generator capable of emergency power to small freezer as well as tools on the allotment etc

Have you checked if your freezer contents are covered by house / home-contents insurance? If the power-cut is not your fault then yo may be able to claim, either against your policy or whoever caused your power to go off. Cheaper than buying a genny!

Not answering your question, but I heard on the radio this morning, from someone from EDF, that if your power is off for more than 18 hours, you can claim £50 from them - so that should be £50 towards the generator, which may mean you can afford a better one!

Toby...

Almost certainly it'll do. To be sure, look at the ratings plate on the ff for the VA rating.

NT

The peak load is at start and can be very high - a 1A pot (240W, which is a reasonably sized FF) can blow a 5A fuse - but lasts for ~2 - 3 cycles. On start, the inrush current pulls in a contactor (klixon) that supplies the start winding then drops out leaving the pot on its run winding. ISTR the PF being 'not too bad' - but can't unforget wot it were.

hopefully the gen will supply it without too much V drop. Plus the compressor gets many attempts to start if not initially succesful.

NT

I presume he lives SE London way

There have been some very naughty boys playing in the area

it's all dahn

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Allthumbs saying something like:

Hmmm... probably. The fridge/freezer motor takes a belt of current on startup, but the genset alternator will withstand overload in the very short term, happily, it's long enough to cope with a fridge starting up. What I do when the standby genny is tiny like that, is just switch off the fridge for a few hours and keep the door shut. If I need to keep the temp down, I turn everything else off and let the fridge run for a while. I have a chest freezer, so it can remain powerless for ages.

I can do that but prefer to rectify the problem.

we should get £100 then :-)

thanks

yes, I would just give them a boost every few hours, as i happens EDF managed to switch us on for 3 hours now and again.

morning,

Didn't you just say you where getting power for 3hrs every now and again? The "pay compensation clock" will be reset back to zero each time the power comes back... It has to be off continusly for so many hours before they pay out. With a large number of customers affected for a long time it's cheaper for them to send engineers round manually switching feeds to keep that compensation clock below the threshold...