GENERATOR - Event Date: 27 Feb 2014 - 27 Apr 2014

Yeah! What Doug said. I feel really good now that we have the Pod, a new yamaha 2400ishc and the Generac gas guzzler. A little power management and I think we're good!

Originally posted by Sleepless Originally posted by furpod   The Yamaha we are looking at runs about 6 hours on a gallon of gas.. 8 hours on a full tank. Could you give me the model number of the Yamaha you are looking at?

Yamaha 2400ishc

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During a 7 day power outage over Christmas, we used a 5500W Generac during the day, then at bedtime the house went dark and we switched to a 1000W Honda, which had plenty of power to run our propane fired household boiler. The Honda ran out of fuel somewhere around 4:30 AM, which allowed indoor morning temps to drop to around 60 degrees. When the Generac came back online in the morning it warmed up fast. During this outage we kept the thermostat at 70 degrees, higher than we normally run it, thinking the house wouldn't cool down too much when fuel ran out at O Dark Thirty. It was definitely noticeable to us and actually a wee bit too warm during the day. 

Mark, that Yamaha is impressive.  I did notice that the consumption is rated at 1/4 throttle and it has a 1.6 gallon fuel tank.  I wonder if you have to keep it on full throttle to start one of our pod's air conditioners.  My Dometic 3000 must be on full throttle to do so, and that greatly reduces my run time on a tank.  I do like the looks of the Yamaha.

Thanks for sharing.

Bob

Originally posted by furpod You can get fuel out of those vehicles if you need.. I have a hose, with a schrader valve on it, that I can screw onto the fuel rail, and turn on the key and let the fuel pump run..I got the idea from the fact that my mustang has a fuel rail pressure gauge, so I just built this hose, and mounted it the same way.. worked.

I've read of doing this and want to - just need to figure out the parts.  Is there typically already a joint on the fuel line where it is easy to add in a T?