Tony Hayes wrote:
Now that the power cut season will soon be here again I've been
thinking about getting one of those small petrol driven generators
which could be put to good use as well as acting as an emergency
electricity supply - basically running the central heating and some
lighting.

In use, is it simply a matter of connecting an 'extension lead' with
trailing bank of sockets to the generator and using this in the
house
to plug in your essentials? Or is there a way of putting some sort
of
permanent system in the house which can be connected to the
generator?

Sorry if this sounds a bit vague.....

Thanks
Tony

For domestic use it is simpler to put in a flying lead to power up
essentials. There are special changeover switches to swap to
generator power and back.

My personal favorite though is to have one low draw ring main which is
only used for central heating pump, gas boiler, tv / satellite/ video,
and a couple of strategic lights, run this circuit off a ups and when
the rest of the house goes into darkness you have a few minutes of
light to fire up the generator to power the ups.

MrCheerful