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Ha! The first time we had a big power outage was in the 'snowpocalypse' of 2009 Nothing without tracks or feet moved on our road for three days after that and we had a five-day outage. It was figure it out or freeze. She's motivated. She's also smarter than the average bear, which helps a...

Here you go. Note (again) that this is very customized to my environment, warts and all. My generator lives outside on the parking pad, hence the batteries in the garage on the charger, the jumper cables, etc. There's also some personal preference here - I don't like my batteries sitting on a...

I did actually get the second draft finished and printed (it's in the manuals box in the kitchen, where the wife expects to find it). I forgot to post it here, of course. It's sitting on my work laptop and I'll see if I can get it posted here shortly.

I'll get that edit done and put it up. It's a word docx just for ease of layout.

My solution to the user unfriendliness was to write a customized 'starting the generator' procedure for my wife to follow. I made her read through it and go through all the steps last month on a cold morning. I have some edits (mostly more graphics) to make to the document for clarity, but it...