ericm979
Super Member
- Joined
- Nov 25, 2016
- Messages
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- Location
- Santa Cruz Mountains CA, Southern OR
- Tractor
- Branson 3725H Deere 5105
I have been thinking about getting something that would let me shutdown the whole house generator at night when we do not need it running. We went through a lot of propane this spring when we had no power for 17 days. Was looking at the Honda but I leaning more towards the Bluetti or similar now.
We had a lot of outages in California. We had a UPS for the wifi equipment and a small Jackery battery to run a light. We could shut the generator off for a couple hours during the day and again in the evening. At night everything's off.
This worked great until we got a new fridge a couple years ago. It had less cooling capacity than the 20 year old one it replaced. Each day it would work all day to cool down but would not get all the way. Each day it would end up a degree or two warmer. After a week it would be well off what it was supposed to cool to. Once I figured this out I ran the generator longer just to help the fridge out.