OT: Battery backup

[C Day]

Does anyone use natural gas powered, automatic start-up, stand-by 
generator rather than gasoline powered?


On 2/25/2011 5:09 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> The Honda EU3000IS we have is extremely quiet, and we've never
>>> had a complaint from the neighbors, the closest being about 100
>>> feet from it.  Powering 4 racks of computers including my office,
>>> it burns about 3 gallons of gas every 8 hours.  I have to fill it
>>> three times a day.
>>
>> One thing I've always wondered: how does one store gasoline, if you rarely
>> have to use the generator? How much do you store, how do you store it,
>> what happens if you don't use it for a long time?
>
> I have enough 2.5 gallon gas cans to keep the generator running
> for three days given that our drive is long and steep, and the
> roads leading to it have been blocked by fallen trees in some of
> the big wind storms we get.  We had a pretty big tree down across
> the driveway during the 1991 storm, and trees down across the
> access road in both directions once out of the drive.
>
> The gas is OK for a year or so in these cans.  Normally I empty
> the cans into my car during the summer, keeping enough on hand
> for a day or so just in case.
>
> The instructions I got on care and feeding of the generator were
> to (a) turn off the gas and run the generator until it runs out
> so as not to leave gas in the carburettor when not in uses, and
> (b) to keep the generator tank full to avoid condensation when
> it's not in use.  They also recommend running it for a half-hour
> or so every 30 days to keep the battery charged, and to prevent
> deterioriation from lack of use.  We get enough power failures
> here so I rarely have to run it just to charge the battery.
>
> Bill
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