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Old 09-26-2022, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
I'm more curious how you'd get TV and internet if the connection to the TV stations, and the connection to the internet outside the house has no electricity. They are all powered by electricity.

Electricity in your house won't get internet access to a server that has no electricity.
Extension cords. Modem, TV, I have several cords to power all. In reality in an emergency you will live in the LR and MBR.

Specifically, the extension cords are laid out this way:
-one 50' cord terminating in six outlets. This leads inside and powers everything inside.

-one 50' cord outside to the tankless water heater, this powers the electronics of the gas powered heater

In the home pluged into the cord to the generator there is:

one cord leads to the kitchen to power the fridge and router

One leads to the LR to power the TV and a light

The final interior cord runs to power a fan and a light in the MBR.

If your counting there are three more outlets for a floater cord to power whatever you need.
Each of the three interior cords terminates in a three outlet cord.

I use 12 gauge extension cords

In the power outage that I lived through there was internet. Near our home there was a small utility type of box that had a small generator running, looking back it was probably the cable/internet backup generator

Last edited by Toymeister; 09-26-2022 at 04:52 PM.