Any way to use a say 3000 watt Honda generator to make hot water?
or do the 4500 watt elements act as an overload to the generator (or would you just get hot water slower?
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I'd just use fire.
its hot enough during hurricane seasn that we just shut the hot water heater off .
you gotta let the shower water run a while to get cool enough to shower .
hot water would be my last use of power
I made this copper coil that I lay in the gas grill. hook a hose to, and get all the hot water needed.
You could run the WH on 120V, or replace one of the elements in the WH with a lower wattage one. But hook a 3KW genset to a 4.5KW element and (hopefully) the genset will immediately go offline or blow a fuse.