Originally Posted By: wileycoyote
i've always valued your comments.


I try to only post when I'm sober laugh.

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i wasn't including medicine refrigeration in my question, that's a necessity and a given. and i suspect a tiny propane RV frig (that uses a 1/2 gallon fuel per day) could handle that problem.


That would be a kick-ass backup for that sort of thing.

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and like everyone here, i too have a generator (a small honda eu2000i) for emergency back-up that would do perfectly for running little things a sump pump, lights and battery charging. on the ECO mode it can run 16 hours on a gallon.


My CERT has an EU2000i, and for a small generator it is the cat's meow. It's an inverter-based generator so it provides very clean power for electronics. Be aware, though, that one sump pump is likely all it can handle. Sump pumps have very large startup loads.

I have two sump pumps, and I didn't have $900+ to spend on this. Cabela's had a sale on a 3500W running/4000W startup load generator, and I got that. I have it running now to break it in as per the manual, and so far so good. Supposedly it will run for 12 hours at 50% load on 4 gallons of gas.

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but its the need for huge generators that i question, the ones that suck nearly a gallon a hour as suggested above. that just seems a bit out of balance to keep a box cold. and at today's fuel prices, that $100 in fuel per day.

i'm not slamming anyone here, just suggesting: less is more.


Makes sense.