I never researched to see what it cost or how many cubic feet of natural gas I would have to burn to produce a KW of electricity...I'll leave that for others with more free time on their hands than I have. My generator is portable. It has a set of wheels on it. When I have a power outage, I pull the generator out of my garage which is only about 12 feet from my natural gas connection and the electrical connection. After the outage is over, I put the generator back into the garage, so I don't have a shelter over it while it is in service. I have never had a problem with it in any weather .conditions, sunny, rain or snow by not having it sheltered. As far as maintanance, the only thing I have had to do is change oil in the engine. I don't have an hour meter on the unit so can't tell you how many hours I have on it. I would guess less than 200 hours in 10 years. I can tell you that running it on natural gas verses gasoline, the oil when I change it is cleaner and I am still running with the original spark plug.
----- Original Message ----- From: Spiro To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 22:56 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Conversion Kits to Propane and Gas. I have a few questions. What does the natural gas converted electric cost perKW? How much maintenance to run one of these? What kind of shelter/venting do they need? On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, NLG wrote: > The horse power is 11 and it does have a float type carb. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rob Monitor > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 08:45 > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Conversion Kits to Propane andNatural Gas. > > > Hi, could you till me what HP. your briggs and stratton engine is? Also do you have the float type carb. on it??? > Thanks Rob from Minnesota > ----- Original Message ----- > From: NLG > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 5:47 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Conversion Kits to Propane andNatural Gas. > > Hi, > Yes, in my case, I can run my generator on either natural gas or gasoline. > > The engine on my generator is a Briggs and Stratton. The addaptor to run on natural gas fits right on top of the carb. The choke plate is moved on this engine by sliding a lever. After installing the natural gas addaptor on top of the carb, the sliding choke lever was not long enough to reach the arm on the choke plate, so I had to extend the lever to reach the arm on the choke plate. I extended it with a short piece of metal I cut from a piece of roof flashing and rivoted it to the end of the choke lever with two small pop rivots. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee A. Stone > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 23:49 > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Conversion Kits to Propane andNatural Gas. > > I do not understand you rmessage here when yhou refer to" to extend > the choke so I can run gasoline." did I miss something. can you run > these engines on natural gas and pr gasoline? thanks for the > explaining.Lee > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at > 12:51:34PM > -0500, NLG wrote: > > I converted my generator to run on natural gas about 10 yearrs ago. I don't remember now where I bought the kit but it was somewhere online. I do remember telling the sales person the model of the engine on my generator and that was the only information he needed. He then sent me the kit which consisted of a natural gas regulator ( looks similar to the one on a gas grill) an adaptor that bolted onto the carb, a piece of hose that connected the regulator to the adaptor, and a few bolts and clamps. It was pretty simple to hook up, I completed the job in less than an hour. The most difficult part was extending the choke linkage to get it to reach so I could still run it on gasoline > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Edward Przybylek > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:27 > > Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Conversion Kits to Propane and Natural Gas. > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I read this message about generator conversion kits and took a look at the > > web site. I was wondering if anyone has ever done such a conversion. If > > so, how well did it work out? Was the actual conversion difficult to do? > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Take care, > > Ed Przybylek > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh > > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:27 PM > > To: handyman-blind > > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Generator Conversion Kits to Propane and Natural > > Gas. > > > > Bill, I found this site. They have some interesting information about > > conversions. I didn't notice prices. > > They stated that a 20? cylinder is equal to 5 gallons of gas. 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