Thank you Jesse. It came at the perfect time for us. 😊

Welcome to the channel and thank you.😊

Because we don’t have the solar panels up as of yet, the generator has been amazing. We use the generator to charge our batteries, then the inverter sends regular household power to the house. Generator automatically runs every 3-4 days when the charge controller senses the batteries are low. Most people that have come to our house don’t know we are off grid.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska well love that. Thank for giving a bit more detail. Just at episode where your dad is wiping dust from the foundation.

Thank you Margaret, we feel so blessed for this generator. Have a great day.

LOL! Thanks Holly! Yes, he was definitely like a kid in a candy store 😁 We’re both really excited about it - it feels like things are starting to come together. Now we just need a house 😊 Have a great day!

Thank you 😊

Thank you

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Thank you.

Thanks - it was a great deal 😊

Can’t wait to hook it up and power the house.

Thank you

Thanks Kathy, good luck with the conversion and hope to see you roaming around Alaska soon.

Thank you

Thank you! We’re definitely excited about finding this generator👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

We’re super excited to get it to Tok and start using it.👍

Just like to say I am a new subscriber love your You Tube channel! 👍👍👍 By the way nice hair cut. Ryan.

Welcome to the channel Mike and thanks for the sub. Glad you enjoy our content. Next spring we’ll be starting framing.

Can't wait!

Thanks we’re super happy and excited to move forward. 😁

Wow, we feel honored to be at the top of your watch list with channels of that caliber. Thank you. 😁

Thanks 👍 The tractor has been one of our best purchases 👍

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska I am sure. We are in the bush with no roads or trails so a bit hard to get things up here. best two purchases was a newer Ski Doo Tundra and a Kawasaki teryx side by side. Well aside from the property that is. lol Love your videos. Do not comment much as we watch it on the TV 99% of the time. We hope to pass through Tok this summer. We have not had the time to travel much. That changes this summer. 🙂 Keep posting the amazing videos.

We will be doing batteries and solar down the. We’re just excited to find such a great deal. Thanks for the comment.

It was one of those deal that only comes around once in a blue moon. Super excited.

Yes it does Nick. We can’t wait to get it over to Tok and actually use it. 😁

That’s a great idea! Thanks for the tip.

Obrigado. Hope that’s right. 😁

i have a 100kw standby at my house but i have a load bank infront of it and bank it once a month 😁

Yes, wet stacking is bad and I run a 20kW single phase diesel generator here in the UK that rarely sees more than a 9kW combined load, so I built a Heath Robinson, but electrically safe, load bank from two 9.5kW shower heater element tanks in parallel that I run mains water through and run it for an hour or two every so often to at well over 75 percent load. This gets some proper heat into it and helps negate the time it's running at a low load. It's really a bit too big, but if the neighbour wants to contribute to running costs he could share its output if the excrement hits the fan ;) A good find, I hope it gives you long service, all the best!

Wet stacking is worse because it causes excessive oil burning too. 10 to 15kw would be plenty

Thanks for the recommendation. 😊

Thanks Larry.

Good advice. We were able to determine that the generator is producing usable power prior to purchase. Had a generator I purchased not produce power so I was sure to check that.

Diesel is almost $6 up here and is starting to hurt a little. Costs are going to continue to go up and I don’t look forward to the consequences.

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska but you guys are planning right - redundancy power or alternatives that you are building. I’m a newcomer. I’ve been watch bingeing you guys the past few days. Brilliant! Love ya both:) Keep rocking it:)

Wow! That’s a lot of info. We were able to get a good deal on this gen, so we’ll use it until it breaks down or we can afford something better. Thank you 😊

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska from about 1980 till around 2000 I had a 120000 watt battery bank - i Iive in a rural area and the grid was built in the 1950s and was never upgraded - till around 2000 - there were two 8 guage copper clad lines that ran from the substation 7 miles away - They had 30 to 50 yrs of Western Union splices along the line lol - so the lights just went out often - many of the older people still had there Delco farm 32 volt light plants and appliances from when there was no grid out here - Rea sent power out here in the 50s from town - in the end I got ahold of twelve 500;amp.two volt cells and a 20 kw true sign wave FCC class A inverter 120/240.volt - The generator I used to charge the Battery's when the grid stayed down after ice storms and hurricanes was a 50 kw - it charged the battery's In 4 hrs - every 4 days it charged the battery's through a solid state SCR! swicher charger - with what I know about power production I could come up with that system - fuel wise it's the most efficient - Our power stays on most of the time now so I sold that system after hurricane karmtrina

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska half my screen on my phone is cracked so I might be repeating my self here - if your machanecal this is good knowledge - this is done on sail boats often - On eBay you can get 3 hp diesel air cooled engines - you can mount a truck or car altanator on it - car altanator and truck alternators have good out puts down to 2500 RPMs - Instead of running the engine at 3600 to 4000 RPMs you can lower it to 2800 RPMs - that gives you 1.5 to 2 hp - a 12 to 24 volt altanator generates 385 watts at 15 or 30 volts per hp input - so that's around 450 watts for a car altinator or ,750 watts for a truck altinators - if you need more power you can go with a larger single cylinder engine ,- You have to use a two belt pulley or a four Inch racing pulley on the altanator - to efficiently transfer the power - also with automotive pulleys the v Grove that accepts the belt is not the same size as the standard 1/2 inch A belt - I just had a machine shop cut the groves in the pulley to accept the standard a A belts - I just use a altanator off a 1989 astro van - you have to mount the Altanator pulley to pulley so the fan turns the right direction - the advantage of setting up as I stated is you can often achieve a 10:1 over all effficency that means 1gallon of fuel to 10000:watts of generated power - delivered to the battery's - When you charge battery's off an AC generator it's in efficient - if the charger demands 1000;watts input the out put at 12 to 24 volts as a result of dropping the voltage on a high efficiency switcher charger is roughly 1000 watts in and 660 watts of charging power out - so even with an efficient charger there was 340 watts lost - If you generate the power at 12 'to 24 volts - you would generate 720 watts to get 660 watts so the loss is 60 watts - that raise your charging system higher than 10:1 - If you look up Balmar marine charging systems they cater toward sail boats - theres is generally high end charging equipment - sail boats are limited to fuel while crossing the oceans - so they go hybrid - My power was knocked out for a yr once and I just used a 3 hp gas engine to drive a car altinator and charge 3 100 amp deep cycle battery's daily - You can look on you tube at set ups also - if you want to control the altinator out put manually get a 100 Ohm 100 watt ohmlite varible resister -most truck and car field voltage is about 4 volts - Also if a car altinator is rated at 100 amps that rating is for one minute - Most can only handle 30 amps continues or 450 watts continues at 12volts! Large truck altinators can handle 50 amps at 12 volts continues or 750 watts

Our generator is in the shop as we speak getting a remote start installed on it and a full checkup to make sure it’s ready for service. It’s going to be amazing once it’s up and running. I don’t think anyone can go wrong with having a backup generator for emergencies.

5kw can power way more than you think. If you get a transfer switch that can isolate circuits, you can run everything but the big loads. Dryer, electric water heater, etc. Well pumps and gas appliances would be perfectly fine. You want to be able to run the generator at at least 50% load to keep fuel from glazing the cylinder walls.

Not sure. I guess we’ll find out. 😁

Send me an email at wildwoodoffgridalaska@gmail.com and I can give you the details.

We haven’t got that far yet. We’ll be using the generator to charge batteries and for additional power that may be needed.

Not sure what it is, we haven’t tracked it.

We haven’t hooked anything up yet so I’m not sure how long it’ll last.

I’ve never notice the pumps change to winter blend but I assume they do.

Kerosene mixed with diesel can work quite well

Video of the generator hooked up to our solar system is on our channel page.

We have tracked fuel consumption accurately. Over the winter the generator ran every 4 days for 10hrs to charge the batteries. We consumed approximately 300 gallons over the 6 months of winter.

This one can be wired for 3 phase or single phase.

Thank you 😊 we appreciate all of the ideas and thoughts that our subs give us.

It will be nice to have a reliable source of power for anything we made want to do now or in the future.

28kw? That's enough for 2 homes in my locality. In summer when it's 50c outside it will take one of them for my home only if i turn on all the air conditioners (3x 6ton) 72k btu for each floor with an area of 1500sqft.

When we’re all said and don’t we will need Diesel fuel and propane to run everything.

28 kw is actually still too big, probably. You don't want to underload a diesel or you'll have severe oil burning issues in a couple hundred hours.

Right! I can rebuild this and still be under what I’d pay for a new one.

Tok doesn’t really experience enough wind to justify wind generation. That coupled with the amount of trees surrounding the property, it just doesn’t make sense for us.

Wind generators are unreliable at this point - the wind will comstantly change directions and the prop stops turning - in the oilfield we tried using them on repeater microwave stations along mountain ranges in remote areas - Other than the out put was unreliable there were tons of turbine failures constantly

Yes, it has a coolant heater. 😁

@@wildwoodoffgridalaska Those generators get run once a month for about and hour or two. They also get load tested, I believe annually. They are meticulously maintained and are kept in nice warm rooms. The only downside is they may not get the best fuel, I work on the tanks that supply the generators and fuel usually ends up going bad because it sits so long. The government has them replaced every so many years and if I remember correctly this one came out because the power demand for the building changed. They only ever get used for testing and power outages like the earthquake of 18. Also a note, make sure you put an anti siphon valve on that above ground tank. You don't to spring a leak and loose all your fuel!

Good info, thanks for that.😊

We now have a battery bank and solar panels that will be hooked up next summer.

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