Best generator

pianotuna wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:


Can you throw $10k at a solar system and get part time air/con, sure but a lot simpler and more reliable to just get a generator.

Define part time.

I could run my roof air for more than 3 hours in 2009. Cost of the system to do so was less than $2000.00. Cost for panels and charge controller was $6.64 per watt. Now panels are well under a dollar a watt (lowest price I ever saw was $0.26 per watt). My battery bank was 7 marine batteries @ $700.00. They lasted 12 years. The inverter was a Cobra 2500 watt MSW but rated to run motors.

So that same system would be much cheaper.

In the meantime battery technology has also improved dramatically.

I do have a generator but my costs for generators since 2000 total over $12,000.00. One died, 2nd one was nearly totally useless, 3rd one was stolen, 4th is now in a security cage.

The generator that lasted the longest was number one, a Kipor with a 10 year life span. I did have to have it serviced locally twice for very little money. It was also the 2nd cheapest.

I use the generator extremely sparingly.

I just have to lol at the lengths some will go to , to try and make a point. Even so far as to basically admitting you bought cheap stuff, or got unlucky and paid way too much.
Guess if I was gullible enough to spend $12k on what could have been like $900 I might be in favor of something different as well.
BTW, this is one of the most ridiculous arguments y’all have made up , in a while….just sayin.