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Message: <blockquote data-quote="geezer77" data-source="post: 4124489" data-attributes="member: 49872"><p>We lost power for 9 days a few years back during huge ice storm that hit the central OK area. I kept the fridges and freezers going by playing musical power cords with our little Honda EU2000i portable, but it was definitely not fun because the little Honda can't power a 240V water well pump. It goes without saying that when mama can't flush, mama ain't happy. She did not consider the nearby woods a viable option. So after 4-wheeling back and forth to a neighbor's generator-powered house with loads of 5-gallon water buckets for 9 days, we considered a 20-25KW auto-start. However, lack of natural gas service out where I live kills that idea. So it came down to burying a new LP tank near the house, which turns out to be a very expensive project in itself. We're all electric except for a 250 gal propane tank that heats a separate shop building. Buying and burying a new 1000 gal LP tank, combined with the generator & switch purchase/install would have pushed the cost north of $22K at last year's prices, and with Bidenomics that's probably a LOT higher now. So we opted for a Honda EU7000i on wheels feeding a 12-circuit manual transfer switch. Total was around $7K including switch install. This does of course require me to roll out the generator and flip a few switches when an outage starts to look like it might last a while, but it runs everything we need including fridges, freezers, water well (!), coffee makers, microwave, toaster oven, TV, lights, WiFi and Internet, etc. Essentially everything except kitchen stove and the heat pump. Works for us and we pocketed around $20K. Oh, and the Honda is so quiet we literally can't hear it running in the house, which is an amazing thing, and appreciated by the neighbors too.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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