Power Failure and Refrigerator

[Jack Straw]

Back before I bought the generators I had our fridge items buried in a snow bank for a week. I like just pulling the rope and plugging in the cord a lot better. Especially in the summer. We had two extended outages this summer.

In fact when we lose power for days this winter, we always do lately, I am gonna devote the little 2 stroke genny to the fridge and run it around the clock. Thing just sips gas and my neighbor's generator is so loud they will never hear it and they run the thing all day and night to power their propane central heat.

Will the small 2 stroke HF genny run a fridge?

 

[HDRock]

Put freezer stuff in coolers outside, to keep animals out



Weather for Sand Lake, NY

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Heavy Snow Wind: N at 10 mph Humidity: 93% ​

 

[nate379]

Now that you mention containers for ice, our fridge has an icemaker. I had to dump out the congealed ice and then it occurred to me: if it all melted there'd be water all over everything! I guess one could disconnect the thing and put a bag around everything. All this either presupposes either long notification of a possible outage or a generator to cool things down after doing the machinations. This could be another argument for icemakers, one more thing to break down, leak (water supply), etc.

I got real lucky and didn't ruin my laminate floor from the ice maker. Power was out for a few days when I was not home. Came home to a huge puddle on the kitchen floor. Ice had melted and the water ran out of the dispenser in the door. Completely stupid design!
Now if the house is empty for a few days or more I dump out the ice and turn it off.

 

[nate379]

Put freezer stuff in coolers outside, to keep animals out



Weather for Sand Lake, NY

25°F | °CWedThuFriSat

Heavy Snow Wind: N at 10 mph Humidity: 93% ​

I just put in totes and toss in one of the vehicles outside. I've got 3 or 4 that hardly ever get used.

 

[HDRock]

I just put in totes and toss in one of the vehicles outside. I've got 3 or 4 that hardly ever get used.

Thats a good idea to
Long time ago , I went one winter ,didn't even have a frig , I used coolers outside for everything

 

[woodgeek]

Will the small 2 stroke HF genny run a fridge?

and a couple CFLs and my insert blower simultaneously. With the ice maker turned off. Right at the edge, but no prob for 5 days.

 

[velvetfoot]

Will the small 2 stroke HF genny run a fridge?

Yes. It does take a heavy hit once in a while when the fridge does its thing, but the only other stuff we had on were the insert fan and some cf lights.

edit: Could've watched some TV I guess with the fridge turned off, (it's plugged into a switchable surge suppressor extension cord, which probably isn't a bad thing anyway), but nothing was on.

 

[velvetfoot]

Put freezer stuff in coolers outside, to keep animals out



Weather for Sand Lake, NY

25°F | °CWedThuFriSat

Heavy Snow Wind: N at 10 mph Humidity: 93% ​

see post #10

But seriously, I just didn't think of it, even though we've done that in the past when we didn't use a generator. I figured the outage wouldn't last that long and I'd run the little genny anyway.