>Umm then you have to turn off the water heater >breaker,etc.
>And the wife would be running the vacuum.
>Now if you have a 200 amp generator that would >be fine.
This is true. But is it very easy. I run my whole house from a 6500W Honda Inverter. I have about 30 circuits and I put little orange stick-on dots next to the breakers that get turned off when running from emergency power. It is basically the hot water heater and central air. Everyone understands the drill.
And... in a true extended emergency, if I find myself needing more hot water I **can** run the hot water heater from the generator if I turn off a bunch of the other breakers until the water gets hot. I tested it last summer. The water heater showed 5500 watts on the generator's wattmeter.