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From : marsh monster

Q: ============ ============ =========== =========== marshmonster wrote whats the chances you live near hurricane alley...oops..the gulf coast ============ ============ ramman@dodgecity.cc wrote houston.... yeah generator frenzy is rampant this year theyre literally flying off the shelves. new policy tho at home depot and lowes all generator sales are final no returns. by the way let me tell you about price gouging. currently empty 5-gallon plastic gas cans are selling for $17.96 apiece. welcome to the guff coast. i picked up a generac 1019 13.5 kw peak 7500 continuous found a manual 2-pole knife switch style transfer switch and wired it all in last weekend. we also put a hard start kit and a 5-minute lockout timer on the a/c compressor. i was pleasantly surprised that with the hard start kit the 1019 runs the whole house and the 4-ton york central air system just fine. nice generator. ============ ============ im using a 5500 continuos. it runs for 12-13 hours when full. 6 gal tank what we did after ivan was to shut off the rooms in the house that we didnt have to use. i bought a window ac unit that keeps half the house cool and it worked out good. we were without electric for three weeks after ivan and 2 after dennis. had a bit of tropical storm that hit inbetween the 2 hurricanes but power was back on within a week. lmao any whooooo....... the same no return policy is going on here at lowes and home depot both. our gas cans are still a reasonable $5-$6 around town for the 5 gallon ones. they sure are getting you guys on the price of those. two side notes....... ive got brudder-n-law over near corpus. and....ck ur mail on the vw thing. marsh pensacola .

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From : Annonymous

monster marshmonster2624@aol.com writes im using a 5500 continuos. it runs for 12-13 hours when full. 6 gal tank the generac 1019 7500 cont. 13500 peak claims to run 10 hours on a 7 gallon tank at 50% load but with the a/c running we were measuring closer to 80% during our 2 hour test run. what concerns me is how loud that damn thing gets when the a/c kicks in. someone in another group suggested that i might be able to retrofit it with an automobile muffler. what we did after ivan was to shut off the rooms in the house that we didnt have to use. i bought a window ac unit that keeps half the house cool and it worked out good. we were without electric for three weeks after ivan and 2 after dennis. had a bit of tropical storm that hit inbetween the 2 hurricanes but power was back on within a week. lmao we originally thought about getting a 12000 btu window unit but after finding out that the generac will pull a 4-ton a/c along with the other necessary things in a 1900 s.f. home pleasant surprise! we should be ok as long as the outage isnt too widespread and doesnt last longer than 3 days. ill have enough fuel to go 3 days after that ..... .