A couple of hours is all fun and games but try the 5, 6, 7 day outages....
When you get into longer outages you have the option of running things for a time, get your refrigerator accesses out of the way, wait for the refrigerator to cycle off - then shutting down the genny for an hour or two, restarting, rinse and repeat.
“The last outgage for me lasted 3 days. How much fuel would that huge genset use running for 72 hours? 25 gallons, 30 gallons, 40 gallons? That is some serious jack.
A couple of hours is all fun and games but try the 5, 6, 7 day outages....”
Your right about that.I lost power for a week when we had a Dericho rip through here and destroyed all of the trees knocking down our major power lines
I had No water,No food,since the food in the Refer was spoiled and even if we wanted to cook we had No microwave or electric range.We were basically screwed.
I tried to get a reimbursement for the food loss from the insurance company, but they only provide half coverage, so it wasn’t worth it.
Lessons like that are what got me into buying that Generac.As I said we have power failures here often because the POWER Utilities don’t want to trim the trees overhanging these power lines.
I calculated that my generator could run 5 days if needed on my tanks 500 gallons.fortunately I haven’t needed to run it that long.