Generator Activation & Load Management

doesn't get ruined so as we're walking here you'll notice things are going to get louder and louder and louder I've got a generator and my generator is very loud okay uh you look behind me right here's the generator uh we'll check it out we got a little Troy Built generator right here pretty cool generator it runs my air conditioning uh it runs lots of things in the house uh my freezers fridges no problem whatsoever the well pump microwave everything but you just can't run everything at once so we're only using 19% power right now oh woo forgot to tell you by the way when it rains it pours literally it rained and poured and I found a yellow jacket nest in my wall here so I cocked up the hole and I used this little popper thing I'll show you some point uh this little fly swatter electronic fly swatter works great for killing Yellow Jackets Nest I'll do a vlog about that totally dedicated to it we'll find a ground bee Yellow Jackets nest and show you but let me show you what the generator does there it go so the heat pump just kicked in let's go see how much power we're pulling now all right so our heat pump just kicked in heat pump kicked in we're running at about 50% power very impressed with this generator right here when you buy a generator there's a few things you need to think about we'll go around the corner and talk about it but this is an awesome generator I'll go around it real quick and show you so if you're thinking about a generator if you're thinking about getting something that'll run your entire house that Troy Built XP Series has 10,500 watts of starting power and that's the most important thing you can have 7500 watts of uh Power but if you don't have that surge power that 10,500 you're going to trip your main breaker and you won't be able to run some crucial things in your house like your heat pump and I'm fat and I like to stay nice and cool and this works it out