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108KW Yikes you should be able to power the whole neighborhood! Our hospital runs the whole OR, ICU, and other critical functions on 150KW.

I've got a 30KW Olympian (Cat with a perkins engine) and I could power 4-5 homes without any trouble. Even with electric water heater, well pump and heater fan I never even touch the full capacity. I went with this one instead of the 15KW because it was a good deal.

In general for figure a 2HP engine for each KW generated. (i know the conversion is ~.750HP/KW but in the real world it takes 2HP).

1800 RPM generators deliver cleaner better quality AC power, last longer and cost significantly more.

In diesel generators I was given a general rule for fuel consumption and it seems to hold OK for me. 0.7 gal of fuel per hour per 10kw. It doesn't really matter if you are using all of the power the engine will still use that fuel.
My 48 gal tank runs my generator for 2 days running regardless of how much of a drain I put on it. I don't understand it, It doesn't make sense to me but thats reality.

If that holds true for you you'll be burning over 7 gals an hour and thats a lot of fuel if you don't need it.

Thanks
Doc Robbs

Features to look for in stand alone generator
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Thanks for everyone's response. I went ahead with the B600 Woods. I do have a FEL and will use that for my ballast. I thought about a 6'cutter but a guy who is helping me with more experience advised against it given the terrain where we will be working. Anyway when I'm doing the easy clean up later I just have to make a few more passes.

Neighbors only have a very light "Cheap" (I won't give names to avoid flaming" cutters that only use shear pins. He tried cutting some weeds down on my easiest pasture (2 1/2 acres) and between rocks and roots he went through 4 pins. I really don't want to deal with that.

Thanks for the advice again. I'll let everybody know how it turns out.

about Medium duty Rotary cutter
Mowers Field and Finish
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I Got a multi switch from my dealer. Costly at ~$150 but it works. It was the only method i found to work. It takes both feeds (2 per LNB) and then sorts them out and sends the right feed to the receiver depending what channel is selected.

This allows 3 LNB (Can use multiple dishes pointed to different sats) and allows 4 receivers to be hooked up to it.

Dish Network third receiver hook-up
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