Ed wrote in news:cHEJg.21391$y7.9758
@bignews6.bellsouth.net:

So many people bought gas gensets during
the last hurricane and did nothing but put stabil in the tanks (If they
did that...)

Oh, no, they were so relieved when the light came back on....

All they did was shut down the gensets, shut off the fuel from the half-
empty plastic gas tanks on the cheap Colemans to the cheap B&S engines,
then put them away with corrosive black lube oil and gooky gas still in
the crankcase/carbs/lines and gas tank.

They got what they deserved this morning when they tried to test it for
TS Ernesto.....no go.

I did crank the beast on 1989 gas just to make sure, myself, if I needed
the Honda. I probably will never need it as there's a Honda EU3000i
electronic 3KW genset I use all the while powering the stepvan shop and
it's dual AC units. The house acquired a 16KW propane-powered Onan
autostart/autoswitch stationary genset from a friend of mine who finally
went out of the paging business a few years back. At home, propane or
natural gas is MUCH better for a genset as it NEVER "goes bad" or
requires draining a carb. Before a storm, you simply go out and look at
the guage on the 250 gallon propane tank to see if you need to call Blue
Flame Gas for a truck delivery. They even call me to see if I've checked
it every month from a list of their automatic-fill customers. The tank
actually belongs to them and was free with purchase of 250 gallons of
Propane...a loaner? It uses around 30-40 gallons per year from power
outages and my maintenance checks. It was a real bargain for $600, even
though I had to go move it and install it myself. I hired a towtruck to
haul it over here for $75. It ran the paging office and main terminal
before. It's got...??....200 hours on the hourmeter?...(c;

After sitting in the dark for THREE MONTHS after Hurricane Hugo tore the
electrical system completely down in our archaic overhead electric
company, like a 3rd world fiefdom, Larry swore he would NEVER sit in the
dark, ever again....

My neighbor has a 200' cord so he can reach my outside outlet. He never
complains when the generator noise auto-cranking up in the night wakes
him up. The lights here are never out more than about 10 seconds, now.

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