05-16-2021, 01:18 AM
(05-13-2021, 05:31 PM)Mexas Joe Wrote: Nice! How you you like it? How big is your propane tank?It cranks itself and runs every other week for about 20 mins as a test run. Haven't had an outage to use it yet. Power company came through and cut all the right of ways the week after I put the gen in. Go figure.
I read that running propane gets you about 2-3KW more juice than running NG.
Mother Fecking plumber was a no-show today. No texts either. About to Dunken-fire him.
My tank is 325 gallons. Its that size because my stove top, in line water heater and heat run off of it. Its more than electricity but I like that warm air coming out of the register istead of the heat pump cool breeze.
I'd looked it up one time, don't remember, but you're right, propane has more BTU content per gallon than natural gas since its pure propane instead of a mix of gases. When I was on nat gas, it was billed by the therm which is a little over 100,000 BTUs instead of gallons for cu ft, since the energy content varied depending on what they got. That's why you have to change out orifices between nat gas and propane.