Posted by CLTX on February 01, 2010 at 16:52:21 from (70.140.69.93):
In Reply to: Generator ideas (Home) posted by john in La on February 01, 2010 at 12:37:03:
JohninLa, I've had a fair amount of experience with marine generators. With any type of generator, you get what you pay for. If you have a good tractor, a PTO generator is the way to go. Get a good American PTO generator. There was a thread a few days ago on this forum, I believe, about PTO driven generators. As for stand-along gasoline gensets, I once had a Honda 4500 watt unit, which did outstanding duty. If you want more kw's, Generac makes sense. If you are on natural gas, that's another way to go in a stand alone wired in genset. Onan is a very reliable set, but all gasoline gensets are fuel hogs, and gasoline is not readily availabe in power outages. In a hurricane outage, you need a/c. and possibly a water well, as well as refrigerator, deep freeze , light, etc. Unless you plan to run extension cords (not practical with a/c, water well), you need to have everything ready to tie into your home system, totally isolated from the grid, as Buickanddeere mentioned previously. Don't wait until the power is out, then decide how to hook it up; that's like closing the barn door after ..... Unless you are an electrician, have a professional do the job. If you have the tractor, the PTO route is probably the best way to go. And remember to locate the power unit, regardless of type, away form the house, because of the CO2 danger. Several people died in Ike because of carbon monoxide poisoning. Just my two cents worth.
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