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valhalla360
Feb 17, 2021Navigator
Gdetrailer wrote:
Are they going to be interested in dragging the gen out, checking oil level, hooking up to natural gas, pull start and then run extension cords all over the place?
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If your power is going out once or twice a month or for days at a time, I could buy your argument.
If it's once or twice a year for a few hours, not so much.
We've never found ourselves in the first case.
Of course, you can do a hybrid solution. Get an electric start portable and build a vented doghouse for storage in the yard. Generally if it's not going to be weeks (never have seen that), I want the fridge, freezer, and furnace running. Maybe add the entertainment center. A portable can easily handle that. That doesn't require a host of extension cords around the house and if it concerns, you run them semi-permanent where they are tucked up out of the way.
If I was having regular power outages, I would look into if the well pump could be replaced with a 120v version.
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