FINALLY got a working generator!

[oregano]

So on Wednesday I exchanged one Harbor Freight generator for another. Then it took me two days to break in the engine. Of course, on Friday it died with just 50min of running the air conditioner. So I took it back, got my money back, and headed to Grants Pass where I had bought my Cummins. By the time I got there the heat wave had rolled in and I was hungry, so I ate at a casual sit down dining place and then checked in to the hotel next door.

While I was trying to sleep I decided to check availability of generators at the building supply store. (A local one, not a Big Box one.) Turns out they don't even carry Cummins anymore. Then I remembered seeing a Cummins generator at a Camping World RV sales/service place in Redding. So I checked their Medford location online and sure enough they had one.

The next morning I had to wash my clothes, and the laundromat I wound up at has a stupid prepaid card system that had to be explained to me by the only other person doing laundry at 6am on a Sunday. Later it was off to Medford. Sure enough, I got the generator. I went back to Grants Pass and canceled the third night I bought at the motel since I was headed back home today.

Got back around first light and started the generator up for an "engine break in", then I went to lunch. So I've had my AC on since 1pm and it is now 3pm. The Cummins of course works fine. Turns out it has a fuel filter I didn't know about, and the earlier one had been run until the fuel filter clogged solid and the engine cracked. At least now I know that Camping World services them.

So, FINALLY have AC again. And to think I deliberately insulated my home with the goal of minimizing use of AC and heat. Sigh.

 

[JayCee]

Yaay for AC during heatwaves,glad you scored a generator. Been searching for a good used Honda myself , Hopefully above 4500 watts. Had fantasies about a propane one but they seem yo be particularily rare these days. Even better a electric start. But not holding high hopes for that . But am not , off grid in anyway yet. But did paint part of the roof with the most sun exposure bright white . Seems to have helped

 

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But did paint part of the roof with the most sun exposure bright white . Seems to have helped

I helped a bloke up in the tropics do that, it was a massive roof and took us weeks including all the prep but it did knock a few degrees off the temperature. It wasn't much fun up there doing it though.

 

[Aspychata]

We had our membrane on roof washed, and recoated, made a big difference.

 

[Hazel_1914]

The local Harbor Freight had some engines for sale at cut rate prices. They were 3hp, four-cycle single cylinder gasoline engines and had been returned without being damaged, by people who are not mechanically inclined.

Those might be a good idea to figure out repowering a generator for you.