I’ve used a gas/propane generator for years. We also have a manual transfer switch to plug the generator into our house.
The best thing I can say about it is that there’s not much to say about it. When we have a power outage I can plug it in, flip the transfer switch, start it up and continue living my life. No fussing around.
The biggest downside is that capacity is limited so you can’t run everything that you’d normally run. I live in the Midwest so if we have a power outage when it’s cold enough I have to shut off our water main (can turn it back on for short amounts of time to flush toilets and get drinking water otherwise it can freeze and burst pipes) and confine ourselves to a small section of the house I can heat with space heaters. A generator that would power our central electric heat is prohibitively expensive. We’re considering re-locating to another Midwest location and a key priority for the new place is a gas/propane furnace which will continue to run during a power outage if you have a generator capable of running the blower on the unit. (The blower takes very little power to run)
Apparently, it’s important to get an inverter-type of generator if you’re wanting to run computers and stuff off of it so that’s what I’ve always used.
I’ve used a gas/propane generator for years. We also have a manual transfer switch to plug the generator into our house.
The best thing I can say about it is that there’s not much to say about it. When we have a power outage I can plug it in, flip the transfer switch, start it up and continue living my life. No fussing around.
The biggest downside is that capacity is limited so you can’t run everything that you’d normally run. I live in the Midwest so if we have a power outage when it’s cold enough I have to shut off our water main (can turn it back on for short amounts of time to flush toilets and get drinking water otherwise it can freeze and burst pipes) and confine ourselves to a small section of the house I can heat with space heaters. A generator that would power our central electric heat is prohibitively expensive. We’re considering re-locating to another Midwest location and a key priority for the new place is a gas/propane furnace which will continue to run during a power outage if you have a generator capable of running the blower on the unit. (The blower takes very little power to run)
Apparently, it’s important to get an inverter-type of generator if you’re wanting to run computers and stuff off of it so that’s what I’ve always used.