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Large enough generator?
September 14th, 2011
Our power went out due to wind damage from hurricane Ike, in Pennsylvania. We have not had power for 4 days now, but luckily I was able to get a generator and have saved our fridge and freezer. My question is what can I power with this generator. It is a 5000 watt generator, and I was told that this should be able to power the whole house. Only thing is, I have a lot to run in my house. We have well water, heat with an electric heat pump, which has electric back up heat, and also an electric hot water heater. The well pump has a double pole 20 amp breaker, hot water double pole 30 amp breaker, heat pump double pole 25 amp, and furnace double pole 60 amp and double pole 30 amp. Will the 5000 watt generator be able to power any one of these at a given time? I know I am SOL for using them all at once, but switching between them would not be a big deal to me. Also, I know that I should not back feed into my house, and plan on getting a manual transfer switch to do the job. I just need to know if I need to get a bigger generator before I start looking at transfer switches. Thanks for the help.
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Would you considere a fairly simple Kit home that two people could assemble in a weekend or two for a getaway?
June 17th, 2011
home. or maybe for a guest house or something. If it was fairly inexpensive. This is something that could be delivered right to your property in a bundle on a truck, pre cut with all nesseary hardware, etc. The finished home could be equiped for solar,wind power,etc. stand alone type of dwelling. Is this appealing to anyone?
Well, evidently, you are asuming me to be a moron. I too, have construction experience, as well as altenative energy experience, and some pretty good ideas of my own using already available technology. I am not going to go into a lot of detail about this stuff, tho. Yes, there would need to be some property preperation done before assembly, this is a given for any type of dwelling. I am trying to create an easy, not too expensive alternative that the average person could manage. And have a little fun doing. Of course, some research would have to be done concerning codes in different states. In this time of dwindeling employment, I am trying to create a job for myself. I have already built a few proptypes, and we have worked out a lot of the difficultys.
Size wise, this is meant to be a comfortable temporary or permanent dwelling for 1 or 2 persons, with a garage/workshop area included in its small footprint,as well as some deck area
