I’ve had a few Champion generators and like them. They’re fairly quiet and the company is accessible, not some generic no-name Chinese company with no way to contact and no support and really bad English in what little literature they have. Champion puts their 1-877 number right on the unit. I’m sure their stuff is made in China but you can buy replacement parts from them, unlike most China stuff.
I’ve got a Champion 4500/3650 and just found a propane conversion kit for it for $80.
https://www.vpowerequipment.com/lpg-conversion-carburetor-kit-for-champion-3000-generators-3201-1/
They also have natural gas kits. Gasoline doesn’t store forever but NG/LPG do. The LPG kit is a three fuel kit, gasoline, NG and LPG. The NG kit is gasoline and NG.
I could get a 500lb tank of propane and run this thing forever. Of course the noise would attract the zombies.
I’ve got 6 - 20lb propane tanks and have been meaning to get them all filled. We’ve got a Big Buddy heater we use on occasion. If electric went out for a couple of weeks due to an ice storm, including in town, there would be no buying gasoline. Having that LPG kit plus full tanks would be a life saver.
This area is known for ice storms(freezing rain/sleet) that can accumulate 2 inches of ice on all surfaces. Might be a once in 50-100 year thing but it does happen. We can also get extreme wind and in both cases, going without electric for two weeks can happen.
“””I could get a 500lb tank of propane and run this thing forever. Of course the noise would attract the zombies.”””
I think people just need to do their own preparations and worry less about the movie scenes of a post-apocalyptic world, if the end of the world happens there will be plenty of time to adjust to it mentally and emotionally in terms of shooting and killing, tactics and armed patrols, booby traps, and improvised explosives, sniper rifles and all the other sexy stuff that a lot of us like so much (me included).
I think the primary mental image should be something like an extended national hurricane, mostly people trying to pull together with plenty of looters of the usual type in some areas as people flock to the shelters and camps, the kind of looter guys who get run off if you shoot at them as they look for valuables in empty houses and sparsely occupied neighborhoods.
If we ever get to where all of America’s ability to supply camps and shelters and the ability to start the rebuilding process ends then we on this thread will all be completely different people and will already have an entirely new set of answers and mental attitudes.
We don’t need to make that our starting point for keeping our families safe and comfortable.
There will be plenty of warning before the zombies who are literally starving start migrating, and life becomes a movie of kill or be killed.