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Small Generator “Trick” to Power Your Home

I don’t want you to get the wrong idea and believe that you can magically power your entire home’s needs from a small generator. But like he says, you don’t actually need a lot of power most of the day. And if you’re willing to do without some major appliances (and get an electrician to add an interlock switch), you can effectively power your home with a relatively small generator without sacrificing conveniences most of us expect, like lights and refrigeration.

That said, you won’t be able to run larger appliances, like your home HVAC system or an oven, but there are other ways to keep warm (or cool) and cook food off-grid instead of relying on electricity. Ultimately, the primary focus of this “trick” is to conserve fuel that all larger generators consume like hogs.

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Damian Brindle

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  1. GregE

    We run off 240V here in Australia, I think from memory it was going to be too expensive to have a “whole house” switching connector for the gen set so we just run extension cords to the essential devices so not connected to the normal mains circuit and when running, we charge deep cycle 12V batteries which allows us to run low powered devices via an invertor so for heavy draw like the water pumps (no mains water) or water heater etc. I find the small generators tend to clog up even using normal unleaded fuel (no ethanol) so when there is a power outage we normally run a fairly big diesel generator (I think rated to 8KVA) for 3-4 hours to do the heavy lifting and charge the batteries, like he says in the video, a large and small generator set up is quite good but still requires fuel so a small camping solar setup might work better for the low power stuff like the router and computer or phones? Note also that 12V invertors can be run off a car battery but you do have to monitor the state of charge else you might not have enough “juice” to restart the car.

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