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

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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.

That's what I would figure too. It's still an interesting device.


I thought about doing what the OP was originally looking at but decided I didn't want to leave the wife to deal with it if I'm stuck at work. In the end I went big and got a 22kw Generac whole home natural gas generator. That way if the power goes out and I'm away the wife doesn't have to do a thing. I'm very happy with my choice and for some reason my neighborhood loses power a few times a year and we only know because the oven clock will be wrong. It is a very nice luxury to have.