Well, the question becomes how much you're willing to lower your standard of living. A few years ago we survived with a 4k gasoline unit for almost a week. That meant rotating loads, cutting off about everything not absolutely necessary to survival. Water, heat, and refrigeration come to mind. We have animals, and water is an absolute necessity, but it doesn't have to run continuously. Same with heat and refrigeration, can run a couple loads at a time, turn off others. Do you really have to run full house AC, or could you get by without it in a pinch? Takes a bit of work, but can get by with far smaller (read cheaper) unit. Now have a 4k and a 5K unit that I picked up fairly cheap. Yes, they're B&S lawn mower grade units, but I don't expect to wear them out in my lifetime. Propane or natural gas would be nice, and probably cheaper to run, but again, initial costs are far higher. Water cooled unit would be nice, but again far more expensive. Guess it boils down to how much you are willing to spend, how much you can cut back on electrical demand, how many hours per year you are actually going to need auxillary power. By the way, no matter what you do, home grown electricity is going to be far more expensive than commercial power. Look at a home generator as a stop-gap measure until commercial power is restored. And yes, having a generator has saved my bacon several times - literally.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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