I finally did it......
Thought about it a long time because it seems a bit expensive and wasn't real sure about how it would work.
But, I converted my Coleman 5 kw portable gasoline generator to natural gas - tri-fuel actually, as it can still run on gasoline and is supposed to work on propane as well. Havn't tried the propane yet.
A power outage before Christmas got me motivated. Since I don't own a car that uses gasoline, it is a bit of a headache to store gasoline, and it goes bad.
Well, I figured I don't lose power all that often, but I have never yet lost natural gas. Now as long as I have NG, I can have power.
The generator was a little harder to get running on natural gas, but once it was, it seemed to hold loads just fine. I might put a new plug in it and try setting the gap at 0.020 as recomended to see if that helps starting - but I am generally happy so far.
Thought about it a long time because it seems a bit expensive and wasn't real sure about how it would work.
But, I converted my Coleman 5 kw portable gasoline generator to natural gas - tri-fuel actually, as it can still run on gasoline and is supposed to work on propane as well. Havn't tried the propane yet.
A power outage before Christmas got me motivated. Since I don't own a car that uses gasoline, it is a bit of a headache to store gasoline, and it goes bad.
Well, I figured I don't lose power all that often, but I have never yet lost natural gas. Now as long as I have NG, I can have power.
The generator was a little harder to get running on natural gas, but once it was, it seemed to hold loads just fine. I might put a new plug in it and try setting the gap at 0.020 as recomended to see if that helps starting - but I am generally happy so far.
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