dreadlocks
Well-known member
Slightly OT but I think there's more than just me thinking like this, last winter I lost power overnight with a newborn and was a little shocked to see how quick my 60's built house lost all its heat, I've been living here 9 years and that was first time we lost power in the winter.. so this year when I bought a small portable generator (Honda 2200i) for my new adventure trailer I justified much of the honda premium as emergency power to keep the furnace running.
Now that I'm starting to prepare for winter I went out and ran the generator dry just incase it dont get used again this season.. and then it occurred to me, how exactly was I planning on hooking my furnace up to this thing?? a bit of google **** later and I now have one of these installed down next to the furnace: http://ezgeneratorswitch.com/
Before & After
It can switch both neutral and hot (DPDT) if your generator provides a bonded neutral/ground or it can be rewired to switch just hot and use your panel's bonding for an unbonded generator.. My honda is not bonded I rewired it that way in a few seconds, comes setup for a bonded genny.. the furnace should pull no more than 7-8A at startup which is well within my genny's capabilities.
I also picked up some marine stabil fuel stabilizer, I normally run my mower and small gas engines dry then dump the rest of the jug into a car and then get all new in the spring.. but now I wanna keep some gas on standby all winter and use whatever is left (hopefully all of it) next year.. I have plans to remodel my fireplace and turn it into a gas one next year, I'll take this opportunity to have a NG tap installed outside and convert this Honda to a TriFuel, wont have to worry about keeping fuel for it, or running out of fuel in the middle of the night, or ever.
Was super easy to install, and price was right (cheap).. thinking of getting another one for the roof top swamp cooler, then I can have cooling capability w/the genny aswell.
Now that I'm starting to prepare for winter I went out and ran the generator dry just incase it dont get used again this season.. and then it occurred to me, how exactly was I planning on hooking my furnace up to this thing?? a bit of google **** later and I now have one of these installed down next to the furnace: http://ezgeneratorswitch.com/
Before & After
It can switch both neutral and hot (DPDT) if your generator provides a bonded neutral/ground or it can be rewired to switch just hot and use your panel's bonding for an unbonded generator.. My honda is not bonded I rewired it that way in a few seconds, comes setup for a bonded genny.. the furnace should pull no more than 7-8A at startup which is well within my genny's capabilities.
I also picked up some marine stabil fuel stabilizer, I normally run my mower and small gas engines dry then dump the rest of the jug into a car and then get all new in the spring.. but now I wanna keep some gas on standby all winter and use whatever is left (hopefully all of it) next year.. I have plans to remodel my fireplace and turn it into a gas one next year, I'll take this opportunity to have a NG tap installed outside and convert this Honda to a TriFuel, wont have to worry about keeping fuel for it, or running out of fuel in the middle of the night, or ever.
Was super easy to install, and price was right (cheap).. thinking of getting another one for the roof top swamp cooler, then I can have cooling capability w/the genny aswell.