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schmism
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Here is my issue with dual 2000i setup with extended tank.
Amazon.com : IPI BERG Dual Fuel Extender for Generators : Power Generators : Patio, Lawn & Garden
if you bought 2 clones like mine that supported parrell link plus the extended tank setup, and the parrell kit. Your total outlay is somewere close to a $1000. If you did it with to real honda's your looking at like $2000.
Generator development has really embraced newer tech recently. Ive seen better mufflers installed, electric start kits on gennys as small as 5K. electronic notification pannels to give you advanced diagnostics to troubleshoot it as well as built in watt meters and frequency meters. Built in dual fuel options with the option to run propane with the flip of a switch. For $1000+ I could have had one of these in the 7500w run (9K surge) range.
I dont RV and dont generator camp so having 3K of ultra quiet power just isnt worth $1000-2000 to me.
Oh one last note, Ground your generator. The furnace service guy pointed it out when generator supply was a clean 120v but when checking hot to chassie ground on the furnace, was only ~90 volts. the difference being, with a floating neutral, the phase of the hot supply will be "random" and therefore when checked against a true ground will show less then 120v. As soon as you ground the generator, the phase is corrected and will help prevent from burning up sensitive electronics.
I had chained mine to my porch railing but again its just to keep the honest man from walking off with it. One of the added pluses of one of the super quiet inverter types is that by the time you got to the street you couldn't here that i was running a genny. Although the lights in the kitchen was a clear give away.
Overall i was happy with its performance once I understood its limitations (autoidle) Granted for anything longer than a couple of days I probably would have wanted a larger genny, but the reality is, if you can stand monitoring your load and are willing to make the compromises then it would work for as long as you needed it to.
Amazon.com : IPI BERG Dual Fuel Extender for Generators : Power Generators : Patio, Lawn & Garden
if you bought 2 clones like mine that supported parrell link plus the extended tank setup, and the parrell kit. Your total outlay is somewere close to a $1000. If you did it with to real honda's your looking at like $2000.
Generator development has really embraced newer tech recently. Ive seen better mufflers installed, electric start kits on gennys as small as 5K. electronic notification pannels to give you advanced diagnostics to troubleshoot it as well as built in watt meters and frequency meters. Built in dual fuel options with the option to run propane with the flip of a switch. For $1000+ I could have had one of these in the 7500w run (9K surge) range.
I dont RV and dont generator camp so having 3K of ultra quiet power just isnt worth $1000-2000 to me.
Oh one last note, Ground your generator. The furnace service guy pointed it out when generator supply was a clean 120v but when checking hot to chassie ground on the furnace, was only ~90 volts. the difference being, with a floating neutral, the phase of the hot supply will be "random" and therefore when checked against a true ground will show less then 120v. As soon as you ground the generator, the phase is corrected and will help prevent from burning up sensitive electronics.
I had chained mine to my porch railing but again its just to keep the honest man from walking off with it. One of the added pluses of one of the super quiet inverter types is that by the time you got to the street you couldn't here that i was running a genny. Although the lights in the kitchen was a clear give away.
Overall i was happy with its performance once I understood its limitations (autoidle) Granted for anything longer than a couple of days I probably would have wanted a larger genny, but the reality is, if you can stand monitoring your load and are willing to make the compromises then it would work for as long as you needed it to.
