Ok. So specifically it’s one of those probability things, the natural gas supply is more likely to work than the electric supply, so most widespread long term natural gas outages are going to leave you with service. But similarly most such outages will leave you with some gasoline somewhere, even if you have to drive 100 miles to get it. And depending on the climate zone you might still have solar panels.
Anyways I would like to know what you have in terms of “a bit for electronics, refrigeration, fans, sump pump, boiler, etc, depending on the situation. Much of that I can directly run off of the solar, but I have a battery backup system I spent a few hundred dollars on to fill in the gaps.”
Some inverters let you do this. Do you have an SMA with EPS? What did you spend a few hundred dollars on?
Awesome, thank you. Ah I see, at 220 watts just for your furnace your own plot says you should have bought a generator, because a power outage longer than 4 hours is quite possible. And a shorter power outage you won’t miss the lack of heat anyways.
And a proper convenient setup is that you install a generator receptacle, like this one, somewhere outside near the main electrical panel. This goes to a breaker on your main electrical panel, which is made mutually exclusive with an interlock kit like this one.
As for generators, which I did the research I found this generator to be a good option. Cheap, tri fuel, and enough power output to easily run an entire house.
Another option in your specific case would be to rearrange your electrical panel so that all the important 120v loads are on one side, and then use a 120v generator like a small inverter generator like this one. This would be more fuel efficient.
Per your original question, if your natural gas plumbing is convenient to the location where the generator receptacle would go, then you might want to pay someone to install a spiggot there where you can fuel the generator on natural gas.
at 220 watts just for your furnace your own plot says you should have bought a generator, because a power outage longer than 4 hours is quite possible
I think you’re overlooking the solar? Which can both run the furnace directly and recharge the battery.
I don’t need to have the same level of heat in an emergency as not; only being able to run the furnace for part of the time is still very useful.
This goes to a breaker on your main electrical panel, which is made mutually exclusive with an interlock kit like this one.
I’m not interested in using my normal household wiring in an emergency like this, because I think I’m going to want almost everything to be off. With regular wiring it’s too easy to use more power than you intend. Instead, I think I would be just plugging in my furnace, sump pump, basement freezer, etc as needed.
Ok. So specifically it’s one of those probability things, the natural gas supply is more likely to work than the electric supply, so most widespread long term natural gas outages are going to leave you with service. But similarly most such outages will leave you with some gasoline somewhere, even if you have to drive 100 miles to get it. And depending on the climate zone you might still have solar panels.
Anyways I would like to know what you have in terms of “a bit for electronics, refrigeration, fans, sump pump, boiler, etc, depending on the situation. Much of that I can directly run off of the solar, but I have a battery backup system I spent a few hundred dollars on to fill in the gaps.”
Some inverters let you do this. Do you have an SMA with EPS? What did you spend a few hundred dollars on?
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Awesome, thank you. Ah I see, at 220 watts just for your furnace your own plot says you should have bought a generator, because a power outage longer than 4 hours is quite possible. And a shorter power outage you won’t miss the lack of heat anyways.
And a proper convenient setup is that you install a generator receptacle, like this one, somewhere outside near the main electrical panel. This goes to a breaker on your main electrical panel, which is made mutually exclusive with an interlock kit like this one.
As for generators, which I did the research I found this generator to be a good option. Cheap, tri fuel, and enough power output to easily run an entire house.
Another option in your specific case would be to rearrange your electrical panel so that all the important 120v loads are on one side, and then use a 120v generator like a small inverter generator like this one. This would be more fuel efficient.
Per your original question, if your natural gas plumbing is convenient to the location where the generator receptacle would go, then you might want to pay someone to install a spiggot there where you can fuel the generator on natural gas.
I think you’re overlooking the solar? Which can both run the furnace directly and recharge the battery.
I don’t need to have the same level of heat in an emergency as not; only being able to run the furnace for part of the time is still very useful.
I’m not interested in using my normal household wiring in an emergency like this, because I think I’m going to want almost everything to be off. With regular wiring it’s too easy to use more power than you intend. Instead, I think I would be just plugging in my furnace, sump pump, basement freezer, etc as needed.