For Christ’s sake yall!!!!
12500 Watson is 10amps at 125 volts ac.
That doesn’t power much in today’s homes.
It is 100 amps at 12 volts dc..DC... which can power quite a bit.
I have a 9.5 kw genset. It reliably powers a fridge, freezer, TV, internet router, and a lamp or two.
Whups. That’s 100 amps. It’ll run a bit, but not every thing at once....
You get less output on propane
It would likely power a lot more than that. I’ve successfully powered a lot more with significantly less generator than yours.
We originally sized at 20 kW for 3,400 sq foot house. Then Briggs discontinued the 20 kW and upped it to 26 kW for the same price. We’ve got LOTS of power! We didn’t want the oven going out when we are cooking Christmas dinner.
The electrician did all the sizing calcs (which aren’t hard to do). But you need to be aware of high inrush current when devices start which complicates the design a bit. If you lost power with a lot of house loads on (clothes dryer, AC, oven), you won’t just be able to throw the generator on. You have to disconnect some of those loads and then sequence them back on. The “load shed” modules we bought do that automatically for us.
12500/220 = 56 amps!!! That is a lot!!!
“12500 Watson is 10amps at 125 volts ac.”
You’re off by an order of magnitude - it’s 100 amps!
That generator will run the whole house unless you turn on every electrical appliance at the same time.
You’re way underutilizing your 9500 Gen. Check out how many watts each one of the things you mentioned use.
Better check your math 12,500 W is not 10 amps @120V
You’re only off by an order of magnitude.
(That’s a factor of ten. Also known as 10^1)
It is actually 100 Amps @ 120 VAC. I think you dropped a zero somewhere. In reality, it is more likely 50 Amps @ 240 VAC.
We have a generator this size for our 4000 sq. ft. house in rural Oregon, and it is quite enough for us.
We have to recognize that the generator is to alleviate an emergency situation, not to make us independent from the power grid.
It is more than enough to run our refrigerator, freezer, lights, garage door openers, internet, TV, microwave, computers and all kinds of small appliances. What represents a large load and probably should be postponed until power is restored is the electric oven and the clothes drier. We have a heat pump and the generator is too small to run that, but we can easily make do with one or two space heaters and a propane fireplace. We have a gas cooktop so there is no danger of starvation, but you can probably run an electric cooktop if that is what you have. Try not to use all the burners at once.
As soon as the generator comes on, move at least one car out of the garage -- you do not want to be trapped if something goes wrong.
Powers more than that! Just try to make sure that when the chips are down and you are on the portable, to try stagger power usage. Remember, that most likely, your stove runs on propane as well. So read the manual and understand how to convert your stove to LP. It’s easy.