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Where we live power goes out occasionally so I keep a modern 2.8kva inverter generator which is enough to power my office/internet and a few core household item
by Gustomaximus 3y ago
Where we live power goes out occasionally so I keep a modern 2.8kva inverter generator which is enough to power my office/internet and a few core household items.
I was looking at powering the entire house more completly and looked at one of these: https://www.scintex.com.au/products/tractor-pto-generator https://www.scintex.com.au/products/tractor-pto-generator
Basically you can connect this to the back of a tractor via PTO and you get significant power generation for a reasonable price relative to buying the equivalent standalone generator. This assuming you have a tractor... don't we all?
If someone was interested in backup powering a whole house type thing there is regularly older tractors going for cheap and those engines are really built to work. Might be worth considering vs a car engine.
- walnutclosefarm 3y agoWithout question, if you've got a tractor you can rely on, I would get a PTO-driven generator for backup. Even a little 30HP diesel tractor will power a 15kw generator, which is big enough for almost any household as backup. Farms typically have the grown version of these (if your small tractor is 100hp, as is the case for farms around here, no reason not to have a 50kw backup generator).