The Long Lines sites I've visited in Colorado at that altitude had
diesel generators but they were also not off-grid. I know the comm site
at Almagre Mountain was a huge remediation issue with the diesel tanks
there.
Check out the Cummins Onan 5.5HGJAE-2144. Since it is designed for RV
type applications it has a dedicated exhaust port.
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Sean Heskett wrote on 9/9/19 16:13:
Hello fellow borg members,
We will be building an off grid (solar) tower site at 10,000 feet MSL
that receives over 500 inches of snow and has a typical settled snow
depth of 10 feet. (I know, we are crazy, but people need internet lol ;)
Because of the deep snow it will be necessary to put the generator
inside the telecom shelter that we are building, otherwise it would
get buried. It also needs to be propane because at that altitude and
temp diesel fuel will gel up and refuse to start. At other sites we
have typically used a Generac Ecogen 15kW propane generator. Everyone
I talk to says "you can't put a generator indoors" but in this case I
have to, and this isn't living space this is a telecom shelter on the
top of a mountain. The Ecogen seems un-good for this application
because it doesn't seem to have one small exhaust port, it's the whole
side of the unit.
So i'm looking for a propane generator that is:
1. 5kW or bigger
2. has 2 wire start (it needs to be smart enough to handle the choke
and throttle etc. to start when i close a relay)
3. can be installed inside the shelter
4. is super reliable because i don't want to visit this site in the winter
any ideas??
Thanks,
sean
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