Power your house in a power outage the cheapest, easiest way.

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What happens if you don't have enough power to run something? Say you're washing clothes and the AC tries to cut on. What happens if there is not enough juice to run both?

I think you would have to turn off the breakers in your panel so that only a few circuits were active.

Also I was without power for four days in July a few years back. While I had a 6500W generator, its job was to run the refrigerator and a large chest freezer, the microwave occasionally, plus some smaller appliances like box fans and a cell phone charger. I just got some long heavy-duty extension cords, cost under $100 for four. Dirty clothes got washed and rinsed in the bathtub and dried on a clothesline in the backyard sun.