Recent content by eastvt

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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    And at 1:27 AM, my portable generator is running. Snow event over performed the forecast by a good bit. 108 outages in my town. Bloody hell. I guess I’m not crazy to be working on the whole house generator. Back to bed, with my CPAP on the battery.
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    This Onan is just a few miles from me. The guy selling it is an electrician, took it from a nearby lab that had used it for backup for its freezers but the power almost never went out, so almost never any use. 44 years old. I imagine dis-use is more of a problem for this than real use. I still...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    Noooo......! You're not going to pop this balloon too? Almost certainly made in China. Nevertheless, seem to have a decent reputation.
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    I've spent more time researching and thinking about this than I'll spend running the thing for the rest of my life. I'm pretty sure I've come down to the Champion 14k and will get a propane tank again. Maintenance details aren't included in the owner's manual, which I've read, so I might want to...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    Will not get the 20k Onan. I would wet stack it running at such a light load.
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    Yeah, just had the LP tank hauled away a year ago when we got rid of the gas range. Kind of a relief. But yeah, it would be great for a generator. On the other hand if we had a 9 day outage and ran out of LP it might be hard to get a truck here to deliver it. Keeping gas fresh for the current...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    So I found a 4 cylinder diesel Onan 20k for less cost than the smaller Lowboy. Not sure how expensive it would be to set it up for auto start. It’s about 24 years old with like 3100 hours on it. Assuming it’s got at least another 3000 hours of life in it? Meanwhile, on another forum, I found a...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    Heat pump water heater, stays on heat pump mode, pulls 300 watts.
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    I've got a phone appt with an electrician tomorrow. He's a good and smart guy. The load here is really never over 5k unless the oven and or dryer are on, which is deliberate. I can see that from the Sense monitor we got with the solar install. Really, never. No natural gas here, and we removed...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    "Are you really wanting auto transfer upon mains failure?" Yes, that is a real impetus. About half the power failures we have happen in the night. We both use CPAP, so it would be deluxe to keep sleeping. I've been tough enough to get up and go out into the storm to switch over to generator...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    "- Brushed Self regulated - Uses just a capacitor and has poor voltage regulation but is cheap." Yeah, I guess I don't even have to look up the details of this generator to guess that's what it's got. In any case we're moving on (I think I mentioned while I was away on a trip my wife wasn't...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    Thanks! Fuel isn't a huge issue, mostly, though pouring a bit less diesel during a long outage is better than pouring more of it. We've had outages up to about 8 days. Every year we'll have multiple outages of a few hours, but a multi day event happens once every few years. If it can truly...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    Interesting. I wonder how that translates to directly powered generators. The Kubota "Lowboy" I'm talking about is a Kubota/Yamaha dedicated standalone generator that comes in 7k, 11k and 14k flavors. The 7k is two cylinder diesel, the 11k is 3 cylinders. Water cooled. Kubota makes the engines...
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    Sizing Kubota Lowboy Generator

    I'm looking at replacing my generator, currently gas powered with the ubiquitous Honda G390 on a Husqvarna generatore. That engine I guess puts out 11.7 HP, and my generator is rated 6500 watts. I seriously doubt it is really able to produce that. Maybe something is a little bit wrong with it...
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    G1800 Mower Won’t Engage

    She going to try new belts on the front pulleys. The belts from the Kubota dealer seem to be much more substantial than the ones she bought online.