[at-l] Storm's a'comin

[Jim Bullard]

The price depends on the wattage it puts out. They will try to sell you the
biggest unit which will let you run every electric doohickey in your house
simultaneously but what I'm looking at is one that will put out enough juice
to run my water pump fridge and pellet stove. I can deal with
candles/Coleman lanterns for light. I can eat cold food or microwave stuff.
Home Depot has 8000 watt units for as little as $2K and they tell me
installation is about $1200.

Jim Bullard
http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Ken Bennett <bennett.ken at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  I could probably get by with a portable generator to run the stove but
>> when you're getting clobbered like Art is a unit that cuts in automatically
>> when the power goes out looks like a real good option.
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> We tend to get ice rather than snow, and our house is at the far end of the
> neighborhood, and one of the last to get the power back on in a major
> outage. We've had several 3-5 day power outages in the last few years. I've
> looked at a permanent natural-gas powered generator; it fires up as soon as
> the power goes out, and can run the entire house. They weren't as expensive
> as I expected (less than $10K IIRC), but it was more than I had.
>
> That said, living in a cold snap without any power for more than a day or
> so gets old pretty quickly.
>
> --Ken
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