OT: Battery backup

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>

> On 2/25/2011 5:21 PM, C Day wrote:
> > Does anyone use natural gas powered, automatic start-up, stand-by
> > generator rather than gasoline powered?
> 
> We do.
> 
> No worries about running out, indefinite run-tim, no worries about
> gellied gas or varnished carbuerators surprising you when you need the
> thing to "just work" "RIGHT NOW". It has an automatic timer that runs
> it for 15 minutes or so once a week.
> 
> It's done it's job perfectly several times too.
> 
> It is of course reliant on the gas line.

Could you not put a check-valved accumulator tank in front of it, whereby
some sizable amount of pipe gas came in, and could only get out into the
genset...

and if the pipe supply was shut off, it would still sit in there, waiting
for the generator to draw it?

I live in a tank-propane area, so those are the terms I think in.

Cheers,
-- jra