I've had a lot of small power outages recently and I'm worried about a larger one. In case of an outage, I'd like to power my refrigerator, a radio, and some lights. I have an inverter. Now I've been thinking about simply buying a couple of car batteries from a hardware store (35 Ah) and…
How do you secure an emergency power generator? Short circuit… In this example a 10KW generator
For a 10kw 3 phase generator: What happens if I connect a load to only one phase conductor? How many kW will I get out of that? And the most important question: does it damage the generator? What happens if I use 2 outer conductors?
About a year ago I bought a generator, but I've never used it. I got some oil and stored gasoline and preservative additive in a jerrycan. The original idea was to only fill it and put it into operation when there was another long power outage (every two years for us). The manual stated that…