Hi,

it will be enough to run your fridge/freezer and water pump. You've no chance with an electric shower though!
Even with mains electric you'll be pushing to run an electric shower.  In the UK every house gets a 12KW supply.  Here the norm is 5.5KW with some contracting 10KW - do you know what yours will be?

You'll need to check the power rewuirements of your shower - most are 8 or 10KW.

They are easy enough to wire up - you'll have a socket on the generator - you need to run a wire from the input side of your differential on your power board to the generator plug.

Hope this helps


Nigel

Hi Paulab.

No offence but if you are asking these questions about elctricity then it is probably better not to attempt this yourself!!!  If you have such a short time to wait for electricity to be connected , then it is not wortwhile looking at batteries or inverters (they will cost near enough £1500-00-depending on what you want) Nigel is right, you have to look at what you are running, fridge-ok, freezer-ok - hairdrier-(NOTE:NOT PLURAL ) -OK Air-Con - OK . Try and run alll these items together , probably not. Having been in you position it is the most cost effective and easiest to have the generator run a few hours during the evening  just possibly for a bit of light and maybe the aircon and water pump. You will struggle with the fridge as that needs to really run  full days to compensate for opening and closing unless you have a chest freezer, that could survive on probably 4 hours of running, besides the weather is good and one doesn't really need electric so badly this time of year!!

Good luck

Have you thougt of a gas fridge/freezer,a lot more economical and you don't need a genny banging away all day.Ours lasts about 6 weeks on a bottle of gas and bottles of gas are about 12 euros.
Speaking from experience an electric fridge/freezer will be working flat out with overtime in the heat of the summer,the fridge motor will get dangerously hot and will use gallons of electickery.

We have a gas fridge as well, but a gas bottle only lasts 4 weeks in the summer, longer in the winter. You must have a very efficient gas fridge nobrot for a bottle to last that long. We rely on solar and have a good system and we run a fridge from this as well. We only really use the gas fridge now in the summer to put the drinks in.
We had our solar system put in by llatjes and they have done a fantastic job. So any one out there that wants a good solar system don't scrimp and use somebody that says they know what they are doing (because they probrly don't!!!) Use a good company like llatjes

My apologies for sticking my nose in AGAIN. I got a quote for batteries, inverters, panels installed finish and klaar for Euro 13000-00 That was based on .5Kw continues use over 24hrs. (I will get ALL the amp charge/discharge figures  should someone really want to look at it...) but that would give a household  of 2 grown-ups and 2kids sufficient supply. Our figures excluded vacuum cleaners, iron's, microwave's, hair drier's washing m/c on hot cycle's. It has been decided that these items will run whilst a generator is running (which was something that was not part of the quote). The rest of the stuff is gas where possible.