Recent content by Astro_Guy

@Cmobile So from what you are telling us this unit will be lightly loaded, given that it is replacing a smaller 3500 watt unit that was getting the job done. I cannot see a reason to change the oil more frequently than 100 hours AFTER the initial break in. User manuals are generally written...

If air cooled snow blowers call for 5w-30 then air cooled generators probably should too. Just saying...

You would have to bring that up just when I decided that I didn't need one. :ROFLMAO:

Go it. How much would you anticipate it to run while you are away? If you are pretty confident that it will exceed 25 hours before you return then go ahead and change it. I am somewhat supicious of that "dino oil ony" for the first 25 hours but go ahead and change it with mineral oil if that...

Don't Generac generators come with several years of maintenance included?

All joking aside there was a mass casualty event in Reading, PA on July 2nd when thousands of people were waiting in 102 degree heat to see the Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy that was running about an hour and a half late. Over sixty people were transported to local hospitals suffering from heat...

Wow! I had a car in 1984 with an oil level monitor but the first car I can recall having a OLM was a 2010 Prius.

Wow - I never realized that they had OLMs back in 2001.

I cannot think of a reason why I would want to run anything but a 0w-X in any of my cars here in Pennsylvania or anywhere I drive them to for that matter. It might be different if I lived in Tuscon. Yeah you AZ folks, I know its a dry heat.

@andrew_j @The_Jeff @JeffKeryk I travel through western Massachusetts frequently and find it surprising how much solar power one can see. It is interesting to note that a small state like Massachusetts has nearly twice the installed solar capacity as my home state of Pennsylvania. This begs...

Ford C-Max Energi highway run from southeastern PA to western Maine. Sheetz 90 Octane E0 fuel. 47.7 MPG per the evidence below. Backing out an estimated 15 minute lunch break yields an average speed of 55 MPH although I was running 72 MPH on the interstates. The trip mileage on the second...

You've just got to love someone who can do the math, don't you? Now stop confusing everyone with facts and let us all get back to senseless conjecture. :ROFLMAO:

17:36 hours 15 July 2026 here 30 miles north-northwest of Philadelpia. We hit a high of 96 today but now we are down to 91F. Our supply voltage is now at 117. The marinal price per MWh on the PJM is now at $204.

That seems to be an ideal case for OCIs of 10k or more. I've run a couple of 12k OCIs using M1 EP in both a Honda and Volvo and the UOAs always came back looking good. I have no experience with Mobil 1 ESP but you could try using the advanced search function to look at other people's...

@luckystryke What's the use case? How many miles per year? What's the mix of city vs. highway? Are you looking to extend the OCI beyond the recommended 10k? Toyota hybrids aren't exactly hard on oil. Our 2010 Prius went 210k on mostly 10k OCIs with 0w-20. Our 2017 Prius V is approaching...