[Jims5543]

We are experts at this in Florida. You should be able to run your furnace and maybe a few other things.

Get an Electrician to install a capacitor in the line to your air handler this will make the cranking amps lower and take some tress off the generator.

Then you can make a pigtail that plugs into your dryer plug and then into a generator.

Throw your main breaker and then throw all your fuse panel breakers including the dryer.

Plug your pigtail in and fire up the generator, let it warm up for a few minutes. Throw your dryer braker, now your fuse panel is hot but cut off from the main lines. Then throw the breaker on for the heater, let it start up and get running.

Then you can throw breakers for a few other items granted you generator is big enough and the amperage will not overload it. You should be able to find a chart online for load requirments for items.

Living for 20 days without power in Sept. 2004 made me go out and buy a 15KW generatr that runs on propane. I can run for about 10 days now on a tank of propane.

Of course after I install it El Nino hits and there are no more Hurricanes.... not that I am complaining.