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Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator

  • From: Bill Woodcock
  • Date: Fri Apr 04 20:11:48 2003 
      On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Daniel Senie wrote:
    > I suspect, though I've never seen it done, that it'd be possible to set up
    > a gas genset with both a pressurized tank of fuel and a connection to the
    > mains, with valves to switch between.

Yes, that's the way it's normally done.  The input at the carburetor is
valved based upon the pressure on the utility-line side.

                                -Bill