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Fretwell
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:04:01 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:
Wrote in message: On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:42:43 -0400, Harree Putz, aka, Keyser Soze wrote: On 9/14/17 10:35 PM, wrote: Has anyone heard from Greg recently? He seems to be missing in action. --- Hope he is well and doing well. Without Fretwell, there's little in here besides right-wing assholes, like...you. === Harree Putz, how do u do... If you think I'm right wing you've never met the real thing. FYI, you once expressed an interest in the longevity and operating costs of diesel generators on larger boats. We installed our 20KW Kohler in the fall of 2004, shortly after we bought the boat. So it's now 13 years old and has about 5800 hours of operating time. That's roughly comparable to a car with 300,000 miles on it. The generator has not been maintenance free, but has never required a tear-down/re-build, mostly little things like sensors and hoses, but also an exhaust elbow, a couple of new starter motors, and several raw water pumps. Bottom line is that it's still going strong, starts right up in a split second, does not smoke, and uses almost no oil - about as well as you could expect for a hard working piece of machinery of that age. On average it burns about 1/2 gallon per hour. I'd estimate maintenance costs at about $1 per hour, maybe a little less. It has served us very well in the past week with our hurricane related power failures, powering the entire house when needed, including the central air conditioning, electric hot water and electric stove. Haree has a little generator to power his cpap machine and his food chillers. I doubt it can handle central air. === Yes it does. Even our 20KW grunts a little when the A/C compressor kicks in. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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