I haven't had a chance to use one of these in production, but several customers I've talked to at packetflux have reported using a RV generator with good success. You'll need to arrange for sufficient ventilation through louvers, etc.. The exhaust can be through an extended tailpipe.
-forrest On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:14 PM Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- - Forrest
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