Amp Nerd https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Blog Off-Grid Sizing Starts with Winter, Not with Panel Count A Smart Panel Manages Power—It Does Not Create More of It Load Shedding Lets a Smaller Generator Behave Like a Bigger One A Generator That Sits All Year Is Not Ready to Run Refueling a Hot Generator Is How Outage Fires Start A Tarp Over a Running Generator Is Not Weather Protection A Smoke Alarm Will Not Warn You About Carbon Monoxide A Sump Pump on a Generator Is Not a Flooding Plan by Itself A Well Pump Is the Load That Decides Your Generator Size A Gas Furnace on Backup Power Can Still Refuse to Run A Portable Power Station Is Not a Small Home Backup Generator A Battery System and a Generator Solve Different Outage Problems A Critical-Loads Panel Often Beats Backing Up the Whole House A Standby Generator Is Only as Reliable as Its Controller Thin Mountain Air Costs a Generator Power It Never Gets Back Two Generators in Parallel Are Not One Machine of Twice the Size Common on a Thermostat Terminal Block Does Not Mean Ground A Refrigerator Does Not Draw Its Nameplate Watts Continuously A Zone Valve That Opens Still Needs Its End Switch to Make Heat Propane Makes a Generator Cleaner but Usually a Little Weaker Adding Accessories to a Control Transformer Has a VA Limit An ERV Is Not a Dehumidifier and Will Not Cool Your House Home A Whole-House Humidifier Should Not Run Without the Blower A Whole-House Fan With the Windows Shut Can Backdraft a Flue An Unbalanced Generator Leaves Half Its Capacity Stranded A Grounding Rod Is Rarely the Answer for a Portable Generator A Generator Cord Is Rated as an Assembly, Not by Its Plug A Generator Inlet Is Not Just an Outdoor Outlet Turned Around Backfeeding an Outlet Can Kill a Lineworker Blocks Away An Interlock Kit Is Not a Loophole Around a Transfer Switch A Transfer Switch Is Not One Product—The Type Changes Everything A Floating-Neutral Generator Is Not a Wiring Defect Surge Watts Are a Brief Allowance, Not a Second Generator Rating A Bath Fan Vented Into the Attic Just Moves the Moisture Problem Winter Reverse on a Ceiling Fan Only Helps If the Ceiling Is High A 240-Volt Generator Outlet Is Not a Bigger 120-Volt Outlet Twisting the Safety Sensor Wires Together Does Not Fix an Opener A Septic Alarm on the Pump Circuit Cannot Warn You It Failed Your Pressure Switch Does Not Set Water Pressure—The Tank Does A Well Pump Control Box Holds the Motor Start Components A Sump Pump That Trips Its GFCI Is Telling You to Replace It Stale Gasoline Fails a Generator Long Before the Tank Runs Dry A Freezer Tripping a GFCI Is Usually Leaking Current, Not Nuisance A Refrigerator on a Shared Kitchen Circuit Is Not Automatically Wrong An Inverter Generator Is Not Simply a Quieter Conventional One Induction Efficiency Does Not Mean a Smaller Kitchen Circuit An Over-Range Microwave Is Not a Countertop Appliance Load Generator Waveform Quality Matters More Than Watts to Electronics