He's using modern/efficient electronics around it, but essentially what he's implemented is an old-school industrial/telecomm concept.
Many consumers today want turnkey solutions that they have minimal or no interaction with, like the one you linked. Good fit for the general market, but for a hands-on guy like 90, rolling your own solution gains things that matter to him.
Efficiency on his system is really high, partly because it allows a compact diesel do what it does best - use it's torque curve to deal with a relatively heavy load when called upon.
I like that hybrid approach. You can use batteries+inverter (power converter, not a generator in today's vocabulary) to constantly supply low-level loads (what's common in most households), then just use the dzl for heavy lifting.
Propane is a good solution (fit's daugen's use-case well, for his current abode), as it stores well. Diesel stores better than today's gasoline, and in a real SHTF scenario may well be more scroungeable than propane or gas. Under most scenarios, you need AC available to fill a propane tank...... diesel or gasoline just needs gravity to siphon.
Having any reliable generator handy is a good thing....... the exact details of the setup have different priorities, depending who you are talking to......
Rgds, D.
