[Boatanchors] Wall Warts and Switcher Power Supplies

[rbethman]

Since my house is total electric, 8KW just won't cut it.

That's one of several reasons for the 22KW.

I also went with the liquid cooled model engine, and it runs on propane.

It also runs at lower RPM than the air cooled ones by the same company.  
It keeps the noise level down.

When you go with a setup like I'm doing, you would most likely run it 
for 8 hours about once a month.

It makes it a tested and reliable system.  Experience from old past 
"life" in uniform.

Bob - N0DGN

On 11/27/2012 2:14 PM, D C -Mac- Macdonald wrote:
> I have an 8 kW generator (on wheels) under cover.
> Last summer, the serves our house and 11 others
> boiled its cooling oil over and the blew.
>
> Air temp was over 100F but I fired the generator,
> dragged the 90 feet of 4x6AWG cable to the manual
> transfer box, switched the box to the genset and
> let 'er rip. Thankfully, it proved big enough to
> run the whole house air conditioning.
>
> Tank holds 5 gallons of gasoline and since power
> company brought out a replacement and installed it
> in less than six hours after outage reported, I
> didn't even have to refuel. Muffler was glowing
> red, though, from heavy load on the engine.
>
> I have had auxilliary power for over 10 years due
> to the likelihood of weather events (windstorms,
> tornados, ice storms, etc.) here in central OK.
>
> We can provide a little extra to neighbors, also.
>
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