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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 4182451" data-attributes="member: 3099">Generators burn a lot more fuel than people realize. I ran my Coleman 5500 watt during the deep freeze a few years ago and it would run just under a tank in about 8 hours. I was going to get 6 gallons every morning. I would only run it during the day and at night I was running my little Honda 1000 inverter for the gas furnace blower. The 5500 was lightly loaded only running the chest freezer in the garage and the fridge in the house, plus a few lights as needed. So it wasn't loaded up heavily at all and it still drank through the fuel. Going to fill a 5 gallon and a 1 gallon can EVERY..SINGLE..MORNING was getting REALLY..FRIGGING..OLD at the end of it. Running on propane or NG burns slightly more fuel and gets you slightly less power than a gasoline rated unit. You need to account for that.</blockquote>