Generator propane/Natural gas conversion big sale
If you have been thinking about converting your generator to tri-fuel see the big sale this weekend: http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=KKtIk&m=3gWXRIVTlva_u1m&b=tpYibCkYhqKgiFiFWnVFdg
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SaltiDawg wrote:
I paid the $180+ a year ago and converted my new 7500 Watt generator to run on propane. I am not an RVer, but for residential power backup fuel, in a long term area wide black out, propane will remain easy to get... gasoline not so much.
US Carb is a great outfit to deal with as far as Customer Service and I can not believe they essentially halved the selling price.
I have never actually seen a LP fuel pump that did not run on electricity. So if the gas station does not have power, it will not be pumping propane either. You can 'draft' propane into a empty tank, as the empty one is 0 PSI, and the storage tank is say 140 PSI, but soon after adding some propane, both tanks will become the same pressure, and you might only get 1 gallon into a 5 gallon tank.
Delivery to your home will solve the propane problem, however the trucks can only fill a 100+ gallon tank. My buddy who delivered propane could fill a 500 gallon tank in 15 minutes, so filling anything less than 10 gallons was a problem, as they could deliver 30 gallons per minute from the big trucks.
Propane only has about 90,000 Btu's per gallon, while gasoline is 115,000 Btu's per gallon. So if both are $3 per gallon, you get about 25% more fuel energy from the gasoline than the propane. It would be better if gasoline was $3 and propane $2. Then you can get more Btu's per $1 with propane.
Changing to Natural Gas will work great. Except if you live someplace like Northridge, where when they lost electrical power, (1994 earthquake) the natural gas lines also broke in the same earthquake, and you could not use Natural gas, or buy gasoline.
It would help to have a larger diesel generator backed up with Natural gas. By using 80% natural gas, the diesel generator will run extremely clean, and will use only about 20% of the fuel as when running on diesel alone, so a 1,000 gallon tank that might last 36 hours will last about 1 week.
Good luck!
Fred.
Yes they do run compressed natural gas on diesel garbage trucks, they have done that in Long Beach CA for well over 15 years. They still use about 10% diesel, for upper cylinder lubrication!
