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Originally Posted by jswirs
Good point. And that is why I spent the extra dollars and purchased a "dual fuel", meaning the generator runs on gasoline or propane.
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While I understand the sort of model that you are talking about; that is a smaller 3,500 watt inverter generator, that will operate on a 20 pound tank for 12 hours , many will read this as propane power = good.
Not so fast. An 11,000 watt whole home generator (a bit small for this type of system) uses 1.22 to 1.97 gallons of propane per hour (depending on load) so a 200 gallon tank will operate 81 - 131 hours (they are filled to 80%). So as you can see propane generators are not a panacea in of themselves, if you are preparing for a longer outage. Like most things details matter a great deal.