All Power 3,250 Watt Generator

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This should be more than enough to provide the power needed for nuisance_el_gordo's pink troll tent. Now his pink macbook, ipod, and iphone will always be powered.

Everybody will need one of these when the power goes out.

Laptop = 65Watt
PC = 450Watt
Light = 60Watt
Space Heater = 3,000Watt

Ok.. this thing is not enough.

A couple of things on one of these.

1) The 3250 watts is peak, which most of these things cannot run at peak for very long (Ie. 15 minutes). So you are going to run with maybe 12-14 amps (1700 watts) at the 50% load.

2) This won't be all that good for winter or power outages because of the lack of things you can run on it. I mean you can run a few lights, and a george foreman on it. Forget about a TV, Freezer, or anything like that with it.

3) Usually if you are buying one for power outages you look for something that can run a fridge, furnace, freezer, and some basic appliances. Not all at one time, but enough so you can multi task.

This will be fine for camping, but not for a power outage.

nuisance_el_gordo, m0f0, and milf_hunter can start a fire outside the pink troll tent. They will be able to find enough junk to burn, so they don't need space heater.

1625 watts at 1/2 load @ 8 hours @ 4 gallons =
3.25 KiloWatts/Gal

@ $2.20 per gallon, that's $.68 per Kilowatt,

If Gas gets down to $1.25 per gallon, it would be cheaper to generate my own power than to pay the $.40 /Kilowatt SCE charges for heavy usage (like running your air conditioner during the summer).

Skip this, buy a Honda generator. No one else comes close for small engines.

#7 and just as important, hondas are quiet/reliable/efficient...

honda ftw

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Hondas are super expensive

This thing is rated at 2500w continuous, which I think should be more than enough to start the fridge and run the furnace blower, and a few lights besides. Not enough for the above + a stove or oven, but a small microwave would probably be okay in the mix.

We bought a Coleman 5000w (peak) generator about 10 years ago when a windstorm knocked out power for 5 days, and it ran the house just fine, including a single stove element. We had first tried a very small Honda genset, but even though it should have been enough to run a fridge, the compressor motor needed a lot more power just to start.

In a power outage, don't forget to unplug those little instant-hot water heaters, and also make sure your house is disconnected from the city mains. Best bet is to get an electrician to install a switchover box.

#3, why would you pick a rare 3000W space heater when most top out at 1500W so they won't trip a breaker? Further, you can just use a duct with a blower on it to extract the exhaust fumes then by running the generator inside it provides some heat... not a lot, but you don't necessarily want it really warm w/o power or else it takes all that much more to run the fridge/freezer, though that can be put outside if you pre-plan thawing out the food.

If you have no power, 2500W is a lot. You'll be surprised how well you can get by if you have to, besides which you can't leave the gas sitting around for years or it'll go stale so larger generator means more gas to fiddle with, store and rotate into other engines and repurchase till an emergency comes, even if gas stabilizer will buy you some time.

As for a furnace blower, presuming that's a gas furnace you might think instead about a natural gas generator since you already have the fuel supply, and the exhaust duct plus blower you can tap into to serve dual purpose exhausting the generator. You will need valves and possibly a larger blower motor in that case.

I have one and used it for Ike for a week last September. It was great. It ran our refrigerator, small freezer, and it would have ran our two blower motors on our wood furnace if needed. No, it won't run the well pump, or all the lights and the TVs. But what is important until the lights come back on? Food, heat. All this after it had sat for several years. Just run it a few times a year and put Stabil in the gas and keep the mice out of it.

Just hook your house to your Prius.

#15 may have been joking, but some people have done this using a Prius and an inverter.

I drive an electric Chevy S-10 pickup truck, and have a 3000 Watt inverter attached to the truck's huge battery pack. It's silent, and there is no danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. It works great during power failures.

remember running this in your garage with the door closed is not considered "outside".nighty nite sleep tight

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There are a lot of work arounds to "make do" during a power failure. Many things don't run continuously. My fridge runs 20 min. each hour. Furnace motor even less in coldest weather. Time share the generator between these. Shut both off to brew the coffee (1750 watts OUCH).

Think about it.

now im ready for the end of the world!

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