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Electricity is something we use every day. But when a power outage occurs, a portable electric generator can keep lights, refrigerators, and other appliances running. More importantly. If someone in your home depends on electricity for medical needs, a portable generator can provide power in an emergency. Portable generators come in many sizes. If you're thinking about buying a generator for backup electricity here are some things you should know to select the right generator for your needs and operate it safely. To purchase the right generator you need to add up the total power needed for the appliances you plan to run at any one time. This power is measured in Watts. The values can be found on nameplates attached to the appliance or in your owners manual. This information may also be available online or by contacting the manufacturer. If power is not listed in watts, find the average in voltage ratings on the nameplate. The power can then be estimated by multiplying the...

Hi folks, it's Mike, The place you will find some great tips from the kitchen to the garage. And if you are someone with a curious mind who likes to learn new skills so that you can be handier around the house, how to lock down your generator to help prevent generator theft. And notice I said, help prevent generator theft. Because the fact is there is no way that you can lock down a portable generator. so a thief doesn't take it if he is determined to take it.  we're gonna show you how to lock it down and we're also going to show you a couple of techniques that you might not have thought of. We're going to show you how to find the generator, in fact, a thief takes it. And we're also going to show. you how to identify the generator when you find it so that you can demonstrate. to law enforcement and say, hey, hey, hey, hey, this is my generator and I can prove it. Real quick folks before we begin the video on how to preven...

   Portable Generator Enclosure We've got USB power here, a 5 volt 1 amp and a 5 volt 2.1 amp USB port, of course a 12-volt outlet here and on the AC side What I've installed, you'll see how that works in a bit, is an AC voltmeter and ammeter and that gives me an indication that power is on here and also is very important because theammeter tells me how many amps I'm drawing out of the system using various appliances and that's very importand when you're developing your solar power budget for solar power generated during the day versus solar power being utilized from the system. I've installed some Leviton weatherproof covers to my 110 AC outlets here and swinging back around to the back side.   what I'll show you is that this is all turned on using a master battery switch, that's been installed here. It is keyed. sp we will install that key and power up the AC side of the system. You'll see here that when you turn that switch on ...

Portable Generator Enclosure Today I'm Showing you my portable solar power generator that I recently built. I want to thank all of the folks who posted their projects on YouTube previously, they were great inspirations for this one. I consider this a medium-size and moderately priced portable solar power generator. It generates 110 amp hours and costs, including the 100-watt solar panel that's used to it about $950 dollars total cost. It's portable, but I would say that it's not meant for backpacking. It weighs about ninety pounds. This particular unit I built to use on my cruising boat. I wanted something that was portable so that when I sold the boat and upgraded, I could take the system out and take it with me. I also do some tent camping and it will be used for that purpose as well. The system offers again 110 amp hours, obviously, the starting point is to get some power into this ...so for demo purposes today I'm using a small 27-watt solar pane...