On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 9:40:17 AM UTC-4, Neon John wrote:





John
John DeArmond
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Tellico Plains, Occupied TN


I have thought emergency generators. but we are only a couple of miles from a substation and have only had the power go out about once in 8 years. And it was only out for a few hours.

So I have only come up with emergency lighting. And it is very simple. Just a couple of 12 volt batteries and some 12 volt automotive LED's.

But if I were going to have an emergency generator, I would try to find a fork lift engine that runs on propane and connect that to a 1800 rpm generator head. The engine and generator could be in a closed sound enclosure with the radiator and a fan in more or less the open.

Your remark about engines running about the same number of revolutions made me think of an engine at a pipeline pumping station I saw when I was still going to high school. To the best of my memory, it was a two hundred hp V8. No big deal there, except it ran at about 200 rpm and was about 8 feet long.

Dan