Buying A Generator For Shows?

[Art]

Our 20kw unit is an Onan I think, it is diesel. My little one is a Honda EM, 5500 watts I think. Honda (and I suppose Generac and Yamaha) make a smaller series that are pretty good also.

With any of them, but especially the gasoline models, if you are not going to use them for a month or so, run them dry when shutting down so the gasoline will not varnish up the carb, and most definitely use Stabil in your gas that you store. With diesel, use store-n-start (diesel form of Stabil) in your tank. We run the diesel every two weeks for an hour or two with a load on it to heat it up and force any moisture out. Every couple of months, I crank up the gas one to charge the battery.

Want to talk noisy, I still have a 3kw communications generator from the Korean war, by today's standards it makes more noise than a dump truck, but still works. I don't use it anymore as my guess is you need to run it on leaded gas.

Art

[Iron Pounder]

We bought the batteries from a place that just sells batteries and they are blems (which mean a sticker or something that is no big deal is gone or torn). I think it was just over 100 for the pair out the door. I think that might have been a 20% discount over walk in without an account though. They work good for us and are multi function ( camping). I see a ton of the little Honda gen and some type of knock off which seems to be as quite and I would guess a bunch less money.

Without a generator we get to set up in areas they wouldn't allow us to set up if we used one so might look into that.