First generator test with 1 gallon gasoline. Just the cave and barn. 1 stock tank heater, 3 freezers, a refrigerator, numerous lights (LED) and assorted electronic stuff. It won't run the heat pump on auxiliary heat, but does fine with normal heat pump and runs the blower fan no problem. Not conserned much about auxiliary heat or even the heat pump in normal mode, because we have a wood stove that'll keep the cave like the bahamas if we need it in the winter.
Not bad at all actually, it's kicking out consistent 238 volts, nice clean power with no lights flickering. I put in a good 50 amp twist lock receptacle on 6 gauge 3 with ground copper to a 50 amp breaker in the panel box. That and a and a good 15 foot 50 amp extension cord is doing what it should. I'm just doing a gallon of 87 octane test. I'll run it, till it runs out of gas to get a idea of runtime per gallon.
Next test will be adding the house. It has a LP gas furnace and LP tankless hot water heater, refrigerator, LED lights and assorted electronics. Electric clothes dryer and electric range, probably won't be able to use unless at night. But we'll see how that goes.
Edit... The generator ran 1hr and 40 minutes on one gallon of 87 octane gasoline, I loaded it down too, had everything running, including cycling the the heat pump and air conditioning along with external LED flood lights. 1 hour 40 minutes per gallon of gasoline is pretty good. That's 7 hours per 5 gallon gas can. I'm pretty happy with the first test. I need to think about the test and then discuss with Farm Babe. But she already mentioned building a murphy's bed, so we could sleep in the cave if we had to.
I'm pretty confident the generator will run the house also. Need to conserve electric in the cave and maybe just use the ceiling fans LEDs for lighting if needed. I need to get her on a LP gas stove then she could cook as she normally would. But even still, we have other means to cook.i'm curious to see how adding the house will do, test 2.
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