Leave all your lights off, start the genny, plug it in, and let the fridge cool down during the day. In the evening you should be able to use a couple of lights, since your fridge will be cooled and down and won't need to run as much. From your description about the "cord from hell" it should be of the right gauge to handle the load. There should be marking on the side. Look for a two numbers separated by a slash.
This will tell you what size it is and how many wires conductors are in it. If it is a 4 conductor wire then it can be used for V or V depending on the type of plug you have on the ends and how they are connected. Joined Sep 14, Messages 4, My 5K watt handled everything I needed during out 70 hour outage from Irene, well pump, 2 fridges, water heater I alternated this with the fridges.
Lights, internet, TV, etc. Pascal Petty Officer 1st Class. Joined Jul 9, Messages I'm heading up tonight, and will hopefully get there before dark.
From what I understand, power is slowly comming back up there. Town Hall has power, and the list of roads with outages on CMP's website are going down.
If I still don't have power by the time I get there, I would think I would by tomorrow as they are now patching together all the localized outages. I spent some time today at work going through the genny.
Cleaned out all the year old gas, installed a inline fuel filter, cleaned up the carb, did another oil change. I also found that the silly thing had a small 2 stroke style spark plug installed DJ8J.
I believe the jamook who owned this first probably installed it after he tossed the rod hoping that it would some-how fix it. I recalled a mental note that I made to my self after I rebuilt it change the spark plug to the right one! I believe I had left that small plug in there just to see if it would run, then forgot about it.
It's now running with no little sputters. Fishing Dude too Lieutenant Junior Grade. Joined May 13, Messages 1, Turns out there was power at the camp when I got up there, so didn't need the generator.
No major damage to the place, other than the hook that holds the phone line to the side of the cottage was ripped out by a branch. The fridge was a disgusting mess. Seems that when the power went out, the meat in the freezer thawed, then bled out filling the fridge below with blood. That was a 2hr process late at night for me to clean out the contents, then bleach the fridge down so I could unload my cooler with new food. The generator did come in handy once though.
I accidentally left the key to my mothers Blazer on one click over night, so the next day the battery was stone dead. Rather than pester one of the neighbors for a battery charger, I used the 12V charge port on the generator to charge the battery.
It took 45 minutes to recharged the battery, but seemed to work good. Thanks again to anybody who contributed to this thread. Had a fridge go to defroast caught when we walked in at 2 in the morning on a friday night. Funny part was wife put the new food in fridge, then as me as I entered the house. I kne what it was rght off the bat. Hauled fridge out of the house, made a trip to wally world for ice, then fridge shopping next day. Rented home depot truck to haul fridge fom ABC wearhouse.
They took the old fridge but didn't want it when we got there but they took it. You must log in or register to reply here. Another factor you will need to calculate is the starting wattage. What this means is that some appliances, such as those that contain an electric motor, require more watts to start up than to actually run.
These include refrigerators, air conditioners, power tools, air compressors, bore pumps to name a few. To calculate the starting watt requirement, with most appliances it is generally 2 to 3 times more than the running watt requirement.
This is the amount of power that the generator can safely put out for an extended period of time. Some devices also require a large amount of starting wattage compared to their running wattage. For example, a washing machine may require W while running, but 2,W while starting. You may want to differentiate what will be constantly running as well as the maximum amount of power that you'll need.
You can get more electrical device load calculations here. When choosing a generator, it's a good idea to oversize it. If your load is going to be 1,W then it may be best to look a generator that can deliver 2,W.
This may cause severe damage to all electrical appliances and it creates an electrical hazard to all persons.
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