Propane is the way to go.

SKD,

Sorry...Mine was only the 5,500 one. Here she be

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...245&lpage=none

The Lowes version and the Home Depot version were close to identical, however the Lowes had the Briggs & Stratton engine. Consumer reports had them both as the "Best Buy"

Holds a bit of gas and runs for about 8 hours at my load. Got the gas stored in the shed for the mower/snowblower so I'm set. 'Bout 10 gallons reserve and 5 in it.

Hey...BTW....works GREAT for hedge trimming. No running the extension cord from inside the house ;)

Great for camping too....if the neighbors don't mind noise :err: :err:

either that or get a combined heat and power system installed in your house and you'll never have to worry about power going out ever again.. as long as the natural gas is running, you're set.

of course one of these runs like 30K installed, so the generator might be the way to go....
personally, I'm with Slingah, whip out the candles and the ghost stories and wait till the lights come back on!!

Mine is basically the same thing, it worked awesome and ran a good 10 hours on about 4 gallons of gas, not to bad considering I was keeping two refridgerators going...Going to set it up like you did and tie it right into the fuse panel, candels are nice but losing a couple hundred dollars worth of groceries is no fun, anyway, very happy with the way it worked . Mine has a subaru motor and while you can certainly hear it, its not so loud that its unbearable..So now its put away till the next storm...I cant wait........

Salty's right
 

about the fuel thing....
i ran a Lister Generator ...every day for five years
it was a huge 5 cylinder diesel ....for running the well pump
and utilities.. i went to mexico every week to buy diesel at half price..
then you back pump it from your secondary tank to your main tank.
The machines usually work... but how you mange your fuel needs
is what makes it easy and nice. The thing about diesel is its storability
feature ...doesnt go bad and isn't as flamable as gas.

Just think Bill , in the fall you can blow the leaves off your new generator using the noisy leaf blower. That ought to put you in Tim the Tool man heaven! :)