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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3862889" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>You'd be surprised at what you can run on a smaller generator. One of my neighbor's to my land in SE OK built a really nice 3 bedroom cabin. He uses wood heat and has a RV or dorm sized refrigerator in it. He runs totally LED lighting to include his quite large deck that overlooks his pond, he has a bunch of strip lighting out there plus more strip lighting outside around the cabin because when it's dark in those mountains, it's really dark! He runs it all on a Honda 1000i. I was kinda shocked at that but it's handles it fine.</p><p></p><p>I have a Honda 1000i too and it had no issues running my central heat fan and NG furnace during the outage during the last ice storm that knocked out power for about 9 days. I ran my big one (5500W Coleman) for my freezer and fridge during the day and shut it down at night but that little honda ran pretty much 24/7 during that period at basically an idle on "eco mode". You could barely hear it cycle when the heat kicked on.</p><p></p><p>My mom has a 14k Generac whole house system and it will run the whole house. Central AC, elec range and separate electric oven plus everything else. With it's smart switch, It's like power doesn't even go out. You might take a hard look at your load demand, with LED lighting and all newer modern appliances the current draw is a lot less than we used to need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3862889, member: 3099"] You'd be surprised at what you can run on a smaller generator. One of my neighbor's to my land in SE OK built a really nice 3 bedroom cabin. He uses wood heat and has a RV or dorm sized refrigerator in it. He runs totally LED lighting to include his quite large deck that overlooks his pond, he has a bunch of strip lighting out there plus more strip lighting outside around the cabin because when it's dark in those mountains, it's really dark! He runs it all on a Honda 1000i. I was kinda shocked at that but it's handles it fine. I have a Honda 1000i too and it had no issues running my central heat fan and NG furnace during the outage during the last ice storm that knocked out power for about 9 days. I ran my big one (5500W Coleman) for my freezer and fridge during the day and shut it down at night but that little honda ran pretty much 24/7 during that period at basically an idle on "eco mode". You could barely hear it cycle when the heat kicked on. My mom has a 14k Generac whole house system and it will run the whole house. Central AC, elec range and separate electric oven plus everything else. With it's smart switch, It's like power doesn't even go out. You might take a hard look at your load demand, with LED lighting and all newer modern appliances the current draw is a lot less than we used to need. [/QUOTE]
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