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Default Emergency power system for one perosn: Generator or batterysystem?

On Dec 20, 11:39*pm, " wrote:
run off you vehicle with it idiling, provides power, no fuel storage,
no cranky hard to start infrequently used generator. inverters have
lots of advantages, just piuck the size you want. add jumper cables
for quick connection.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93280

We have used our inverter for trips, picnics where there is no power
etc.

had wonderful time with sno cone machine at a picnic grove with no
power. kids loved making sno cones


At an apartment complex leave the keys in a running motor? Maybe in a
gated, guarded complex. What about alternator life, or the car looses
coolant. I would not do it for more than a few minutes to get heat
with my car.