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Originally Posted by HardDrive
So there is a winter storm coming. And I'm hemming and hawing about buying a generator. I'm looking at a Honda 2000. I don't want a whole house generator, just something I can run the furnace and the fridge off.
If the power doesn't go out, I'm going to have buyers remorse over the $1000 red brick sitting in my garage. That $1000 could go to more urgent needs....like a 1911. If it does go out, I will bask in manly glory as my family is warm and snug, while my neighbors suffer like the unprepared scum they are. I'll hook up the X-mas lights just to spite them.  Even if the power does not go out tomorrow, it will out at some point in the future, and I will feel like a genius.
I am suffering cognitive dissonance. Help. |
I feel your pain. I want a generator but we have very reliable power. We have had just one night without power in 18 years. I look at the small Hondas and other generators that will tak up a lot of space in my storage shed when not in use. Non of the portable units will run the central AC if we need the generator in the summer.
Hooking up the generator to the house is not easy. I can't put it in the garage because it has to be outside. That means I need a generator that I can plug into just a 110 outlet. I have to kill the main breaker so I don't back-feed the line. Then if the power comes on I don't know until I notice a neighbors lights are on.
All of that always moves me to a natural gas powered Generac big enough to run the AC in the summer and all of a sudden I am at a mega thousand dollar spend. ACK.
I go back to thinking about the one grand units just to run the fridge and natural gas central heat.