Quote Originally Posted by joms View Post
I looked into the economics of using a generator and damn, even if I'm only going to run this 3x a year (1 to 3 days per blackout), it would cost me around P5,000+ in gasoline per day! I thought it over and i think I will remove my need to power an aircon.

In this regard, my nominal watts would run at around 1800watts while my max will hit around 2500watts.

If this is the case, I am now looking at the following as my choice of generators:

1) Honda EP2500CX (2300nominal / 2500max) = gas cost would be P1940/day
2) Elemax SH3200 (2500nominal / 3200max) = gas cost would be P1870/day
3) ???

At this point, I would like to get the best 2000watts/2500max generator that is within my budget (P65,000). Maybe I can look into getting a diesel generator so that I won't need to worry about the carbon build up in the carburator. (and diesel is said to be safer than gas). Push button starter would also be nice so that it would be easy for the girls to start the generator (in case im not around). What other generators are in the same league with Honda/Elemax?

Is there also a generator wherein if you only use 50% of its capacity, the fuel consumption would go down?

Thanks
these past few days nun nag brown out ang sinubukan kung gamitin na genset to test the efficiency is yung 6.2kva na gasoline genset.. the nine liters of gasoline lasted for 6 hours hangang tumirik... or 1.5li per hour.. if compute natin for 24hours... nasa Php 1872 per day.. using a 6.2kva genset

sa estimate ko yung 2.5kw namin or 3.2kva would consume less than 1 liter per hour of gasoline...