Carl,
I know what you mean about that, It’s funny how you view things differently If you are prepared .
When Katrina blew thru Florida as a low Cat 1 Hurricane, really not even that strong,, my wife called to tell me the power had gone out and my reaction was YES!!!! Literally with fist thrust into the air.
My Changfaoid 1115 10KW project was not nearly complete with automatic failsafe shutdowns, gauges, cute lights, etc.
BUT it was ready to power the house. It got a good 3 day test.
A month later when Wilma came calling, the project was done,
I had worked on finishing the electrical panel hookups all day Saturday(as Wilma approached) and then went home for dinner, then went back to the shop and worked all night till 8:00am Sunday, tested the systems and loaded it on my truck to take it home, 24 hours later Wilma was on top of us!
That was a 9 day outage. The unit ran 23.5 hours a day on 1\2 gal per hour.
Everyone in the neighbor hood was running Home depot gas gensets, waiting in lines for gas. We all have wells, so no power no water. When some of the gas stations did have power and open for business, often they had no gas but plenty of Diesel!! I also had barrels and barrels of diesel stocked away for the season,
Diesel pickup truck too. I win!! I did loose most of the shingles off my roof, tar paper stayed, kinda weird, but happy about that.
Carl,
Kudos on your air starter, if I wasn’t going to run waste hydraulic oil and need constant DC for line heaters I would have copied the air starter for sure, the automatic ram to engage it is just too cool.
The natural gas setup looks great too, if I set mine up for propane injection do you think that running some propane once in a while would help reduce coking of the head and rings?
For sure it would have electric valve for safety, but could it just be hooked up to the hose with standard orifice after the regular pressure regulator from a bbq?
Bob