I just got in the house from talking with the local inspector and I have very few details to finish my Listeroid generator system with a battery/inverter on the side. It's a 6/1 Metro with a ST5 head and GM serpentine belt. My Reliance transfer switch and sub panel will be able to support most of the critical circuits in the new home we're building and the battery/inverter system will be used to run some light circuits and a few outlets. The only issues were a bonding screw in my main panel and the ground wire was not yet terminated in my generator's disconnect switch. I also must run a ground wire from my generator panel in the house to my inverter panel. Everything was researched and I tried my best to meet all of the NEC requirements, I just needed the inspector to show me the finishing touches to get it blessed. It's quite a load off my mind after 1 1/2 years of research and hard work. A lot of the info came from this board, thanks.

Petersbpus, I have the almost identical setup, except I have the Reliance pro/tran 30310a switch. My Listeroid 6/1 powers it and last week I ran my critical loads through the swich while I moved my main panel as I'm building a new house designed around this setup. What I did was use a 100 amp subpanel with all of my critical loads that runs off my main 200 amp panel through a 50 amp breaker. The reliance panel was mounted next to this and ,as per the instructions, the loads were hooked up through the transfer switches. I can pick what loads I want to run through the generator system and you can hear the Metro lug down a little as the watt meters go up. The seperate panel was used because the project is part of a long term renovation.

 All of the neutrals are the same, as per the instructions, whether the circuit is being fed from the mains or the generator so it seems OK. Since I'm building a new house thats connected to all of this, I'm having it looked at by the inspector so it is completely OK. I'm sure there will be a few issues with bonding and grounds but I've had to overcome more than a few issues to get this far .

 I also have a battery bank of 10 golf cart batteries wired to 12vdc with a 6000w surge inverter. This inverter is hardwired at 110 volts to a small panel that powers all of my lighting loads in my mechanical room and some outlets in my mechanical room and generator shed at this point. It is charged by 50 amp chargers when the listeroid runs or off the grid to keep the batteries topped up. I would like to run circuits to each room from this panel also for off grid power but with my inverter I can't share neutrals with the grid system so I need some direction on this when the electrical inspector stops by.

I've been filtering oil and running my vehicles for 3 years and I have had great luck with gravity filtering. I use jeans for sock filters and am able to get 6 on a 55 gallon barrel. This gives me about 25 gallons per barrel when I start out, less as it fills up. After filtering and settling I either pump through a 5 micron filter cartridge into containers for my vehicles or 20 micron filters for my storage tanks which have a heated fuel valve. In 3 years I have changed very few fuel filters on my vehicles using this method. In the winter I have a heated cabinet(discarded freezer) that I use to warm/settle the oil in, along with electric spears for the barrel and socks. Having spent my whole life working on other people's complicated machinery, I choose to keep things simple and cheap for myself.   Living in upstate NY my conversions also have completely heated fuel systems so they can be used down to -20F.

Just this last week I got my exhaust hooked up so I can work in the shed while the engine is running. Then I got the thermosiphon cooling hooked up and ran my electrical wiring into my house to the generator panel. It has been exactly one year (July 4th) since I bought my Metro and it is almost completed as far as generating electricity to charge my battery bank. Then its on to the heat recovery system. I'm not sure how to post pics on this forum but I'll try to get some together with a link sometime.

I totally agree that overunity and this free energy machine is BS. My point was that you can explain how that solar panel is only 7% efficient because you know all of the science behind it. In the future there may be ways to tap into another source of free energy that is a mystery right now. Thinking outside of the box is one way that discoveries such as these can be made.

You could get a filter housing from a junk yard that fits a VW diesel Rabbit. It has mounting bolts, looks kind of retro and has excellent filters available with water drains.