30A adapter

valhalla360 wrote:
Most of the portable inverter generators that have the 30amp outlet are the TT-30 design..

Not that I've seen most are the round Twist Lock (NOT Marinco) kind Nema something or another.

Raife, since you don’t have a gas furnace, you might want to consider installing a freestanding stove that uses either NG or wood pellets for fuel. Until recently, I had a wood burning stove, and one of the circuits I made sure the standby generator energized was the one that the stove uses for the blower fan.

After over 30 years of dealing with firewood, though (actually it’s the firewood dealers I was sick of dealing with) I replaced the woodstove with a Harmon XXV-TC pellet stove. I can’t say enough good things about that stove. It is totally automated in its operation, and the maintenance of it is so much easier than than a wood burner. Building a fire in the pellet stove involves touching the “On” icon on the touchscreen panel on top. It lights itself and controls the burn rate to maintain the room temperature with a wireless temperature sensor. The fuel is so much easier and cleaner to store, too.

We never lost power during that winter storm we just had, but the igniter in my main gas furnace decided to fail the day it started snowing so I couldn’t use it. The pellet stove was providing most of the heat in my house for several days. The burn rate got as high as 70 lbs/24 hrs, or almost two bags a day. I would have been hurting without it.

I know there are also freestanding NG fueled stoves that look similar to a pellet stove, and their power requirements would be about the same. Probably less maintenance than a pellet stove though.

:):)

Raife, man I was down in the Texas mess at our boys hockey tournament!
It was a 5 alarm madhouse down there.
Finally ended up ditching the hotel with no power for 2 + days and hijacking our rental car to Albuquerque to get a flight home.
Buy that genny and a pallet of space heaters and then you can guarantee that weather will never happen again!
Actually told my buddy in Albuquerque he should pull out every penny he had in the bank and fill his race trailer with generators, space heaters and gas cans and hump it down there. He would have made a fortune!
That said, you don’t need near that big of generator to wait out a little power outage. With the odds against what happened this year happening again. If your camper doesn’t have a genny I’d think about getting a smaller dual purpose unit.

We have a 7k generator for power outages. Pretty common occurrence here in the coastal PNW. I plug it in and we just keep going like the power was on.
But for even more occasional use and versatility, I’d be thinking smaller honestly. JMO.

We have a heat pump system, so I will have to look into if we are able to run it. I plan on buying a couple electric heaters now while demand is low. When we lived in CO, we had a 2 zone system, 2 dedicated furnaces and 2 dedicated AC units...it was awesome.

That’s why I mentioned that the generator could be used to run a gas furnace. Furnace fan motors are typically 120 volts, and will require much less wattage than electric heaters, so if at all possible you should make it possible to use your gas furnace in a power outage. Letting your house freeze up is not a good idea at all.

That kind of cold doesn’t happen often in TX, but as we just saw, when it does happen, it’s bad. I’m “next door” in AR, and it got cold enough here that I was having to pay very close attention to how cold the vulnerable water pipes in my house were getting. Some of my neighbors didn’t pay attention and had frozen/broken water lines.

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valhalla360,

A house without a furnace never occurred to me--so thanks for pointing that out.

If you wished to run electric heaters, where I live 8000 watts would not be enough--and would barely do my RV where my peak load is 7300 watts, and continuous load is 5400.

Thank you for the last couple of posts/responses...very helpful. I will amend my earlier statement regarding boondocking and requalify the trailer use as "to live in during an extended power outage while the trailer is parked in our driveway."

It is true that my primary at this point is for home emergency use.

I was actually looking at the Westinghouse first, but they were NOWHERE in stock...I am on alerts from several retailers and even Westinghouse themselves. However, I see that Amazon has them in stock now.

The natural gas is still very appealing as I can use it for an extended time without needing to refuel and it is a minimal cost (thank you NRALIFR for your perspective).

If we ever decide to actually boondock (which is likely rare) I will look into getting a quiet generator.

Thank you for everyone's perspectives.

pianotuna wrote:
For what you plan to run 8000 watts is overkill.

We got caught in that same storm in Texas one of the big problems was down south, a lot of the houses didn't have furnaces, so there was a run on electric space heaters (of course ours crapped out the day before temps dropped but at least we still had the furnace in the RV, so only a minor hassle of keeping up on propane).

8k watts isn't overkill to run 3-4 1500w space heaters in the house.

That said, it's a pretty poor choice to take camping.

I have used a construction type genny for years as a home backup and a couple times to power my camper. If the op is somewhere that his home has a well instead of city water, he likely has to have a 240 connection to power the well. I made a cord and cutoff for that purpose with the old Honda, and then used a 15 amp extension cord to power the fridge and a couple lights along with it.
If that is not the case and he wants a larger genny for dual use the 4500 watt from Westinghouse may be a great compromise although IF the natural gas connection was a major attraction, this may not meet your wishes.

wa8yxm wrote:
NOTE.. You may need to do somethign "illegal".....That something is connect green and white together to teh white screw on the generator end of the adapter . Green is often Not Connected in the Generator,

It's not "illegal" on a generator. It is only "illegal" in a subpanel connected to the grid.