, power outages are caused by windstorms, icestorms, and most often wind&icestorms, bringing down trees and powerlines/cablelines. The longest outage I’ve experienced in 16 years here - and only once - was power out for 4 days (internet out for a week). Most outages are only half a day or so, and those happen every other year or so. For a 3 day outage, I’d be fine with just being able to power heat (blower for gas furnace), internet, and spare me a hundred watts for laptop, phone charger, charging battery packs. Hot water would be nice (blower for gas water heater). Freezer isn’t that important to me (worst case, we and the neighbors all eat like kings for a couple weeks).