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On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:38:53 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
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On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 6:21:42 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:54:16 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/15/2018 2:11 PM, wrote:


You might run a couple days on a 20# propane bottle if that is true.
This may be an interesting conversion for you.
http://www.uscarburetion.com/eu2000i_kits.htm

There are different regulators for running off a portable bottle, a
big tank or a natural gas line but those folks are pretty good about
selling you just what you need.



That's an interesting idea. I have one reservation though. The eu2000i
is only rated for 1600 watts (continuous) and 2000 watts "surge". Those
are ratings for gasoline. I suspect that running on propane would lower
those ratings. True?


I certainly could not see that on my 5.5kw Briggs. I handled 5.3kw (my
oven) on both gasoline and propane with virtually no difference.

http://gfretwell.com/Propaneproject/Ongasoline.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/Propaneproject/Onpropane.jpg
http://gfretwell.com/Propaneproject/Waveform.jpg


Ah, a Fluke 8060A multimeter. My favorite... I have one in my desk drawer. Accurate, and measures dB directly (on a 600 ohm balanced pair) which was good for me. Interesting that IBM had Fluke private label for them.


They bought a few thousand, same with the Tektronics scopes. I bet we
had more like 10,000 of those Tektronics 453s.
I do think the 8060A was originally built to spec for us tho, at least
that was what they said when we got the first ones.
We had a use for every scale.