Its funny how all these generators start looking alike after a while. Here's the one we have running at out off grid farm. 1195 changfa driving a ST12 generator head. Since we didn't need all the power it will put out we belted it down to just under 1000 rpm. Turning that slow the governor doesn't work much if at all. But since its main job is charging the forklift battery and the load is pretty much constant we just set the engine speed by the volt meter.
When we set it up we ran the generator all the time when we needed power. But 1.5 years ago we got a 5000 watt power inverter and a small forklift battery. We run off the battery and charge it up every 3-4 days. It take about 5 hrs to charge back up and 2 to 2.5 gallons of diesel.
There are two small solar panels on it but that just takes care of battery losses and doesn't add much to my net power.
Billy
