Use Yaris to make power

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by bronsin

How much gas would one of those things go through?

People who depend on generators usually have ones that run on natural gas which usually comes into the house in an unlimited supply even in major disasters, it being diffult to get 100 gallons of gas a week these things might go through when theres no electricity.

But I was thinking running a house on a 300 watt poer inveerter is low budget!

My current generator burns almost 1 gal per hour, and during the outage we ran it 15 hours per day (killing it overnight to let us and the neighbors have a rest from listening to it). As for supply, our gas stations here were up an running with not lines, so this time that was not an issue, but there is always the potential.

We're too rural for natural gas. The ideal for me would be a diesel one, since I could then use my 275 fuel oil tank as the supply. If I ever get around to importing a Yaris 1NDTV D4D engine, then that would be the perfect engine for it.

As for the inverter idea, they are fine for running a small TV, a light or two, etc, but they can not power the most important items, which are the refrigerator, and in my case, the well pump.

During the outage I did use a couple of large UPSs as inverters, where I would charge them by day with the generator and then use them at night, after killing the generator, to watch TV, charge cell phones, etc.