On Monday, February 10, 2014 3:38:02 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/10/2014 10:34 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:





The Question: Is it realistic to consider a remote gas outlet somewhere

in the yard with a flexible hose that could be connected to the two

gennies?





Sure, but check your local codes. In some places the gas device must be

secured in place and flex lines may not be permitted. You can also ru n

a gas grill to make the piping worth while too.



Some generators cannot be run in parallel either so you may have to

split the load.

I'd extend that to almost all typical portable generators used for
backup power. The typical generators
you'd buy at HD, Lowes, etc can't be run in parallel. There is no
way to keep the engines synchronized. So far, the
only ones I've seen that can are the Honda ones EXT was referring
to. And those are *inverter* type, the most expensive ones and
not the typical ones most of us here have. They do it via a
special cable that you need between the generators to keep the
inverters in synch. The inverters decouple the engine speed
entirely, so it's trivial to keep them in synch. If you have a
generator without an inverter, ie the less expensive ones, forget about it.

The thing I was worried about was the open ended concept of
paralleling generators. The origial post didn't make any
qualifications, which might leave some with the impression you
can do that with any generator.