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My wife and I have talked about getting a back-up generator to provide single-phase power our house during a lengthy outage. Also, I want a generator to provide 208V 3-phase power for my ~1950 5-horsepower Federal Signal Model 5 air raid siren, and any other sirens that I might acquire (a Thunderbolt siren system will require 15 kW at the bare minimum). Who knows, maybe when I get my forever home I'll want to run some beefy electric motors for other stuff ![Man shrugging :man_shrugging: 🤷♂️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f937-2642.png)
I was originally considering a trailer-mounted MEP-805 for this duty, but some short research seems to indicate that the unit can't easily be wired for single-phase house power. Maybe I'm missing something?
Does anyone have any recommendations for what I should be looking for? Is there a civilian genset I should consider instead?
![Man shrugging :man_shrugging: 🤷♂️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f937-2642.png)
I was originally considering a trailer-mounted MEP-805 for this duty, but some short research seems to indicate that the unit can't easily be wired for single-phase house power. Maybe I'm missing something?
Does anyone have any recommendations for what I should be looking for? Is there a civilian genset I should consider instead?