washers and generators

[Egon]

Golly, from the days of growing up off the grid, we have a washing machine that just has a hand crank on the top for agitator and another crank for the wringer. Absolutely no problems if the power goes out.

Water was no problem either. Hand operated sucker rod pump in the porch.:thumbsup:

 

[tommu56]

Interesting. One was an Onan BGE 4000W Emerald which I think was a pretty good unit.

same gen and a staber washer no problems for like 15 years
Staber Washer Model HXW2404 (White Cabinet)

it runs off my inverter or the gen and doesn't miss a beat

 

[Pete Judd]

On the boat, I have a 2500 watt Heart Interface inverter driven off 8 golf cart batteries, I use a 120 amp 8 hp water cooled diesel 12v generator to charge the batteries. and have a heat exchanger to heat the hot water from the waste heat. Only need to charge every couple of days. And I never let the batteries get below 50 percent. I am thinking of doing the same here at the house. The genset only uses about a pint of diesel an hour. And the power needs on the boat as well as here at the house can be very low.

 

[ultrarunner]

On the boat, I have a 2500 watt Heart Interface inverter driven off 8 golf cart batteries, I use a 120 amp 8 hp water cooled diesel 12v generator to charge the batteries. and have a heat exchanger to heat the hot water from the waste heat. Only need to charge every couple of days. And I never let the batteries get below 50 percent. I am thinking of doing the same here at the house. The genset only uses about a pint of diesel an hour. And the power needs on the boat as well as here at the house can be very low.

Are you running a northern lights unit?

 

[ultrarunner]

Golly, from the days of growing up off the grid, we have a washing machine that just has a hand crank on the top for agitator and another crank for the wringer. Absolutely no problems if the power goes out.

Water was no problem either. Hand operated sucker rod pump in the porch.:thumbsup:

I would have thought for certain you had a gasoline powered Maytag...

 

[Egon]

I would have thought for certain you had a gasoline powered Maytag...
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Later on we had gasoline powered washing machine but it wasn't a Maytag.


Yesterday I was at the Stan Reynolds museum in Wetaskawin for an old time farm exhibit. Seen a Maytag Washing machine there.:thumbsup:

Lots of goodies too. Old tractors, harvesting equipment, Steamers, ploughing with a twelve bottom, Thrashing machine in operation. Hey, I even thew a bundle on a hay rack. Still knew how to do it and place it on the rack!:thumbsup:

 

[Pete Judd]

Ultra, its a home built kabota 8 hp, coupled to a 120 amp Balmar marine alt. Built it a few years ago.

 

[masscity]

You guys got me thinking, the last time I used my generator I plugged my Samsung HD TV and my DVR to it and watched TV.

It's a high speed 4000/3500 Champion and the TV seemed to run fine.

Am I doing any damage to it?

 

[ayelvington]

You guys got me thinking, the last time I used my generator I plugged my Samsung HD TV and my DVR to it and watched TV.

It's a high speed 4000/3500 Champion and the TV seemed to run fine.

Am I doing any damage to it?

Probably not. They can run a bit warmer, but it it worked it was probably doing fine. It's just that some stuff can't take the noise, and some stuff doesn't even see it.

I have to shut down all of my PCs and take them off of their UPSs since the UPSs see the power distortion and switch to batteries. Beeping drives me nuts!

 

[ctbigman]

Arrow, Just trade in your Coleman for a HONDA EU6500is. It is an inverter and has "clean" energy to run computers and the delicate electronics that are in all the new appliances.