lawrosa wrote:
sch911 wrote:
So you're planning on leaving the truck run for hours and hours during the day? Doesn't sound so economical to me...
Again... why not??? Maybe 2 hours...Have you calculated the gas use of an idleing truck vs a genberator running at 3500 rpm;s? IMO the truck wins every time...
Please explain...
I'm not going to try and do all the math, but IMO I think using your truck to perform the same amount of battery charging as say running a Honda 2000 feeding an equilivant battery charger is going to cost you multiples like 5 to 10 times the fuel. I can run my Honda 2000 on Eco for around 6 to 8 hrs on less than 1 gal of fuel.
See pianotuna's fuel estimate as an possible data point on engine idling fuel consumption.
Larry
