Generator Thread ....When the power goes out...

[basstracker89]

When you calculate the cost of operating one of these along with initial cost, over several days you might find it cheaper to just throw away whatever is in the freezer/fridge and stay in a motel for the duration of the outage. Everyone is in a different situation. It just didn’t add up for us. In a long term outage where fuel availability might be an issue it made even less sense.

That is something to think about

 

[Horsehat]

Totally agree it's not worth it that's why I said get a military diesel generator it doesn't cost the same to operate from what I was reading

We have a couple of small generators we have accumulated along the way. When power is out we use them to run the freezers and refrigerators and the battery backup for the phones and internet. We heat with wood, which influences my thinking on the subject a bit.

 

[lostchild]

When you calculate the cost of operating one of these along with initial cost, over several days you might find it cheaper to just throw away whatever is in the freezer/fridge and stay in a motel for the duration of the outage. Everyone is in a different situation. It just didn’t add up for us. In a long term outage where fuel availability might be an issue it made even less sense.

And if it’s a wide-scale, extended outage?
Just treat it like a vacation, couple hundred miles from home, I guess.
Meanwhile, your pipes freeze and burst, pets and all indoor plants die. Come home to a real mess.

 

[Dusharoone]

And if it’s a wide-scale, extended outage?
Just treat it like a vacation, couple hundred miles from home, I guess.
Meanwhile, your pipes freeze and burst, pets and all indoor plants die. Come home to a real mess.

Back to the basics of life

 

[Dusharoone]

Back to the basics of life

or make this

 

[Dusharoone]

or make this

or this

 

[Dusharoone]

or this

copper converts magnetic energy from the sun to power

 

[Cruisers460]

Just find a military generator

If I remember correctly the military generator operates at 440 hertz, regular power is 60 hertz. So how does this affect your household equipment if you run it off one?

 

[Dusharoone]

If I remember correctly the military generator operates at 440 hertz, regular power is 60 hertz. So how does this affect your household equipment if you run it off one?

It's probably like 220 volts at 50 to 60 HZ it's all selectable

 

[Cruisers460]

It's probably like 220 volts at 50 to 60 HZ it's all selectable

Perhaps it was just the gensets I was considering bidding on, didn't see a selector switch.