I've seen and heard the smaller Honda generators, the ones I've heard are very very quiet, I don't know if they are all that way. We didn't think to look at them when we bought one I guess.
I got hubby to get us one a few years back for hurricane season, he chuckled at the time and said we were just spending money for something we will seldom use. He said I'm not even putting oil in it at the time.
It's a 7500 watt Generac with 13500 surge. Ok, first year a hurricane hit. Our electric in this little corner of Texas comes from Entergy in Louisiana, used to be called Gulf States and they had major issues, so we used it almost a week.
After that hubby wired it into a panel in the well house and ran it back to the main panel. I have directions we typed up on how I turn off the main and use this, it has sure been wonderful to have the last few years. Since he is gone all the time I have power if I need it and don't have to call someone. But the guy behind me will help and his son put up the boards in our windows before the last one, we have floor to ceiling windows in the living room. I'm about ready to fill up my 50 to 70 gallon cans of gas again for the summer. The generator will run everything but my central AC and the dryer. It would run the old dryer but the new front loader has to much electronics, but that's ok, I can hang clothes out for a few days, no big deal. But we have lights, fridge, freezer, washer. My tenant rigs us up for TV so we know what is going on. DD and I can use fans and we don't mind. Being able to take hot showers and having food with propane is priceless beleive me.
We talked about a whole house system that would kick over automatically, priced them and all, but the problem is it would cost a fortune to run one of those for a couple of weeks. Also hubby said to run all our circuits would take a huge one that they are limited to something like 5. Soooo, it sounds like this will be the one we use. Tenant also hooks up his fridge and TV too.
