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This was the worst in 19 years. I can deal with it but my wife was going ballistic especially since she is working full time from home. Its worth 5k to please the missus. Thanks.
Five thousand bucks is way too much.
A 2200 SF home with the typical 200 amp service is well served by a 3500 to 4000 watt rig, but if you have natural gas I urge you to pick a nat gas unit so that you don't have to go looking for fuel.
No, you will not be able to service ALL your electrical outlets but the fridge, computers, lights and what not will be okay.
Maybe even the air conditioning if you have a small central unit or window AC.
Be sure to install some Tripp-Lite POWER CONDITIONING units on every outlet served by the gennie.
Your expensive electronics don't do well with dirty power or square wave...they last longer on clean sine wave output and that's what a power conditioner does.
If you currently have battery uninterruptible power supplies, they already have power conditioning built in, even if the batteries no longer work.
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