Yes it will work awesomely!! The generator will already be enclosed and mostly the noise will be from the exhaust which you could mod to be quitter. You will need a larger gas meter at the place to run it if you have it at a house. Most houses only come with a 3/4lb meter and you will need at least a 2lb meter. Most likely the utility company will have to replace the line from the main to the new meter to have enough gas flow to make this work, but other then that the thing could run for days at a time with no probs.Has anyone ran light on a Natural Gas Generator thats around 40Kw's?
Also has anyone tried to enclose the generator for noise purposes?
Yes it will work awesomely!! The generator will already be enclosed and mostly the noise will be from the exhaust which you could mod to be quitter. You will need a larger gas meter at the place to run it if you have it at a house. Most houses only come with a 3/4lb meter and you will need at least a 2lb meter. Most likely the utility company will have to replace the line from the main to the new meter to have enough gas flow to make this work, but other then that the thing could run for days at a time with no probs.
but whats the reason for the use of natural gas
are you thinking the power company would tell on your 30,000w grow but the gas company will not
your house or wherever you are growing will be drawing 30,000w worth of gas campared to you neighbaer who are only drawing enuff for a stove and heater
and arnt these gennerater used during a power outage but yet yours will be running ALL YEAR LONG 24/7
if you gat that type of bread why not look into makeing your own powerI am planning on using 12 hours a day. I talked to a couple people I know in construction and they said they are made for extended run time or 12hrs a day.
Im just looking into it, trying to figure out if its worth doing or not.
A diesel generator would run me 40 dollars a day. or 1200 a month in diesel. If i was to run 30 lights, my pg&e would be 4,000 a month so i can see the savings with diesel. noise isnt an issue it would be 20 feet underground. Exhaust is what im worried about...
if you gat that type of bread why not look into makeing your own power
like a wind powered gen.
underground eh? I can see why your worried about the exhaust. Your going to have to hide the exhaust somehow. If the fuzz every scans your house/property with IR and sees hot exhaust coming outta the ground, its gonna raise a few eyebrows to say the least.
Now if you live somewhere hot and only run the genny during the day, it would be much harder to detect.
Also, natural gas costs 20 cents/m3, electricity is 7 cents/kWh around here anyways. My point being, I couldn't see you saving money going this route. You would have to figure out how many watts generated for every cubic meter burned.
One more thing, the link you posted said "minimum order of two units" just wondering if you noticed that.....
Thanks for the response..
I think the house has a 3/4 like you were saying. How big a deal is that to get changed? Dollars wise?
Also gas is more than electricity so im curious to how much i can be expecting monthly from pg&e?
30,000 watts powered by gas could cost a lot it seems like.