Old Navy
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Great looking setup and some good engineering involved also.I also lived in hurricane country once. So solar and wind was out of the question. I would assume tornado country would be the same thing.
I built a solid concrete bomb proof gen room and put in the smallest genset I could use to power my entire house. It had a 5 ton cental a/c and I installed a giant quick start capacitor in it so my puny 7.5kw Northern Lights - Kubota could start it. My system was fully manual and it sipped fuel. Can't remember the rate but it was so low it was not an issue. I was able to keep all my treated fuel in 5 gal plastic cans so I could rotate them by using in my diesel vehicle. It worked great and was a lifetime system. The cheap part of the project was the cost of the generator. If I had to do it again out of hurricane zone I would still go diesel. And of course always have a Honda 2000 for backup. You can back feed it into your house and run everything selectively. Thats what I do now. View attachment 1634776View attachment 1634777View attachment 1634778