Good work! One thing to be mindful of for tank size is how cold it gets. I watched your video unloading the unit off your truck, I see snow. The colder it is outside the less BTU’s you have out of a propane tank. A 100lb bottle would run a 80k btu furnace about 20 hours. I have a 22kw which at 1/4 load (6K) uses 115K BTU. A 100lb bottle at zero degrees puts out 50k BTU and that’s if it’s full at 80%, as the fullness drops from use the BTU also drops because the vaporization rate changes. I would do research and see what works for your area or worse case scenario calculations and size appropriately. I bought my own tank can get filled from any propane supplier. 💯 recommended owning your own tank for that very reason. Not sure if you’re familiar with Farrell gas or AmeriGas a while back they couldn’t even fill their own customers tanks and many ran out. After seeing that and thinking of how much I just spent getting generator out in, I thought it would be kinda silly to not be able to get the fuel to run it in a situation. It didn’t have to be a shortage either, massive ice or snow storms, or blackouts can lead to delivery delays also, so having any supplier to use gives one an advantage over so many others.
@domaleons
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info that makes a lot of sense. When it gets super, cold out into the single digits and when the power goes out, the generator usually doesn't work because it shows either low gas or no gas. Hey buddy of mine was telling me the same thing when I get super cold, the gas separates into a liquid or something. My plans is to get the official size tank when I can.
@dan8220
3 ай бұрын
@@domaleons yes sir. Now you could get a propane blanket for the tanks that keeps them warm so the BTU will be higher but with all that it would be better to buy a 500 gallon and just sit comfortably. I haven’t had to worry about propane in the last 12 years. One more note also, I would go back and put some antioxidant on the wire connections you made. Aluminum wire has the tendency to oxidize and potentially cause a fire. Not so much to today because the it’s not 💯 aluminum like past years but I would use noalox.
@JoseRuiz-ed5sh
Күн бұрын
When you turn it on manually did you have to have the transfer switch off ?
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