If the newer Harmans shut down, that is a good...
It's an 8000 watt generator, with I assume some mass to the rotating components. It might not be providing clean power, but I'm pretty sure the term "modified sine wave" wouldn't apply. I could be wrong, of course.
Same here with my 5500w gen. Though it seems to run everything else just fine I won't try it with the stove.. For one thing the stove is on a circuit that I don't have powered through my gen. No, I just let the stove go out and the oil heat come on rather than risk a $300 board. My transfer switch is wired that way so I just run with that.
I can run the hardwired room my stove is in but like you,
i keep threatening to swap out my transfer switch for one with more circuits. It only has 6 because we needed it in a hurry and that's what was available. The gen would have no trouble with 10 since the added circuits would all be low draw. The heavy stuff is already on board and that barely runs the meters up. But hey we have some lights, all the fridges, the freezer, work stations in two kitchens and heat and hot water. So how much does one really need beyond that ? We left the second floor dark. Well maybe some day.
I have a 10 circuit transfer switch..
We needed the gen fairly quickly because at the time my elderly ( 90) father in law was in our apartment we rent out. My wife had full care of him and he had to have heat which is provided by the main houses oil boiler. The only transfer switch available locally was a six circuit. I wish I had at least 8 but 10 would be perfect. So we run heat and hot water, two refrigerators and a chest freezer. Two kitchen work stations. A couple of light circuits on our side and one over there. Downstairs bath with outlet. So that gets us most anything we really need and we use oil lamps otherwise. The ranges are gas. So we can cook, take a bath or shower, shave, use the bathroom, nothing thaws out and we all have heat. Life is good in a power outage !
yes it is...
And me after my oldest daughter. Last year their house was out for over a week, they had to move out when it got down to 36 deg inside. But ya know when you're trying to get kids through college etc it's tough to justify something that sits 98% of the time and isn't all that cheap to get into. And it's an engine to maintain etc etc..
That is a factor yes. But I still don't trust it and my gen is very stable running and surges don't flux the output hardly at all. electronic voltage regulators work wonders. This leads me to another thought, if the gens own electronics works on the gen why not a harman board ?
