Hi Ed, I am not a professional on generators but I can tell you that since our 6.5 day power outage here in October of 87 we have had two different generators. the first was a used 3500 watt and the new one we got over a year ago is a 6500. I will another day feel up this machine to see if there is a empty lug for a ground wire but I'm thinking there is not. Our current generator is stored in about a 6 foot long and maybe four feet tall box which I am told by the neighbors looks like a casket up against the house. when we need to run this machine we open two front doors wide and turn a key as it is electric start. as for doing damage to appliances. I suppose that is possible but since 1987 I still have the same natural gas furnace and a big 18 foot Gibson freezer and a smaller 12 cubic foot freezer which have run off these generators. I have also run as many as three sump pumps and a large 22 cubic foot refergirator upstairs and a few houselights with no problem. I will tell you we rarely run anything directly off the generator because my brother inlaw has a duplex box in the basement marked" for emergency use only" once we fire up the generator I wait about 3 minutes and then flip both of those switchs in the duplex box up and we have power inside and again no damage to any appliance . Might I ask with your new generator are you running appliances thru your main electric box or off from extension cords? thanks Lee, oh, and I live in Upstate ,NY, just outside Hudson,NY
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