# Generator questions???????????

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**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/generator-questions/17996 "2006-09-25T14:48:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/generator-questions/17996/32 "2006-10-17T15:43:56Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> Mike,
> 
> Unfortunately, the extent of my generator knowledge was used on the first post.
> 
> Figuring out sizing isn’t that hard though. Pretty much every electrical device has an amp rating listed on it somewhere. Watts = amps X volts (volts is almost always 120, 240 for dryers and some other big things).
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> Keep in mind that electric motors have running watts and startup watts. My 1/3HP sump pump is around 800 watts when it’s running, but when it first kicks on it draws about 1400 for the first few seconds.
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> I now have a 5550 watt generator at my house, with an 8550 peak. It runs my natural gas furnace (basically just the big blower motor), sump pump, a light in the living room, 19" tv, my laptop (not worried about power because it’s being coverted to 15 volts DC), and a small fridge.
> 
> I’m going to look into a UPS for my desktop PC, and if it would be capable of filtering the generator power.
> 
> Well, my generator has a 10HP gas engine, and when my sump draws 800 watts I can hear the motor lug a bit, so I would say your “exhaust windmill” might make almost enough power to run a single christmas light.

Hey, it would create SOME electricity. I never said how much. Lol

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