Small Portable Generator Emergency Power Backup - Pirate Lifestyle TV ™ Quickie 046

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Today's quickie topic is about small electric generators and you making your own electricity.

A small electric generator makes a great part-time source of electricity.

Backup generators can be portable or stationary and large or small. They run on a variety of fuels.

We have a Honda EU2000i generator and we can highly recommend these generators. They use inverter technology, they produce cleaner voltage electricity, and the engines idle down during light load conditions. They are very quiet, easy to care for, easy to move around, and sip fuel.

I fabricated this adapter so we can connect the generator to our 30 amp marine connector. Let's fire this thing up.

OK, now our sailboat is running 100 percent on generator power, the lights, refrigerator, battery charger, air conditioner, water heater, everything. Yes, we must be careful with our load management. But it does work.

The biggest advantage of portable generators like this one is, well, they're portable. In my opinion, purchasing one of the cheap gasoline generators is a waste of time and money. Sure, they are low priced units but they have many negative features, like high fuel use and low quality.

This generator speeds up and slows down as necessary.

When we were using this generator as our only source of electricity we burned approximately 5 gallons of gasoline each week. We would run the generator for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening, running on battery power the rest of the time.

With a little planning, thinking about how much electricity you might need, what you actually need to operate, I know you can find a generator that fits your needs.

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[Toddyah]

So you say you ran it a couple hours twice a day and the rest of the time you got power from batteries batteries.How does this generator charge the batteries ? Is it like just an average car battery charger powered by the generator? Then how many batteries do you charge and are they wired in series or parallel and what kind of inverter do you use ?Thanks a bunch !Anyone feel free to tell me thanks!

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@Toddyah Ahoy. All great questions. It would take a book to answer in detail. Watch my other two related videos for more info. I can't post links here, these are the titles.

Off Grid Self Sufficient Living Make Your Own Electricity - Pirate Lifestyle TV ™ Quickie 032

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A quality multi-stage charger is more complicated than a car charger. We have 3 big batteries.

[tomperanteau]

As usual I enjoyed your presentation. Glad to hear your assessment of the Honda, and we may have to add that one to our list of on board necessities.

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@tomperanteau Aye Tom. After hurricane Katrina, the little 2000 Honda was our only source of electricity for 11 months. It even runs a small window AC, 5500 btu.

[WatchToddPattison]

Aye, that would be a handy thing to bring along camping too ;-)

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@WatchToddPattison Abso-frickin'-lutely! They are perfect for camping. With a heavy duty long extension cord you wouldn't even know it was running.

[Toddyah]

@PirateLifestyleTV YaaaR! Thanks a bunch me matey!:)Ya i had a lot there,I'l check it out !:)take care!

[erpie2121]

As always i enjoyed watching your video, great tip! Thanks so much!