Quote Originally Posted by ~TG~
I've been surfing and is this something that i could use??
OR is this overkill? or not enough? LOL

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...amp;lpage=none


I looked at one of these for my house in corpus last year. I think they are great. I looked at a number of diff. models and generac at 12k would run my house as the power company would.

I had a little power outage issue last week. power out for 27hrs. I was luck in that someone was home to tell me the power went out. for most, it goes out when we are at work or away from home. so the auto start of the generac is great.

what i did was run a bait box air pump from WalMart or Academy. i had a 1800wt generator and ran it every 1-1/2 hour for 10min at a time.(i live in an apartment currently) this work well and i had nothing die.
I ran return pump and powerheads. If i could have i would have run everything on the generator non-stop, but running it on my patio didn't go well with my aprt. complex.


edit: I live in houston now.