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Originally Posted by Catfishjeff
We are in escrow in an 11 month old home in DeSoto with natural gas. According to our inspector, we should go with the 3.5 genny running on natural gas. Anybody have experience with that setup?
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I have an electricity monitor where I can see the actual watts used in real time, so I feel uniquely qualified to answer this.
Bottom line if you want to operate your home as you always do, no this is inadequate.
A 3.5 ton ac unit takes 2700 watts. Your water heater 4500 for electric, tack on spikes to start the AC and you are in solid 10,000 plus watts territory. For a gas powered home you are in 5 to 7.5K watts territory.
The things people point to as big power consumers are not, fridge is 117 watts always on is150 to 300. Anything that is resistance heat sucks down watts
That said if you are not running the entire home, particularly the whole house ac, then 3500 watts will work, you will need to use a 10,000 btu window based ac unit, perhaps slightly larger.