Post by swampyankee on Jul 27, 2020 8:49:37 GMT -5
Our home out in the country has well water as well as a pump-up septic system, so an emergency generator is an essential out here.
A friend gave us a nice water cooled Honda 6500 watt gas generator (model ES6500) some time ago and I haven't done anything with it yet. I'm finally getting around to formulating a plan for installation which includes conversion to propane, since we use it for cooking.
I installed a 5000 watt gasoline powered generator via a transfer panel to power an oil burner, some lights, and a well pump at my old house, so I'm familiar with the transfer panel install. After talking to a friend that bought a propane-powered generator for his farm in Maine, I Googled propane conversion kits and it's pretty cheap and simple to do.
So my plan is to pour a small concrete pad outside the house near the electrical service, and buy one of those plastic garden enclosures that open from the front as well as the top, add some louvered vents, and put the generator in that. Then I can bring a propane line into it from the tanks that are right around the corner of the house, and run an appropriately sized J cord from the generator outlet to the transfer panel inside. I'll probably shield the cord where it passes from the enclosure to the house and plumb the gas to it in copper tubing to keep the critters from chewing through it.
Sound like a plan? Any other considerations or recommendations from them who done it?
A friend gave us a nice water cooled Honda 6500 watt gas generator (model ES6500) some time ago and I haven't done anything with it yet. I'm finally getting around to formulating a plan for installation which includes conversion to propane, since we use it for cooking.
I installed a 5000 watt gasoline powered generator via a transfer panel to power an oil burner, some lights, and a well pump at my old house, so I'm familiar with the transfer panel install. After talking to a friend that bought a propane-powered generator for his farm in Maine, I Googled propane conversion kits and it's pretty cheap and simple to do.
So my plan is to pour a small concrete pad outside the house near the electrical service, and buy one of those plastic garden enclosures that open from the front as well as the top, add some louvered vents, and put the generator in that. Then I can bring a propane line into it from the tanks that are right around the corner of the house, and run an appropriately sized J cord from the generator outlet to the transfer panel inside. I'll probably shield the cord where it passes from the enclosure to the house and plumb the gas to it in copper tubing to keep the critters from chewing through it.
Sound like a plan? Any other considerations or recommendations from them who done it?
