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Carl, glad to see you could make it to this little party we are having. You left out one important thing on your example wiring, you need a way to also transfer power of the vital loads to your second larger generator in case the small one dies. It could be rather embarrassing to have TV...

Spedmonn, as you and I know, paralleling is possible, however the cost of safe paralelling gear is going to greatly exceed the cost of any home standby generrator. Even the relatively small military units that support paralleling are often used in such a way as to provide continuous power and...

I am all for the idea of having at least 2 generators, and prefereably ones that run on multiple types of fuel. As a practical matter people using generators (emergency backup ones or not) fall into 2 catagories, those able and willing to do manual load management and those that are not. The...

As I am sure you know a lot depends on the quality of the individual generator, I can tell you a MEP-701a 3kw (built by Onan by the way) has no problem starting and running a standard side by side refrigerator, a mid side chest freezer along with a 6500 btu and a 11,000 btu air conditioner...

There are a lot of generalizations going on here, wet stacking is a real issue with all diesel engines, howver just how big of an issues depends on a number of factors of the individual engine design. Things like is it air cooled or water cooled, turbo charged, or not, as well as direct or...

I can understand both sides of this debate, for my house I have a 3kw MEP-701a (this is of course a under rated output, even by conservitive numbers it is good for 3.6KW 24x7 and a lot more at surge, post rebuild testing requires running at 200% for 10 minutes). This will run the refrigerator...

Unless you have a missile system you need to power most 400hz units are useless on the civilain market. Ike *the only exception is purely reistive loads that don't care about frequency, I have read they are sometimes used in the mining industry for lighting, etc.