"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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: "Doug Kanter" wrote in
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: "Pop" wrote in message
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: Hi,
:
: What do you folk do for gasoline storage for your
generators?
:
: I am in far northern NY with harsh winters and occasional
: multi-day power outages with frequent outages of several
hours in
: the winter. Worst one so far was during the Ice Storm of
'98 - 5
: days without power.
:
:
:
:
: Convert the generator to run on natural gas or propane;you can
use the gas
: lines that run your home heating,or the kitchen stove/oven.
: Even when electric power is lost,you still get gas.
: A fair sized propane tank will run a generator a long
time,probably longer
: than it should run continuously.
: And it's safer because you do not have to refuel a hot
generator.

That's a good thought, but I know zero about propane conversions.
Is it a diy if one has any experience at all? How would I go
about finding out more about converting? Any thoughts? Other
than Google, I mean; I'll be going there shortly but no idea yet
what to search for.Yet.

Any idea of the pros/cons? Especially starting in very cold
weather? The genset isn't permanently mounted; it's a roll-out
to the site when needed kind of thing. Hit the start button,
plug it in, and flip the transfer switch; I'd want to keep that
ease of use.

Thanks for the thoughts; appreciations.

Pop