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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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My thoughts-if you are planning of connecting a generator to your entire home electrical system, it is a job for a licensed electrician. You need to give up room for it and you need to run it once a month or so to keep it in good WORKING condition. For us, the refrigerator is top priority.
It is a capacitor start system so you need more power than what is posted on the motor. You will find charts on the internet.
Questions you might want to think about-What fuel-gas, gasoline. diesel? How long do you expect to run it? The inexpensive ones do not have an oil filter and the oil SHOULD be changed every 24 hours.
We were not in Florida for hurricane sandy but lost power for five days. I often wonder as I watch people. The person next door to us had a generator. First of all with no power out neighborhood was dead silent. The same people who were bitching about the noise of his generator also were bitching as to why he was not powering every home on the block-heck for miles around. Like here, when the power went out gas stations could not pump gas. Trucks had trouble delivering gas to the operating stations etc.
Our neighbor was getting up at 5 am to buy five gallons of gasoline. As they did here the stations would not allow you to buy more than one five gallon can of gas per trip.