SmittyMHS

You can get 60' of 6/3 stranded romex for around $160 if that helps.

If anything can make a Honda generator better it's running it on propane or NG.

You're gonna need a minimum of a 1" pipe to feed the beast. Do you have that near where you intend to put the genset? Is it before or after your furnace/water heater? I think a plumber would size the piping for the BTU use total on the line. Which wouldn't be the case if the power is out. Best of course is to have it on its own supply direct from the meter. Not always necessary in an emergency. If you want to heat the house, cook diner, take 3 showers, and run the generator all at the same time, you may have a problem. If you want a whole house power supply for everything and not worry about it. Get a supply line sized to the max load.

Pipe is cheaper then wire. just sayin...

Maybe it's just me but I'd rather have 6 20lb cans of propane. For many reasons. The least of which is the weight of lugging the gas around.

I tear up when thinking about any of our fur babies that have crossed over. Thinking of your loss today.

Never enough.

I said ammo...not gun powder.

The thought of 3 months without power makes me want more ammo.

I'd find that out before I got one. I'm sure anyplace that can fill cylinders could do any size. But with the new exchange-a-cylinder thing going on recently it might be a little harder to find a fill station.

I run my getset on NG except to fire it up once every few months. The pluses way out weigh using gasoline . I've looked into getting a big LP tank and found Tractor Supply, loews and HD all carry them. A 40lb tank would be like having 10 gal of gas on hand and not worrying about rotating the gas cans to keep it fresh. If you already have the conversion kit, it's a no brainer. If you've ever had to fill your generator in a raining lightning storm night, you'll leave the gas cans for the lawn mower. No a side note, if you are storing gas for any length of time I just talked to a long time small engine guy that says using hi test is the way to go. It will out last regular even treated. The alky is tuff on these small engines. And if you can get it, aviation fuel is even better long term.

He's 2.5 hrs away or I'd go over and check it all out. Extension cords tend to take a beating so I told him to start with that. He's in construction so I'm not sure where the cord came from. If you know what I mean.

I don't think a line conditioner is the answer here. More his extension cord or a fluky GFCI on his genset.

Of course you do! Cause I just got a APC BN1500M2 UPS for my puter room. "Nickle short and 5 minutes late" will be on my tombstone. Anyway I found out it was his GFCI that tripped, not the breaker and he was using a 50' extension cord rated @ 15 amps. Told him to up it to a 20 amp minimum 12 ga wire and as short as he can make it.

14.5@ 220Volts

Yeah there's always that...lol I don't really know whether it was a breaker or a GFCI. He's a great who could totally build his own house. Just don't ask him to do more then flip a switch or plug something in as far as electrical. I'll have to ask him that. And how long a cord and was it heavy enough to not cause a voltage drop on start up.

An interesting side note here. My buddy down the shore just got a 5500 watt Generac because ...well you know. Hooked it to his new Samsung fridge and POP! The breaker on the gen goes. Runs everything else in the house including a window AC unit, three 'puters and two 50" tvs. Tried it with nothing else on the line and still pops the genset breaker. Comes to find out that the new fridge needs an inverter type generator to power it. https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00085682/ WTF are they thinking? The most important thing to try to keep running and now you need a inverter to power it? I've been looking for a stand alone inverter for him just for the fridge but it looks like he's gonna have to get a sine wave UPS to plug in when he needs the fridge on emergency power. Anyone have any experience with a small stand along inverter just to smooth out the sine wave besides a UPS? I seem to remember something that had a bunch of large capacitors that kept the voltage constant and had a nice smooth sine wave filter. But that was years ago. Everything I found is 12, 24 or 48volt in 120 out.

There's a reason most wheel kits have only 2 wheels. Make sure you block the wheels while running it or it may just walk away by itself.

I use NG but have been thinking about getting a 100lb cyl for LP just in case. Tractor Supply has a pretty good price on new ones.

Wally World synthetic oil got very high ratings (close to Mobil 1) in tests I read about in another forum I'm on. Also on You Tube. Oil is oil...Change it on time and you're golden.

Unless you have oil heat and a big tank I would rethink that. LP and NG are cleaner. We had a small diesel genset at work just for emergency lighting. We could only test it early in the morning or weekends because of the smell and noise. Bunch of cry baby scientists!

ummm..no

Keep your friends close. But keep your enemies closer.

I have a FB page. Rarely if ever do I put anything personnel on it other then a comment to a friends post. Mostly joined it to access other FB pages I wanted to explore. Anything I put on it is either funny or political. The only friend request I except is from friends I know. I have NO time for anyone who doesn't like my political posts or sense of humor. And just like here, I don't use my given name. (that I hate). A friend of mine almost lost his job because someone hacked his account and started placing racist stuff on it. So be forewarned. What I don't understand about FB is people that need to put their entire life happenings on it. That I don't need either and will unlike if they find it necessary to tell the world where they are or what their doing every moment of the day.

I've been there a few times since the re-re-opening and haven't seen many shooters. Although talking to the few I have seen said it's catch as catch can during the week. Weekends are of course a whole nother thing. My suggestion is go early during the week. HTHs