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Vaughn Simon

Jan 1, 1970
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Piccolo Pete said:
Anyway, thanks for the info. We might consider meeting up some day to compare
systems since we live so close.

Yes, let's do that.

Vaughn
 
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Vaughn Simon

Jan 1, 1970
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Piccolo Pete said:
I probably didn't make the best choice with my Coleman 1500 watter, but it
drives my tools well, only cost me about $300, and runs a few (5? 7?) hours on
1 gallon. The biggest problem is every time I finally get around to using it,
I have to service the carburetor float valve.

In your case, 1500 watts was probably a fairly good choice. General rule:
Use a small generator to run small loads, load to 50 to 80% of long-term
capacity. 1500 watts should be sufficient start most any refrigerator, which is
one of the basic items you want to power in a power outage. I have an old
600-watt Honda that dies if I connect it to my 'fridge...almost usless!

What is really inefficient is if you need to run that generator for several
hours to run your little battery charger at 2 or 3 hundred watts. In just fuel
cost, you would be paying about $4.00 for about 10 cents worth of electricity.
Because it can idle down to a lower speed, that Yamaha could do the same job for
perhaps half the gas. Still inefficient, but still a huge improvement. In your
situation, you would never save the extra cost of the generator.

That is disturbing... I've been wanting to switch from gasoline and propane
to natural gas.

Natural gas is a great way to go! In the last three hurricanes, our supply
has not been interupted for even a moment. Unlike gasoline or propane, you
don't need to stand in line to get it, and you don't have to pay for it until
the moment when you need it. (I also keep a few days of propane on hand for
that Onan) Hopefully, I have the Onan's problems sorted out now.
Question - are those inverter generators pure sine wave or modified sine wave?
My guess is modified.

The ones I have seen are sine wave. (High frequency digital PWM) I wonder
about some of the Asian clones though.

Vaughn
 
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Cydrome Leader

Jan 1, 1970
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Neon John said:
Actually, it's not well said. Small whole numbers are easy for people to
remember. It doesn't really matter what the units of EER are as long as 11 is
better than 10 and that 10 is about average. Consider another measurement,
COP. Is 2.8 or 3.0 or 3.2 or... about average? I can recall which it is
about every other day and this isn't one of 'em.

And yet we still lead the world. It must indicate the superior intellect of
the US citizen, since we move so effortlessly between metric and conventional
units. To listen to the foreign howls of pain, merely contemplating a foot or
BTU or PSI is a problem, the difficulty of which is on par with a man giving
birth.

well said.

I like how parts of europe use inch sized plumbing, but sold under rounded
off metric sizes. just check the numbers casted into the parts, or bring
some back to the us and see how they fit perfectly, because they are in
fact the same as sold here.
 
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