new Champion dual fuel INVERTER gen
My apologies if this has already been posted CPE dual-fuel INVERTER gen @ Costco
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"Where's the nearest propane plant?"
Drive 12-miles over badly washboarded dirt, make a right, drive 45-miles, sometimes they close for no reason fill up then return. 114-miles just to get "gas"
I got tired of this is one big hurry. Pickup truck used LPG motor fuel. Had a pair of 83 gallon Manchester tanks mounted one atop the other. That's when one grade of gasoline was worse than the other down here. Mix that with sludgy rusty water and tah-dah, justification to switch to LPG fuel.
When a generator is used so infrequently stabilizer additive alone won't work, a person may want to ask themselves if having a generator is at all justified.
A jobsite carpenter or technician may put a propane generator to good use. Infrequent use. But run time limitation frequently makes LPG power generation as practical as power windows on a motor bike.
Then the dual-fuel option is not free to begin with. A very careful auditing of the realities of cost versus practicality is in order. Citing a house with a 500 gallon tank for generator power is quoting the laws of a different universe.
Overall cost totals for generator purchase, lifespan, maintenance, cost of warranty or repairs, fuel all add up to X money factor per kWh totals. i.e. the couple who paid thousands for an onboard Onan option, did not use it for years on end, then discovered the engine seized and generator interior corroded. That kind of illogic is pure fruitcake.
This is the nuthouse grade thinking that drives folks to install many hundreds of dollars worth of golf car batteries in a rig that spends 99.9999% of its life connected to a power pedestal.
Folks passed through here last summer. Generator wouldn't crank. They never boondock. Further research revealed their F550 tow rig had a PAIR of factory 270-amp alternators. When I suggested installing a beefy true sine wave inverter and foregoing the generator, they looked at me and remarked "Oh we couldn't do thaaaaat! We'd never use it" "Uh, how much did your generator cost?" But thaaaaaaaat's different!" "How many hours did you run the generator since last December?" "We've never started it" Then how the hell did you discover that it wouldn't start?" "Well Harold caught a cold and we were sitting at the dinette and there it was, the generator remote start button"
I departed strumming my index finger across my lips...
Drive 12-miles over badly washboarded dirt, make a right, drive 45-miles, sometimes they close for no reason fill up then return. 114-miles just to get "gas"
I got tired of this is one big hurry. Pickup truck used LPG motor fuel. Had a pair of 83 gallon Manchester tanks mounted one atop the other. That's when one grade of gasoline was worse than the other down here. Mix that with sludgy rusty water and tah-dah, justification to switch to LPG fuel.
When a generator is used so infrequently stabilizer additive alone won't work, a person may want to ask themselves if having a generator is at all justified.
A jobsite carpenter or technician may put a propane generator to good use. Infrequent use. But run time limitation frequently makes LPG power generation as practical as power windows on a motor bike.
Then the dual-fuel option is not free to begin with. A very careful auditing of the realities of cost versus practicality is in order. Citing a house with a 500 gallon tank for generator power is quoting the laws of a different universe.
Overall cost totals for generator purchase, lifespan, maintenance, cost of warranty or repairs, fuel all add up to X money factor per kWh totals. i.e. the couple who paid thousands for an onboard Onan option, did not use it for years on end, then discovered the engine seized and generator interior corroded. That kind of illogic is pure fruitcake.
This is the nuthouse grade thinking that drives folks to install many hundreds of dollars worth of golf car batteries in a rig that spends 99.9999% of its life connected to a power pedestal.
Folks passed through here last summer. Generator wouldn't crank. They never boondock. Further research revealed their F550 tow rig had a PAIR of factory 270-amp alternators. When I suggested installing a beefy true sine wave inverter and foregoing the generator, they looked at me and remarked "Oh we couldn't do thaaaaat! We'd never use it" "Uh, how much did your generator cost?" But thaaaaaaaat's different!" "How many hours did you run the generator since last December?" "We've never started it" Then how the hell did you discover that it wouldn't start?" "Well Harold caught a cold and we were sitting at the dinette and there it was, the generator remote start button"
I departed strumming my index finger across my lips...
