Good Job sir looks good. On those lifting eyes where the holes are you get some plugs to keep out mice and bugs on Amazon. The cost was cheap for that protection.
@ not bad at all……took me three days working 3-4 hours a day, minus the slab. Took another day to form and pour the slab. The biggest time stealer was spent trying to connect to Mobile Link, finally had to buy a range extender, worked perfectly.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@domaleons Just put the tank on the exhaust side of the generator, but at least like 3 feet away, or whatever your local codes are. That slight breeze of warm air will help keep the tank warm
@@dan8220 Modern aluminum wire made from 8800 alloy doesn't have that corrosion problem like the old alloys, as long as the connections are made up properly etc. I still use No-Al-Ox on exterior wiring even though it's not code required. Indoors, it's not necessary.
Good Job sir looks good. On those lifting eyes where the holes are you get some plugs to keep out mice and bugs on Amazon. The cost was cheap for that protection.
@@kc5hgv thanks I’ll look into that
Nice job! Noise means nothing when you don’t have power…..I just installed mine. Straightforward instructions…..looks good!
@@kerrytodd3753 Thanks! Right, that noise don’t bother us when the power goes out. Was it difficult to you? Thanks for watching my video!
@ not bad at all……took me three days working 3-4 hours a day, minus the slab. Took another day to form and pour the slab. The biggest time stealer was spent trying to connect to Mobile Link, finally had to buy a range extender, worked perfectly.
Good Job Bro !!
nice job.
is it a twin engine or a single?
@@NicholasCosentino-j9q I think it’s single
@@domaleons It's a V-Twin, about a 30 horsepower engine.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@domaleons Just put the tank on the exhaust side of the generator, but at least like 3 feet away, or whatever your local codes are. That slight breeze of warm air will help keep the tank warm
@@dan8220 Modern aluminum wire made from 8800 alloy doesn't have that corrosion problem like the old alloys, as long as the connections are made up properly etc. I still use No-Al-Ox on exterior wiring even though it's not code required. Indoors, it's not necessary.
Put the panels on
How’d I do?
@@domaleons looking good Dom
When you turn it on manually did you have to have the transfer switch off ?
doesn't matter
Oh boy, the stuff you can buy, when you have lots of money.
Can’t hear ya! 😊. All panels were off. Nicely done.
@@andrewsquire9892 thank you
Maybe if you put the panels on before you walked away before you tried to show the actual noise level
@@amirharris473 I believe I did it both ways to hear the difference
Ok you didn't tell us any thing either, a joke
With panels on it its half that loud