The last couple of years our area has lost power for several days, which got me thinking about how much it sucks to lose electricity. Once in the heat and once in the cold.. And we lose our well too. Makes for some crappy times.
Was considering building my own or buying a ready to run unit. Wanted to be able run the whole house and run off LP. Building probably would have made a "better" unit but probably would have been more money and involved a fair bit of tuning and tweaking - not sure if I have the knowledge or resources to do that. So after mulling over my options for back up power for a while, I decided to go the most sensible route and buy one. My matco dealer actually had a 10k tri-fuel Firman Gen for $1200 which seemed like a fairly competitive price, plus he threw in a cover.
Got it set up and going to replace the torch spark plug with an ngk, then hook it up to LP and run it against the house loads for a while for break in..
II figure it's the cheapest way to guarantee I'll never lose power again for more than a few minutes
Was considering building my own or buying a ready to run unit. Wanted to be able run the whole house and run off LP. Building probably would have made a "better" unit but probably would have been more money and involved a fair bit of tuning and tweaking - not sure if I have the knowledge or resources to do that. So after mulling over my options for back up power for a while, I decided to go the most sensible route and buy one. My matco dealer actually had a 10k tri-fuel Firman Gen for $1200 which seemed like a fairly competitive price, plus he threw in a cover.
Got it set up and going to replace the torch spark plug with an ngk, then hook it up to LP and run it against the house loads for a while for break in..
II figure it's the cheapest way to guarantee I'll never lose power again for more than a few minutes