toolsteel
Titanium
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2012
- Location
- NW Wisconsin (BFE)
I live in a rural location (Wisconsin). I usually see more deer on my drive to work than I do cars.
I looked into getting a backup generator for my home but its pretty spendy for the equipment and install. I am ok to wire an outlet, a switch or a light. But by no means would i consider myself qualified to do the neccesary wiring for a backup generator. So i got thinking......my real concern would be heat during the winter in the event of a power outage. Our furnace is propane....500 gal tank in the yard. I saw a guy online (oh oh) who installed an outlet (single receptacle dedicated line) and instead of hardwiring the furnace he plugs it in. He claimed in case of an outage he can simply run an extension cord a short distance to a generator outside to run the blower motor on his furnace. Looked legit to me and seemed like a good back up plan.
My concern (maybe there are other concerns i am not thinking of)is the "quality" of the electricity coming from the generator ???? Is there a possibility that it would somehow screw up my furnace????
Not looking at this as some sort of off grid thing.....just an emergency plan if things went sideways with the electric service when its -30F.
Any of you done similar?
Thoughts?
I looked into getting a backup generator for my home but its pretty spendy for the equipment and install. I am ok to wire an outlet, a switch or a light. But by no means would i consider myself qualified to do the neccesary wiring for a backup generator. So i got thinking......my real concern would be heat during the winter in the event of a power outage. Our furnace is propane....500 gal tank in the yard. I saw a guy online (oh oh) who installed an outlet (single receptacle dedicated line) and instead of hardwiring the furnace he plugs it in. He claimed in case of an outage he can simply run an extension cord a short distance to a generator outside to run the blower motor on his furnace. Looked legit to me and seemed like a good back up plan.
My concern (maybe there are other concerns i am not thinking of)is the "quality" of the electricity coming from the generator ???? Is there a possibility that it would somehow screw up my furnace????
Not looking at this as some sort of off grid thing.....just an emergency plan if things went sideways with the electric service when its -30F.
Any of you done similar?
Thoughts?