 Hi my name is Chris Jacobs, I'm the creator of Vallejo Historic Home Support and in this short little video series we've been talking about the kinds of backup power systems you might want to have for your house of PG&E was to take your power out for example as they'll probably do every year moving forward. We've talked so far about a small little power station, you know good for charging your cell phones, we've talked about small power inverters you can hook to your car and really just good for charging power stations. We've talked about slightly larger power inverters these can be hooked to deep cycle batteries usually a battery pack. The last piece I'm going to talk about and people will ask about solar and I think that's a bit beyond this discussion for backup power that's actually power for your house right. But the last thing we're going to talk about is we're going to talk about generators. I don't have an example here today because I actually loaned my generator out and somebody didn't bring it back but I used to own the 1000 watt Honda EU generator and the EU series is a it's remarkable it's a remarkable series it's got an ultra quiet it's already ultra quiet but it's got an even more quiet throttle down option you can do and so the smaller versions of these and they're going to be running somewhere in the neighborhood of about 800 bucks you know they go up all the way to the commercial size but for a house maybe 2500 watts is really I mean you could literally plug that into your power main and run your whole house you get an electrician they put a switch where you go flip over to generator power and you plug that thing in turn it on and it just runs your entire home just like just like your refrigerator is going your freezer is going all your lights is going all of your electronics is going I mean that's enough for your entire house something like that's going to run you right around the range of like $2000 so when I first found these generators this was maybe in 2001 and I was walking up to a guy on a street corner in Los Angeles he was selling stuff on a table like this and you know on the street it's not a busy busy street but I was like I kind of looked around like oh where's your where's your extension cord he says no no I've got a generator and he pulls this up I was standing two feet from the generator I didn't hear the generator that's how quiet it is later I lived in the woods and I actually had one of these generators living in the woods and yeah if you're sitting right next to it in the woods where it's super quiet you can hear it but inside my cabin 15 feet away it just blended right in with the crickets I mean I didn't even you didn't even know it was on it was unbelievable so the thing too that I want to say about these these power systems or that with generators is that all of this stuff to some level goes together I mean when people for example live out in the country and they they don't have city power and they have solar systems they actually own a generator and the reason they do it is the solar batteries or the solar cells can't charge the battery quite as well as a generator can and it's a really good idea maybe once a week to turn that generator on and deeply deeply charge those batteries right there would be no reason to why you might also want to have something like this you know even if you own a generator you might want something like this just for for convenience or for ease so okay just as a quick review the EU generator series totally awesome totally quiet probably the absolutely the most expensive option here but people want to do it it's gasoline generators they run on oil and you know like a small little motor like any other small engine you have in your house we today in this series we covered a stand-up stand by power like a little backup power we covered two different sizes of inverters how they're wired and we covered the backup generators one last word on generators much less expensive generators are available at stores these are mostly construction style these things are super super loud and you can check out the decibel ratings for any generator tell you how obnoxiously loud they get okay my name is Chris Jacobson thank you for joining the series please check out the links if you need more information feel free to contact me if you have any questions