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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
I'm looking to buy an inverter generator for emergency power-out use at home. It would be used to power just a few essentials: upright freezer, modem, a light or two, maybe a fan. Not wanting to park a behemoth in the garage as well as not wanting to irritate the neighbors with some loud, exhaust-belching something-or-other that produces far more power than I need, I'm looking not to go overboard on this.
The unit I'm looking at is a compact model Westinghouse rated for 2,500 peak watts and 2,200 running watts.
Would that be sufficient to power what I've mentioned?
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Caution on what type of inverter generator you buy. Modified sine wave inverters or True sine inverters. True sine wave inverters are best if plugging in computers or other sensitive electronics, but are more expensive. Refrigerators will run on modified sine wave inverters but, modified sinewave (more appropiate name, 'modified squarewave') will have more continuous current through the electrolytic based starter capacitor which will significantly shorten its lifespan. When starter capacitor starts to go bad the compressor start current goes up shortening its lifespan.