Running generator on Natural Gas
I need some advise from some one who knows about LPG/NG conversions. A while ago I bought a small 1.2 KVA gasoline generator and had it converted to run on LPG/Natural Gas by a mechanic. He drilled a...
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Learjet wrote:wa8yxm wrote:
You should have specified NATURAL GAS as your fuel, not LP, the orifice size is quite a bit different.
never seen one with an "orifice", all I've seen and used have a adjustment screw.
An orifice is a small hole from which stuff spews forth..
Some are adjustable, these usually have a screw with a long taper that goes in the hole and partially obstructs it, They are also called Nozzles or jets and are part of every carburetor.
I used the term Orifice because where I have had to convert from Propane to NG, that was the name of the device, but metering jet might have been a better word.
The problem is.. He's not getting enough of the fuel.
It remains that he has it set up for propane, and he's trying to run it on NG, won't work that way.
