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re: Do you run your gas generator all night?

Posted on 10/29/20 at 5:51 am to
Posted by reverendotis
the jawbone of an arse
Member since Nov 2007
4867 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 5:51 am to
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, we’d shut everything down and take a day away from the house to give it a break.


Smart man, little air cooled gas engines aren't constant duty, they'll fail pretty early on in their life running 24/7.
Posted by MotorBoater
Hammond
Member since Sep 2010
1677 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 6:52 am to
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we’d shut everything down and take a day away from the house to give it a break.


Wrong IMO. It’s not going to get any hotter running it for hours than it will in say the first 30 min. Change the oil every couple day and rock on.
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
20591 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 7:22 am to
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Smart man, little air cooled gas engines aren't constant duty, they'll fail pretty early on in their life running 24/7.


So what were generators built to do then? They aren’t lawn mowers meant to run for an hour at a time, a generator is literally built to run all day. Most people need then a handful of times a year. Doing that or for a hurricane is literally their life.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
146214 posts
Posted on 10/29/20 at 8:48 pm to
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Smart man, little air cooled gas engines aren't constant duty, they'll fail pretty early on in their life running 24/7.




You're dumb

I've been using the same Onan gas generator every year since we got it for Hurricane Andrew....got us through many of hurricanes and weekends at the camp.

This generator is probably older than you



This post was edited on 10/29/20 at 8:51 pm
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