No I am not disillusioned at all, they make the best small engines I have ever used. That said as with most things you get what you pay for.
They may have changed things to work better with propane. I know there is a CHP unit being made in Utica NY, that uses a small Honda on Natural Gas to combine heat output and power in houses. Bob Ellison From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Drake Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:19 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Request for Gennie Recommendation Bob, Thanks for the heads up. Dropping valves sounds alarming. This one likely has its 400 hours, as the crew that is working on the house runs it all day to operate tools and space heat. Maybe like the man falling out of a 40 story building was heard to say, passing the 20th floor, so far so good! Are you disillusioned with Honda? If so, why? Thanks, Drake At 08:23 PM 1/16/2012, you wrote: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00FE_01CCD48C.B6F43770" Content-Language: en-us I am a reformed Honda Engine dealer, last that I knew Honda built NO engines to run on propane. It seems that after 400 or so hours they had a bad habit of dropping a valve from lack of lubrication (or so I ASSume) to the valve train I have seen 3 or 4 engines do that, and I have only seen 4 or 5 Honda engines with propane conversions. There are companies that do the conversions and just handle the warranty on their own. Just another opinion, Bob Ellison From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [ mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org <mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org> ] On Behalf Of Drake Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 6:50 PM To: al...@positiveenergysolar.com; RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Request for Gennie Recommendation I'm installing a small off grid system that has an existing generator. It is a Honda EU 6500 converted to run on propane. It is sweet. I haven't found out yet if the conversion cancelled the warranty. This would be too small for Allen's current project, but it seems like a good solution for many systems. Drake Chamberlin ATHENS ELECTRIC LLC OH License 44810 CO license 3773 NABCEP Certified PV _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org <http://www.members.re-wrenches.org/> Drake Chamberlin ATHENS ELECTRIC LLC OH License 44810 CO license 3773 NABCEP Certified PV
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