P
(PeteCresswell)
- Jan 1, 1970
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I'm kind of clueless about generators.
Last year I got my dinky little Honda 2kw and 150' of #10 extension cord.
Seems to fit the stated need, which is to keep from losing the contents of a
couple of refrigerators and a freezer - and maybe a little TV time and some
billable hours at the PC.
But after reading a few hundred posts on the subject I'm coming around to the
belief that my first outlay should have been for a cut over box - mainly because
it would allow me to run my gas furnace without hand-wiring it into a generator
and because that #10 extension cord has to enter the house *somewhere* and that
means considerable cold air coming in wherever it does.
If I had gone the cut over box route, and then still opted for the EU2000, would
I be able to attach it - as long as I monitored the power consumption carefully?
What I'm tripping over is the knowledge that some of my stuff (like the furnace
blower?) take 220. Is there some magic in the panel that makes 220 out of
120? or does the stuff coming in have tb 220? Can the EU2000 somehow supply
220?
Last year I got my dinky little Honda 2kw and 150' of #10 extension cord.
Seems to fit the stated need, which is to keep from losing the contents of a
couple of refrigerators and a freezer - and maybe a little TV time and some
billable hours at the PC.
But after reading a few hundred posts on the subject I'm coming around to the
belief that my first outlay should have been for a cut over box - mainly because
it would allow me to run my gas furnace without hand-wiring it into a generator
and because that #10 extension cord has to enter the house *somewhere* and that
means considerable cold air coming in wherever it does.
If I had gone the cut over box route, and then still opted for the EU2000, would
I be able to attach it - as long as I monitored the power consumption carefully?
What I'm tripping over is the knowledge that some of my stuff (like the furnace
blower?) take 220. Is there some magic in the panel that makes 220 out of
120? or does the stuff coming in have tb 220? Can the EU2000 somehow supply
220?