[TowerTalk] Low RFI Generator

[K8RI]

On 3/26/2013 10:02 PM, Wilson Lamb wrote:

There are a number of whole house systems available that run on natural 
gas, LP gas, diesel and plain old gasoline.  Gasoline is probably the 
most inefficient and costly for fuel.  Natural gas is the most 
convenient and economical to run, BUT it also depends on the mains and 
in large scale outages could be problematic.

I don't remember who makes/sells them but a whole house diesel running 
15 to 25 KW with auto start and auto transfer would probably run less 
than 10 grand. They even start up and warm up either once a week or once 
a month.

I have a 10 KW gas unit with a manual transfer switch. It'll run 
everything except the air conditioner.

I've been thinking of installing between a 15 to 25 KW unit with either 
LPgas or diesel.  The problem with natural gas is as more people keep 
adding them the supply lines aren't large enough. Availability in case 
of a major, long term outage could also be a problem..  OTOH they are 
probably the most economical to run.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Not sure about size, but Onan makes some very quiet ones for motor homes...
> WL
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