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Good deal on a generator
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We may be in the golden age of gennies: cheaper, quieter, more available. There have been days when I wished I had one.
Are you running it on gasoline or propane? I hear the latter is cleaner in gens and requires less maintenance (like carb rebuilds).
Whatever I happen to have extra of. The land where I use it has some propane heaters, and I try to keep 5 gallons of gas on hand.
This year was mostly gas, a 5 gallon tank lasted about a week running 4-8 hours a day, averaging 10 amps or so.
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Have you observed a power output level where the genny is most fuel-efficient ($/kWh or whatever)?
I never did the math that far down. There aren't many weeks where I needed to run it every day. The lower your draw the better has been my rule of thumb.
I have a couple jackery batteries that I keep topped off in addition to my solar system. The jackery stuff has it's own solar panels that I can run through a window in fair weather. That stuff, $/kWh, is the ay cheaper. But of course it has a huge up front investment.