Are you really prepared?

They are not a sine wave? Basically created the same way???? Certainly not as smooth and the timing is usually off a bit because it governed by the speed of the engine...mine runs at 60.3 and will vary a bit upon load.

 

I hope these pics show up ...hopefully this will bring some clarity and be useful to someone
A good "pure or true" sine wave inverter will look like the second picture...
A regular generator will look like the first pic...a real sine wave with some distoration
The third pic is of a modified sine wave, there are others and you can see it is very different from the others, some motors and power supplies will not like that one very much....most things couldn't care less about any of the three

 

In the case of our pellet stoves, the need for either a pure sine wave output (or at very least something close to it), it due to the electric motors for the blowers. They start to hum and get hot with a mod. wave....not good.

 

Both my stoves are plugged into UPS for quick blips in the power.
They will keep the stove going for about 30-45 minutes or so with the stove on low. Gave me time to dig out the generator when needed.

Used to have a 10kw portable generator and hard wired transfer switch in the house. Man that thing was a hassle when it had to be dug out when there was two feet of snow on the ground.
No garage.

sold it all and eventually had enough $$ to upgrade to a 17kw standby that runs off NG.

Longest it ran at one time was 30 hours from a blizzard about 3 years ago. Stoves run just fine with it.

 

NICE!!

 

Again it happens! Power out from 6:30am to 8:30pm but this time I was home. I had to work the night shift so I again left with the battery back-up purring. I fired up the generator for a couple of hours so my fridges & freezer stayed cold as I was in the dark for when the power will go back on. Just ranting away as this inconvenience is getting the better of me. So ask yourself, are you really, really prepared?

 

i got a log burner on standby in the garage (no it aint hooked up) along with piping needed to convert from pellet to wood would take me 45 minutes to go from a dead pellet stove to a struck match have already done it once

 

2 pull start gennies at the house. Nice electric start gennie in Pop's barn. 1 old pull start in his. crib shed. Juuuuust in case.
None of them very good wave patterns. Although last time I sat the nice one up for Dad, he was out there chillin' like a villain and watching TV all day. I had to laugh at his description of it.
He has a propane fireplace, as do I. I am fortunate to also have the insert upstairs. We can hold out for awhile.

 

Ahhhh, A PTO GEN SET.

What size and make.

We recently bought a new Mahindra 22 HP 4x4 tractor and having a PTO gen set would be sweet.

 

genny is hooked up and ready to go. ground wire attached with copper pipe pounded all the way down into the ground, exhaust plumbed out the back of the shed. the pipe fittings are very tight over the nipple on the muffler and i could probably run it just fine even w/o the high temp silicone.genny has 100% copper wound heads, thd <5% , and all the electronics run just fine off of it.
the voltmeter stays rock solid, and the stove motors don't hum or complain in any way. the last outage was 4 hours.
i have the extension cord running under the floor up into the living room with the other end coming out through a hole in the pellet bunker hatch near the shed. and all the secondary cords inside are on a power strip and ready to go at a moment's notice.