I too am glad the animals did not suffer!
One point of generators are most proportional t-stats will fail if they are not used with pure seine wave power. The only generator I know has a pure output is Honda. All the others ( to the best of my knowledge) have modified waves that may cause problems.
On offs are fine with modified however.
http://www.spyderrobotics.com/home/support_ups.html
Yes the link is speaking of ups but it is true of generators as well.
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