[ADXA] CQ WW

[Steven Rutledge]

My Cummins will run 69 hours on 250 gallons of propane at full load, or 
125 hours on same amount of propane at half load.  On a thousand gallons 
of propane it will run my genset about 10 days if I have calculated 
correctly.  You can only put 800 gallons in a 1000 gallon tank.  That is 
about $1600 to $2400 dollars based on current prices if I'm correct.  
That is almost my annual bill for electricity, water and natural gas.  I 
have run my genset for two weeks X 2 and four weeks X 1 and I didn't see 
much difference in my MLGW bill.  I'm no expert on propane but I have 
always been told it is expensive to run a whole house generator on 
propane. It doesn't matter because we can't have propane tanks in 
Memphis. Plus, in the wide-spread outages we have here I'm wondering how 
hard or easy it would be to get delivery.

I'd go with the two Hondas for your shack Jussi.

Steve, N4JQQ

On 12/1/2025 1:35 PM, Roger via ADXA wrote:
> correction 3   250 gal tanks
> Roger
>
> On 12/1/2025 12:39 PM, Jussi Eloranta wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> Did you say that you have 3 x 20 gallon tanks? This is propane? I 
>> have 250 gallon propane tank that we occasionally use for heating. 
>> Perhaps I could hook up a generator to it as well.
>>
>> I don't actually need power for the house - just the shack :-) So, a 
>> smaller generator would probably do.
>>
>> Jussi (aa6kj)
>>
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