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@trackboy We don't even get that. Our power goes out, and my dad only hooks the generator up for the refrigerator. When we lost power for 15 days, the internet never went down. So like the 12th day he finally hooks up the house to the generator for an hour, just so we could get online to check our emails. It was a real pain in the butt.

@twiigss how come he did not hook the whole house through the generator??????? it is it like a really small camping generator??? 😺

@trackboy It's one of those ones that is smaller, runs on gasoline. Not sure why he never hooks it up to the whole house though.

@twiigss you have to wire up an outlet to the breaker box to feed through a dual breaker to feed both Phaze A and Phaze B from the generator. you also have to turn the main breaker off when you switch on the generator breaker. you're switching your house over to single-phase 120 volts when you do that. you put an outlet on the side of the house usually a 30 amp outlet. then a 10 gauge cable with the plug for the house outlet on one end and a plug for the 30 amp 120-volt full power outlet on the generator on the other end. how many watts is the generator rated for? how many amps? is it a 120 volt-only generator or does it also put out 240 volts?? 😺

@trackboy Sorry trackboy, it's my dads house, and I'm unfamiliar with anything to do with the generator and the fuse box. I know how to reset a tripped fuse, but things with wiring and amps and watts, I don't have those answers.

@twiigss the rating should be on the generator and also in the owner's manual for the generator. Do you pet the generator and say nice generator when it is powering the fridge?? 😺

@trackboy 🤭 Nah. As I said, it's my dads house. The whole generator thing that's something he does. It's kind of like, I'm not allowed to know. For example, there was a yellow jacket nest above my bed. Several years ago I smoked in here and the ceiling was so yellow, you could see the boards.

So one day I decided to try and clean the ceiling. Well my hand went right through the ceiling above my bed, (didn't know why at the time) surprised that I didn't hit the nest or the wasps, but I put a piece of cardboard over it. (the yellow jackets ate away at the drywall) Anyway, a year goes by, nothing is done. So I was talking to a guy at work who said he does drywall. Told my dad about all that and my dad says, who is it? Told him older gentleman I work with has 10 years drywall experience and would help me fix this hole.

My dad says, nahhh, I really shouldn't be putting fixing it off. So we take down the cardboard and wasp central is now in my room. Anyway, we got the hole fixed with new piece of drywall in the ceiling and plaster on top. Then my whole room I repainted, we got new plug outlets, I got a new ceiling fan, new carpet, so it looks really, really nice in here now. I bought all paint, the fan and the carpet. And my dad helped with the outlets and some of the painting around the window frames and he painted the ceiling, and he installed the new fan.

So because it's his house, I can't really do much if something breaks, he's got to know about it, and then it's up to him to fix it, because he doesn't want anyone else in here doing it. Even if I paid $500 for a contractor to come in and put new windows in my room, nope, he has to buy the windows and put them in himself.

@twiigss why is the generator top-secret??? should be a full-power outlet, it is round and will have the nema number and voltage, and current rating of the outlet. is it a NEMA L5-30 outlet??? wow was a wasps nest!! happy to have your room all fixed up?? should be a watt rating on the generator. 😺