[TowerTalk] Low RFI Generator

[Richard Solomon]

During a rather nasty cold snap here in the Tucson area a couple of years ago,
the demand for gas increased drastically and coupled with a supply problem,
the Gas Company actually shut off Gas delivery to parts of Tucson. Nice guys.

When it came time to turn the Gas back on, they had to visit every home, on
a timetable they set, with +/- 8 hour windows. Really nice guys.

I'll dig coal in my back yard before I put my life in the hands of those folks.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:13 PM, K8RI <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net> wrote:
> 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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