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Unfortuately, you listed the water heater and the stove. If you were to go to one of the outdoor or sporting goods dealers and buy a two or three burner gas stove you could get around that one fairly easily. A good one will usually cost $100 or maybe a little less. When you are not using it, it can be left stored in the garage for a long time and still be ready to go buy just hooking up a propane tank to it. The refrigerator and freezer are probably both 115 volt, so you would be OK there with most small generators, same for the other non heating appliances, but adding in the dryer to the 220 volt list is going to run things up to a minamum of 1000 watts, assuming that you don't run them all at the same time. If you plan to run a whole household on a generator, especially an all electric house, I would suggest that you check out one of the larger Generac generators that will run on either diesel or natural gas, and go ahead and get a building permit and have a professional install it.Hi everyone,
The recent power outages in the Portland metro area left my home without electricity for almost 4 days. Luckily I bought a small generator this past summer during the outages in relation to forest fires. My little $300 generator was good to run our fridge, a space heater, a lamp and even the tv/WiFi but I want to upgrade!
I own a 680 sq foot house that is all electric. No gas. I've got a normal fridge, a small reach in freezer, a 4 burner oven, hot water heater, washer, dryer, dishwasher, 3 cadet heaters, lights, tv, WiFi and some lights and plugs in the shed I call my shop.
All that said. What size Generator should I buy? Let me hear some opinions on the dual fuel generators, and how much Is a reasonable amount to pay to have a transfer switch installed in my house?
Also, maybe there's an electrician reading this who wants to take the gig. If so send me a private message.
I hope this thread promotes some good discussion on the topic and maybe next time more of us will be comfortable when the power goes out again.