Since you have multiple jerry cans why modify one can to accept the fuel lines instead of making a fitting for the lines that would fit into the spout opening ? That way you could simply move the lines from an empty can to a full one. For the few seconds it would take to move over you wouldn't get enough air into the system to losse prime in the pump. I've seem military geenys that used this setup & I've done similar for for gas fired gensets.
1) I have all different jerry cans, most are steel ex-military
2) I had this setup with a cap and lines (can take pictures), and hated it
3) Transferring lines means shutting down the generator, which I would like to avoid.
Keeping food cold, water to flush and drink, power to run furnace blower. All those things can be cycled.
You hook up power to the fridge, wait for the thermostat to kick out, turn off generator.
Pick an interval for powering generator.
Being able to watch tv and other stuff doesn't matter. Light a colemen lantern and read a book in the mean time.
Okay, charge your laptop, recharge the ups running your dsl router so you can stay connected between generator starts. Maybe charge the iPhone too.
Power off a bit too long, get your AK out.
Wes
-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller
You get desparate enough, you can stand in front of it modulating a valve. I ran a V8 engine once by pulling the metering jet out of a propane torch and feeding gas up the line to my vacuum gage. I didn't need to go far and it sure beat walking.
Wes
-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller
Rationing fuel is ok if you have reason to expect a really long outage, but for the more normal day or so max it's easier to just run the generator full time and get on with your life as if there was no outage.
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:07:16 -0500, the infamous "fran...123" scrawled the following:
Har! I was thinking the same thing. "Egad, that looks like MY welding!" Methinks Ig should do the work first, THEN have happy hour, don't you? I simply _love_ that sprayed goop in the 0025 pic!
(Ig, you've done better work. )
-- Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.
But do you know if its going to come back on in an hour, a day, a week, a month and so forth? Or is it simply "hope"?
My power was out Friday night..er..Saturday morning at 2:18 and stayed out for 10 hours.
First rain of the season did it. As it always does here in the desert. Transformers etc etc dry out in the summer and the first wet we get...poof..
It was between 5 and 15 seconds from the time the rain started to Poof! Took out about a 1/4 mile radius best as I can tell..about a 1/2 mile "square". I simply fired up a Coleman lantern..put it in the bathroom for the ol lady..and used two more and worked in my reloading shop for a few hours before going to bed.
Didnt bother firing up the genny..gas is in short supply at the moment. Shrug
Gunner
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Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or about Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:52:33 -0800 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Couple years ago, the power went out at home. A fact I did not find out until after work - at 1 AM. Was out for four days. Most of that was no problem, power was on at school and work. And I had a gas grill on the "patio" so I could cook dinner. (Grilled Lamb chops, with honey mustard ... yum!"
But finding my way home the first night, in a hall where the emergency lights had given up hours before - was "fun".
pyotr
- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!
During a blackout, you're supposed to scale way back on the electric usage. If you try to run your toaster oven, hair dryer, and filament space heaters, you go through fuel at a rapid rate.
I've heard that home heating oil will run in diesel engines. Since you're not driving your genrator down the road, it's legal. One farmer friend of mine used to use home heating oil in the diesel engine of his farm tractor. A 275 gal tank of fuel oil might be legal in your area.
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