ReneeG wrote:
For those of you that have dual or tri-fuel generators, what has been your experience between gasoline and propane and/or natural gas regarding power and running time length? I read an article today that summarized that running a generator on gasoline provides more power whereas running on propane is cleaner (understandably). Was it worth the extra expense investing in a multi-fuel generator? Thinking of converting our gasoline to propane or tri-fuel using the Hutch Mountain conversion kits for Honda eu2000i.
with the engine designed to run on gasoline max power output in order
1) gasoline
2) propane
3) NG
as far a clen burning and oil contamination
1) propane or NG
2) gasoline
I've converted my honda 2200 and 2000 to tri fuel from hutch mountain.
Why??
In the case of power outage assuming NG is still at the house I can run forever on NG, and I usually have 25 gallons of propane for various house stuff (firepit, heater, etc.) along with 30 gallons of propane for the trailer, but usually only about 5 gallons of easily available gasoline. (yes I could syphon from the cars)
BTW I never use propane out camping, seldom need more than a full tank of fuel in the generator so that's enough for the campout.
the only reason I did the conversion is for use as backup power for the house.