SheepOfBlue

OK so I will be in the market this spring and am wondering what is enough. My main objective is tire warmers and while it may get other use power at home is uber reliable with no weather that is to cold to do without climate control.

So how many watts? Anyone got one that wishes they had more?

abtech

I would imagine 65 KW ought to handle it.

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luvtolean

Warmers are give or take 1.5 kW, which is why the Honda 2000 are so popular. They'll run a laptop, fan and warmers just fine.

If you want to run stuff at home, look up your refrigerators and stuff.

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Leelover

You need one like abtech's!

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I have a 5500 watt. It powers a fridge, 1800 btu wall A/C unit and a 220 volt well pump. Plus a lamp or 2 and a TV. Barely.
I will eventually get a bigger one for home power, quieter too!

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luvtolean

That's what I have (5500W contractor's special). It will do two fridges, my total fishtank system, and a light. Lousy power conditioning though, something to watch if you want to hook sensitive electronics to it. It burns ~10 gals a day when running non-stop.

Noisy sumbitch...but extremely handy.

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KF810

I was asking this myself the other day....damn voices. Anyway, I was looking at tire warmers on e-bay, and it seems most of them run on average about 700 watts and lower. I managed to get a 1000w generator at Meijer on black Friday for $100! Good enough for me!

TornadoB8

Anyone heard of these? Home

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SomeStrangeGuy

This is what I'm getting...didn't even know Onan made a portable!

Costco Cummins Onan HomeSite™ 6500 Portable Generator $200 Off Reflected in Price

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smoothrideronli

Seems like a lot dont you think.

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SheepOfBlue

It was REAL hard resisting getting the maximum power. But I got a generator.

The Honda and Yamaha 3000 were tempting but I think this will get me going, if not I can link two of them for 4000

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abtech

Good luck floating the neutral between two units . . .

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Not at all. I'll bet those tire warmers will work just fine with a 65KW source . . .

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It's really cute. Did you get the Hello Kitty doll with that?

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SheepOfBlue

Yep and passenger sheep kicked kitty butt then BBQed HK.

They make a kit to join two 2000i's together

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bwhip

Love my Honda 2000. Good choice.

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sheeeze . . .

More POWER!!!! arr arr arr

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SheepOfBlue

For once I resisted

Thanks BWhip, I think I will really like it.

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ND4SPD

Cute sheep...your generator is powered by rubbing the wool over the plastic case and generating static electricity?

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RedRider

Excellent choice Sheep.

Revvv

I have a 5000 watt portable. I have had the thing for about 10 years now and it still runs great.

My Father-in-Law gave it to me. It says it's a Coleman, but it has a noisy Briggs and Stratton engine.

5000 watts has never let me down. I have no idea what it would power in the home though. Under my rear deck resides a HUGE Kohler similar to Abtech's.

As long as I can get diesel and gasoline I can keep power independantly of any power company.

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eyauch

Are all generators designed to be used outside? I am looking to pick something up that will serve as back up for my sump pump. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 amps I think? Than someday if I decide to try tire warmers (probably won't).

SheepOfBlue

They are gas powered so yep However are they weather resistant... Mine would be so-so but for use in the rain I would want a cover of some sort over it to deflect rain from the gas cap vent.

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DEPO

How much power..... "1.21 jiga-watts!"


"What's a Jiga-Watt?".... name the movie

In the Carny days we dealt with 1200 KW generators with 12 cylinder Cat Diesels.

I have a 6000 watt generator, that my friend Hammer helped me get home for 200 bucks... from a CCS event!

I had a power outage, What I did is I made a Jumper from the 220 out of the generator to the Air-Conditioning Throw-Out, and turned off the main at the breaker box.

Drove a 15 foot Copper Grounding Rod in the ground next to the air unit, and ran it by my air unit.

Just watched the other houses from time to time to see when their light went back on.

I had to balance the load in the breaker box a little better then what was there. But it works well.

Runs everything, as long as we are careful of how many lights and etc...

Couple times it got a little hard running when we had the freezer cycling, the 220 well pump running, and a TV on.

But it works well... about 6-7 hours with us running that big of a load..... it went like that for almost 48 hours.

Just make sure... which I did, but one of my buddies did not.

Unhook everything from the generator, put the throw back in on the air handler, then turn on the main at the box.

Let's just say the friend down the street did not... He had a little bit of a show.

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I bought the 2600. Shipping was $75 bucks. It's pretty quiet too considering that it's not a Honda*.

*Also half the price.

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