Fixed your poor quoting skills there for you...
Do I need to show you Google too?
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Sizing Your Generator
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Fixed your poor quoting skills there for you...
Do I need to show you Google too?
Clay Pigeon
Shooter
I have a Miller Bobcat, I have run every appliance in two different homes for up to 9 days at a time, from wells, water heaters, hvac, refrigerators to home pc's and a few laptops.
Never had a problem running any of them, have you ever looked at the sine waves from the power plant generators sometimes?
Its not like hooking up a a/c tv to DC welder generator.. And releasing the vacuum and smoke out of the picture tube.
Clay Pigeon
Shooter
Though I am old and was educated with a pencil and paper, I've become lazy and have learned that I can use the Google to solve any problem I am posed with.
Absolutely love it, hot water until 1000 gal LP tank runs out. We have a Noritz NRC111-DV from 2009, 199,900 BTU/hr input. It’s what my brother in law wanted to sell me and it’s been great. We have to use more gas but I can’t tell it, the old farmhouse is pretty inefficient to begin with.
Trust that I fully understand my posted info. My initial thoughts was the old Miller my people had. It was brutal at best but it could make steady power. In clearing my mind I realize the newer machines do make cleaner power and some are even inverted.
A laptop powers through a charger which in a way cleans up the signal to the device.
Home PC's not so much unless you are running them through a battery power pack. Again a basic signal filter.
The rest of the home appliances as to HVAC/Pump/even some older refrigerators are A-OK here.
My furnace is very picky to the power source as it has a current sensing flame rod. There is some critical power involved.
And yes I have done my fair share of time in the power plants across the state working on and installing some of the HVAC equipment. Eating lunch with the engineers was an eye opener.
I am to believe if you act quickly and catch the smoke (at least 95% of it) you can put it back and have one more shot at it. Or so I am told...
Thanks!
This has me looking at one for the house. Need to research proper supply rate. GPM etc.
The reduction in fuel consumption for hot water is significant. What I've found to be the challenge is finding a manufacturer that produces a reliable product and prices are all over the place. As with the .308 AR market, standards aren't really consistent. Hard water reduces life (of course). This is what I'm looking at for the cabin:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-P...PIPHorizontal2_rr-_-306655644-_-303811994-_-N
FYI - It's not sized for four girls taking 30 minute showers.
Clay Pigeon
Shooter
Trust that I fully understand my posted info. My initial thoughts was the old Miller my people had. It was brutal at best but it could make steady power. In clearing my mind I realize the newer machines do make cleaner power and some are even inverted.
Like an old Miller DC with a Onan in it, and enough exhaust noise and piston slap to wake the dead.
Once you get above Millers Bobcat, you get much cleaner machines.
4.5 GPM will run a washer and a shower at the same time. Just me and CKW here at the house. The one you listed should be more than enough at 7.0 GPM
Yup. pretty much. It was a noisy beast. Old pipe fitter machine.
Clay Pigeon
Shooter
Make sure to check what the incoming water temperature is, colder water will drastically change the temperature of the hot water depending on size of heater and gpm being used at that time. It can will help to have water saver shower heads and nozzles on other fixtures.
I installed renni's larger units in my home and farm. One NG and one Propane. I also bought the extra set of drain ball valves to use to flush the heat exchanger once a year or so and they make it easy to.
Money well spent, I can easily run 4 fixtures and get 120° from each*** endlessly.
True. Although they will be at the top of the list to receive more fuel.
Never let the smoke out.Trust that I fully understand my posted info. My initial thoughts was the old Miller my people had. It was brutal at best but it could make steady power. In clearing my mind I realize the newer machines do make cleaner power and some are even inverted.
A laptop powers through a charger which in a way cleans up the signal to the device.
Home PC's not so much unless you are running them through a battery power pack. Again a basic signal filter.
The rest of the home appliances as to HVAC/Pump/even some older refrigerators are A-OK here.
My furnace is very picky to the power source as it has a current sensing flame rod. There is some critical power involved.
And yes I have done my fair share of time in the power plants across the state working on and installing some of the HVAC equipment. Eating lunch with the engineers was an eye opener.
I am to believe if you act quickly and catch the smoke (at least 95% of it) you can put it back and have one more shot at it. Or so I am told...
You can not let the smoke out.
Keeping the smoke in the thing is actually what makes the world go around.
We're in the process of installing a propane fueled genny with ATS.
Truth but in a failing infrastructure nothing is a given.
only if it gets into more detail than most do. the bill will show you the average over time but not usually the peak at any given time or what caused it. The bill may show I used X per month, or even X per day but it likely won't show if that was in an hour or all day. It won't show that X is for the AC or the oven or the water heater or how often it runs.
+1 for sizing for expected usage. fuel efficiency varies by load and they are usually best between 60-80% at a guess based on my experience with engines. Get too big of a genny and it takes more fuel to make X kwh than a smaller unit running harder... up to a point.
Can a modern TV be run on a portable gen set with a surge protector and be OK, or is there something in the gen power that's harmful?
