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Keyser Soze

On 1/5/18 11:49 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 08:32:51 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

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My 5.5 KW burned about 0.5-0.6 GPH gasoline and more like 8 on propane
running pretty much 24 hours a day at close to full load. Once I
started running propane, it never turned off. I did trip the breaker
now and then when the loads ganged up on me. ;-)

8 what?
gallons of propane an hour

What is involved in converting to propane?

You remove the carb, install longer studs, slip the propane venturi
over the studs and reinstall the carb. Then you mount the regulator,
hook up the hoses and you are ready to rock. The whole thing takes
less than an hour the first time and I bet I can do it in 15 minutes
now. They give you the initial setting on the control block for nat
gas or propane and you dial it in from there once you get it running.
I may be able to improve the fuel consumption a little but I would
rather be too rich than too lean. I have it pretty close tho.

I haven't been once disappointed that we bite the bullet and bought our
propane genny for the house. We have a propane/electric hot air heat
pump for the main level, and the genny will run that and almost
everything else in the house turned on at the same time. It'll also run
the a/c on the unit in the summer plus all the important other stuff. I
think I recall that it uses 1.5 to 2. gallons of propane an hour running
at at least a half load.