Propane. No natural gas close by - at least not any closer than about two streets away, unfortunately.
Kohler. 24RCL, 24kW Toyota industrial engine powered water cooled 1800 RPM set. Set on a concrete pad with a sound attenuated enclosure. 200 amp automatic transfer switch. Everything in the house will be powered by this. No Generac. Had I done an air cooled set, I would have considered Generac, but I want an 1800 rpm water cooled unit as they’re far quieter, have lower fuel consumption per kW, and last a lot longer. They are more expensive, easily 30%-40% more than air cooled. Air cooled is pretty much anything below 22kW and runs at 3600 rpm. Loud, sucks fuel and has much higher maintenance costs and requirements. Longevity is far less as well. Now I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to set up a fuel supply. Might end up with a 500 gallon LP tank in the front yard and some directional drilling done to get the line under the driveway and around the back of the house. The alternative is a couple of 120 gallon tanks in the back yard, but with this unit using 4 gallons per hour at full load that doesn’t provide a very long run time in the event of an extended outage. Actual consumption will probably be more like 1-1/2 to 2 gallons per hour, but even then that only gives me roughly four days of run time if the tanks were full (assume 80% capacity when their full, or around 100 gallons.) -D > On Apr 2, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Natural gas or oil? Is t a Generac? > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:08 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > Pulled the trigger on my whole house standby generator project today. Gave > the dealer the go-ahead and will be signing papers and sending out a deposit > check tomorrow. > > Had to have the “prepper” conversation with the wife this morning, making > sure she understood that when a natural disaster occurs and we're the only > ones in the neighborhood with electricity, AC, lights, refrigeration, etc. > that we’re not an arm of the American Red Cross. Tough decision to make, but > you gotta draw the line somewhere. She’s on board with it so onward and > upward, so to speak. > > It will take 4-6 weeks for permitting so nothing is going to happen right > away. > > Got the jump on the hurricane season work, as people will start getting > freaky about that come May or so (hurricane season is June-November). > > -D > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
