HW7500E Honeywell Generator: Being Prepared For Electric Power Outages. Part 1 of 2

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Response 1 from Honeywell Generators:

It is always beneficial to select a generator that has an output a little higher than the total watts you intend to use; therefore, if you are interested in running 4000 watts of lights, we would suggest purchasing a 5500 Rated Watt generator or higher.

Generators are designed to operate at a 50% duty cycle, meaning you cannot operate a generator 24/7. You should run the generator for 4-6 hrs and then have a shutdown time equal to the runtime (4-6 hrs).

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Response 2 from Honeywell Generators:

You must also follow the maintenance schedule outlined in the owner’s manual (oil changes, filter changes every 50 hours). Lastly, engines on generators have a livelihood of about 1000 hours depending on application….so you need to account for that….portable generators are not designed to be a permanent replacement for your power supplied by the power company, they are intended for intermittent emergency power output.

[kingsblendstrain]

If i want to power 4000 watts of lights would this work?? And can this thing run every single day???

[jpizfulful]

@kingsblendstrain Depends, do you have a tri flow conversion kit to run on natural gas? Do you have 5 billion gallons of gasoline? you need to find the fuel to decide.