OK guys I thank all of you for the battery back up for emergency power information. I have received the OK from the xyl to use some household funds to buy a generator if it can also be used for some
Propane powered generators will not start in freezing cold weather. They must be insulated and heated. Keep that in mind. Buy a little extra capacity, not the surge capacity, but the continuous capac
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:45:02 -0600
The water heater is the killer. Likely 4 KW. Fortunately unless its very poorly insulated and the family insists on long showers, it can hold half a day or a day without power. An insulating jacket i
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:58:05 -0600
Not true. But the propane tank must be large enough. Too small a tank won't have enough vapor at low ambient temperatures. My 5 KW Onan needs at least a pair of 100 pound tanks. They typical house 50
My hot water heater is 4 kw like Jerry says. My 6 kw ( 8 kw peak) genset can handle it, if I manage load aggressively. What I do is power it off part of the time and save lots of load that way, while
Not what I was talking about. Sure, the tanks will also freeze if they are too small. I was assuming they were large enough and would not freeze. I am talking about the propane feed into the engine i
Depends on how deeply the temperatures dip where you are located. We've out run twinned 100lb tanks running a modest sized Onan. But then it was showing -32F on the gauges. At -45F at an Oxbow Wis Ca
When it comes to freezing the tanks, it is the amount of heat used to vaporize the gas (phase change from liquid to gas uses up a huge amount of heat) vs. the stored heat in the mass of the liquid an
Not so at all. Propane will start when gas or diesel will not. I have a 10K propane on a 500 gal. horizontal tank Yes, mucho surface area. It starts fine in the teens or 20ies. But, and this is a big
Not to belabor the point Josh, but teens and 20's are not what I consider cold at all. Pretty much anything will start there. I'm talking 20 below zero and downwards. The fact that you need a "hot" b
I've experienced the opposite, though at temps 40 degrees less than where you've had luck. BTW at the lowest temps we get in our northern part of our state you should put in oil with winter in mind.
Ok OK, U got me. I yield. Move to Huntsville Alabama and I will be Correct. HI HI ..... good point. DXUPONU _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com h
Ok Ok. Many Flames.... ^^^((())). I am still right for Huntsville, Alabama. I Yield, I also place myself and my Orion II at the mercy of the court. But, please Move to Alabama where I am correct. (no
You could come up this way, to Wisconsin. I'm sure we'd find you some extra icefishing gear and snowshoes! North of here they even drink Angostura Bitter Shots to fend off the effects of the cold. I'
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Author: "James C. Owen, III" <k4cgy_list@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:15:53 -0800 (PST)
Another thing to consider with the choice of gen sets. In the state of MD, unless it has changed and I didn't see it, The maximum amount of gasoline you're allowed to store in portable is 5 gallon's.
This is a very interesting point. Kind of ironic that I am allowed to have a 1000 gallon propane tank 15 feet (and Uphill !!) from my house, but they would limit gasoline storage to 5 gallons. Ironic