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Now... if you could only use that as a toaster oven while load testing! ;) Nice repurposing of an AC compressor housing!

There are a lot of benefits to using a load bank to exercise and troubleshoot one's generator(s): - Safety factor. Your not risking exposing your house wiring and appliances, etc. to potential fluctuating voltage/hertz issues. Let's say you had a malfunction where your generator voltage went...

True, but I thought Floridians only needed to get rid of heat! Well...having lived there long ago in Lakeland there were a few times it did get below freezing so your "if" makes sense. However, an added benefit when using a commercial heater as a either a load test or heater would be they have...

One advantage to using generic Garage Heaters is that if later on you no longer needed a load bank, you could use them as intended (as just heaters) or put them on Craigslist and easily sell them locally recovering much of your investment vs trying to sell a DIY special purpose load bank. BTW...

So what happened to yesterday's posting of a Garage Heater that was started as an alternative to building a Homemade Load Bank? It appears that his post was deleted without any explanation. Perhaps the commercially available item on sale was no longer available? Regardless, I thought the...