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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I understand that my house has some sort of connector in the breaker board that would allow me to install a generator directly to the board to run things in case of an outage.
Is it possible to get a generator that would run the entire house? if not what are the limitations? What size generator would I need for this?
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When we lived up north we had a 12KW generator that could run the refrigerator, water pump, oil furnace, air conditioner and oil water heater (all high current to start) along with house lights, tv's and all that sort of stuff. It was about $6,000 installed, including an automatic transfer panel.
It did not run the electric stove (or an electric hot water heater if you have one)... you would need a much larger generator to do that. But it had no trouble running a microwave.
It didn't run every circuit because we didn't get a transfer panel that could handle all the circuits we had, but with a larger panel it would have. But for all practical purposes that didn't matter.
During a few "weather events" we lived for almost week at a time off that generator. There were a quite a few smaller outages of a few hours too... with the automatic transfer panel though it was had to notice that there was an outage.