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[Ronin]

12 years ago I had an electrician setup a manual transfer switch to power 2/3's of our home with a 6500 watt Honda generator. My wife gets up at 6:00 AM to get ready for work so I joyfully - haha - get out of our comfy bed and stumble outside in the dark to fire up the Honda. We're on a well so hot showers and coffee are a necessity in our world. My family lived off the grid on the Big Island. We only had a generator for lights, collected rain water, bathed in a wood fired hot tub ( O-Furo ), and cooked on a wood stove - no wonder dad never wanted to go camping when we moved to the mainland!!

[klahanie]

This tread motivated me to finally put a plug in the supply circuit for the furnace. And arrange the stored camper so I can easily use it's inverter to power an extension cord into the house for short term furnace, freezer or other appliance use.

 

So thank you !

[takesiteasy]

Well I'm sure thankful for our reliable power here in the northland. Rare occasional outages from storms are about the only thing we have to worry about. Best wishes to all of you dealing with shutoffs.