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Home generator
We are in our new house now for about a year and my wife thinks we need a standby generator to power the house during a power outage. An auto-whole house generator would be nice but not willing to pay that much. Thinking of a PTO type, I have a hand full of tractors that would do the job. 10 or 12KW would be big enough. It would be just for the home-no other buildings. What do you think and what works for you? How reliable are those box store generators?
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Re: Home generator
The hog house and turkey guys might be a good source of info on the PTO generator. They used to be popular. I don't know anything about them, myself.
Box store generators - I don't know. If you need a generator, you need it and can't take a chance. They need to be run periodically, maybe once a month or once a quarter or whatever. What fuel? Own tank? On natural gas line? Fuel can get stale or one could run out in a long power outage.
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Re: Home generator
Thanks Jim, I'm staying away from the box store generators and have a 12KW PTO generator coming. I plan on keeping a small tractor here all Winter to push snow and run the PTO gen-set if I need to. It is ice storms that will take the power out for long periods of time around here. Beans are done around here and about 30% of the corn to go.
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Personally have a 15KW, PTO, my understanding is you need about 2HP per KW. I went with a PTO gen, because I figured at least one of 4 tractors would start and I didn't need another 'one trick pony' engine to maintain.
Larry
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Re: Home generator
Just the other day I ran my new PTO 12KW generator for the first time. That was my thought too, 3 or 4 tractors around to do the job.
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Re: Home generator
Hi, This is Mark.
A home generator will mean that it will serve as a backup to the municipal power grid providing your electric services.