Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Normal
We live in South Central Virginia, and can count on at least one outage every winter due to ice storms. Currently we use a 5000 Kw Kawasaki portable generator which will power the essentials- light, heat and, water pump. We can watch the **** tube. Can't use the electric stove or other high resistance units. I usually turn the generator off when we go to bed to conserve the gasoline supply. I'd like to have a standby generator for convenience, and I'd like to replace the electric stove for a propane unit, but just a simple stove without a clock, timer or other fancy stuff. I can still cook outdoors with two Big Green Eggs and a Karubecue wood fired smoker. The KBQ needs current to run the fans but that is a minimal load. Heat is oil fired baseboard hot water, power for the gun and little water pump is not a heavy load. I should have installed an OWB years ago but was working two jobs and no time to cut wood then. Shouda, coulda, woulda, you know how that goes....So a standby unit that will run the essentials without choking up if two heavy users are working and can be turned off and on manually would fit my needs. I already have a manual transfer switch so I can get by without an ATS.
We live in South Central Virginia, and can count on at least one outage every winter due to ice storms. Currently we use a 5000 Kw Kawasaki portable generator which will power the essentials- light, heat and, water pump. We can watch the **** tube. Can't use the electric stove or other high resistance units. I usually turn the generator off when we go to bed to conserve the gasoline supply.
I'd like to have a standby generator for convenience, and I'd like to replace the electric stove for a propane unit, but just a simple stove without a clock, timer or other fancy stuff. I can still cook outdoors with two Big Green Eggs and a Karubecue wood fired smoker. The KBQ needs current to run the fans but that is a minimal load.
Heat is oil fired baseboard hot water, power for the gun and little water pump is not a heavy load. I should have installed an OWB years ago but was working two jobs and no time to cut wood then. Shouda, coulda, woulda, you know how that goes....
So a standby unit that will run the essentials without choking up if two heavy users are working and can be turned off and on manually would fit my needs. I already have a manual transfer switch so I can get by without an ATS.
