Your last generator Maintenance Run

[ultrarunner]

Nice to see vintage iron, well taken care of :drink:

Is this another scheduled outage, or something else going on ?

Rgds, D.

Home is scheduled Public Safety Power Shutoff and will be 24 hours come 8:30 pm.

 

[ultrarunner]

Judging by the fact you still have your 1980 car......

Maybe you dont throw anything out..::dance1:

1905, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1938.... and so on but you do have a point as I drove my $800 Plymouth for 20 years...

I had a plan but at this point not so sure anymore...

Helped another friend with his 3500 Champion Generator... has not tried to start in over a year... a wiff of starting fluid was all it took... its not loud unless you compare to a friend's Honda 3000i I got going the other day.

Big Supermarket brought in a MQ 400 kW... Sure is quiet!

 

[3930dave]

Home is scheduled Public Safety Power Shutoff and will be 24 hours come 8:30 pm.

Hadn't seen the news, but guessed that was it.

It would be interesting (not totally joking) to compare grid availability in Cali, with 3rd World countries.

This can't be helping EV sales....

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

1905, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1938.... and so on but you do have a point as I drove my $800 Plymouth for 20 years...


Big Supermarket brought in a MQ 400 kW... Sure is quiet!

Say it ain't So ! How could you scrap the 1902 !



I'm much more impressed by modern ultra-quiet diesel generators, than just about any other piece of machinery I've seen in the last decade.

Rgds, D.

 

[grsthegreat]

1905, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1938.... and so on but you do have a point as I drove my $800 Plymouth for 20 years...

I had a plan but at this point not so sure anymore...

Helped another friend with his 3500 Champion Generator... has not tried to start in over a year... a wiff of starting fluid was all it took... its not loud unless you compare to a friend's Honda 3000i I got going the other day.

Big Supermarket brought in a MQ 400 kW... Sure is quiet!

Those MQ are super quiet......
And super expensive. Ive worked around studio gens in the past. Cant hear a thing. Just feel vehicle vibration.

 

[groundcover]

Those MQ are super quiet......View attachment 674534
And super expensive. Ive worked around studio gens in the past. Cant hear a thing. Just feel vehicle vibration.

Yikes, only going to order two at that price !

 

[ultrarunner]

Wife of a coworker reps MQ and said broke all sales records with the fires and safety shutoffs.

 

[daugen]

I could use a little help finding the right parts to make a simple T connection for two 30 pound tanks as Lou suggested.
Generator comes with standard hose with fitting that goes to one tank. Am having challenges finding the right T connector that utilizes that fitting, which I believe is called
an Acme fitting, plus two female ended hoses to hook to tanks. Maybe this isn't the right way to do this...
thanks Drew

 

[LouNY]

Morning Drew,
if the link works it is for a propane tank manifold:
Amazon.com: Mr. Heater F273737 2-Tank Hook-Up Kit with Tee and 3-Inch Hose Assembly with P.O.L. Male Ends,Multicolored,Regular: Home & Kitchen

Why they have to get fancy and call it a manifold instead of a tank tee I don't know.
Possibly because you can use multiples of these to manifold several tanks together.

 

[not2old]

Morning Drew,
if the link works it is for a propane tank manifold:
Amazon.com: Mr. Heater F273737 2-Tank Hook-Up Kit with Tee and 3-Inch Hose Assembly with P.O.L. Male Ends,Multicolored,Regular: Home & Kitchen

Why they have to get fancy and call it a manifold instead of a tank tee I don't know.
Possibly because you can use multiples of these to manifold several tanks together.

As a suggestion, go to an RV dismantler and get the valve from a travel trailer that automatically switches from one tank to another and also allows you to switch tanks without turning off the one in operation.