Pictures of welding on the jerry can -- converted to fuel tank

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.

You figure to top off the gerry can while the generator is running? Sounds reasonable to me.

Hope you and the generator came through OK. Better than not having a generator, for sure.

Now, that is clever. Very good idea.

You can buy fuel at gas stations. So far, all blackouts in our area, left fuel supply mostly undisturbed. (except for a few local gas stations).

I believe that it is slightly under 1 gallon per hour, based on interpolation of a table in the manual.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, too.

That's good news. The 2003 ice storm in the northeast wiped out most of the gas station power.

Not with a 20kW diesel generator. In most cases, running the oven, clothes dryer and all the lights in the house barely gets you to half load.

This is the point of having a generator of this size, I will be able to run basically whatever I want, maybe going easy on the electric range.

Don't worry about it. I've run just fine cooking and baking and running the oil furnace off a 5kW gas generator.

"so far": is not something to depend on, you think?

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Sounds like the device is over sized. Sound like a person with an oversized generator could share some power with neighbors, in exchange for them providing fuel and some cash.

I'm always concerned about running out of gasoline. So, I'd want to scale back the electric usage when on generator.

Well, if I cannot buy fuel, I will try to run the generator only intermittently. I do not see this as a big issue.

This is my hope. I do not particularly want to make money from neighbors, but if I can get them to share the cost of fuel, it would be great, especially if travel is involved to get fuel.

I just ramp up my fuel reserves.

Should run just fine - #2 Distillate Fuel Oil is the same thing as #2 diesel fuel. But they usually sell you the Red Dye #2 Farm Diesel for Fuel Oil - the red signifying that you did NOT pay state or federal road taxes on the fuel. So when the CHP checks the fuel filters on the farmers' Kenworth hauling produce into town and sees the red dye in the fuel, he is busted. If it's on the highway, you have to pay the taxes.

(Boilers and Farm Tractors stay off the highways for the most part.)

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Not always. In a real emergency, that fuel may be taken by the city or county for emergency vehicles. There have been up to three week interruptions in fuel delivery during and after a hurricane. The county had a one week supply, so crews were sent out to pump out the tanks of stations with no electricity. It was replaced when the first tankers started to arrive.