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Amazon has Champion 10,000/8,000-Watt TRI Fuel Portable Natural Gas Generator (100416) for $1061.65. Shipping is free.

Walmart also has Champion 10,000/8,000-Watt TRI Fuel Portable Natural Gas Generator (100416) for $1061.65. Shipping is free.

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Product Features:
  • Operates on natural gas, propane, or gasoline, plus natural gas and propane hoses are included
  • Power up the 459 cc champion engine with the handy rocker switch, battery included
  • Track voltage, frequency, session run time, and total run time to monitor output and track maintenance intervals, plus a multi-colored LED indicates CO shutoff or fault
  • Gasoline: 10,000 starting watts and 8000 running watts, propane: 9000 starting watts and 7200 running watts, natural gas: 8750 starting watts and 7000 running watts and engine oil is included

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Amazon [amazon.com] and Walmart [walmart.com] have Champion 10,000/8,000-Watt TRI Fuel Portable Natural Gas Generator (100416) for $1061.65. Shipping is free.

Note, this offer is slightly lower than a Frontpage deal from March of 2022.

Product Features:
  • Operates on natural gas, propane, or gasoline, plus natural gas and propane hoses are included
  • Power up the 459 cc champion engine with the handy rocker switch, battery included
  • Track voltage, frequency, session run time, and total run time to monitor output and track maintenance intervals, plus a multi-colored LED indicates CO shutoff or fault
  • Gasoline: 10,000 starting watts and 8000 running watts, propane: 9000 starting watts and 7200 running watts, natural gas: 8750 starting watts and 7000 running watts and engine oil is included
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Model: Champion 100416 Tri Fuel Generator

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Wow, edgy comment.
No, your statement is not true. I'm pretty sure they're not going to ban natural gas anytime soon. Besides the fact that a good portion of the country heats their homes with it, the country produces somewhere around 38% of its electricity with it. My utility ran new gas lines in an 80+ year old neighborhood two years ago, pretty sure they're confident in getting a return on that investment. As for gasoline, the automobile market is turning toward electrification, this is true. What's not true is gasoline being banned. Besides the installed base of ICE cars that will last for at least two more decades; boats, snowmobiles, lawn equipment, propeller aircraft, etc., etc. all still have an installed base that require gasoline for the foreseeable future. As far as I can tell, you can't run this generator on wood and the washing machine remark is kinda outta left field. Finally, you didn't mention propane, so I will, also not going anywhere anytime soon, with its installed base of forklifts, construction equipment, rural home heat, bbq grills, portable heaters and on and on. Do continue to live scared of minor, incremental progress in the world's fuel use though.
How is that a weakness...it's an 8000W generator, you can't get 50A from an 8000 running watts generator at 220V...basically Ohms law. You would need an 11000 running watts generator to get 50A.

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MaroonPocket778
03-17-2023 at 10:34 PM.
03-17-2023 at 10:34 PM.
This is the best non-inverter generator IMO that runs on NG. The gasoline wattage is great too.
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03-17-2023 at 10:44 PM.
03-17-2023 at 10:44 PM.
Quote from MaroonPocket778 :
I can run my 5 ton unit on my champion 7000/9000 with a soft start kit over a 30A generator breaker.....

Nice, recently bought the 100520 8750-Watt Champion and would like to do the same. Going to get the motor snorkel natural gas kit just in case it's an extended outage. I keep an 8000btu window unit because my wife says she'll be sleeping in a hotel if the AC goes out in the summer and I'm to cheap for that. I'm more worried about the deep freezer and furnace.
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Sifka4
03-18-2023 at 10:52 AM.
03-18-2023 at 10:52 AM.
Was almost set on tri-fuel, but that Westinghouse deal is basically half the cost for the same capacity.
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03-18-2023 at 01:29 PM.
03-18-2023 at 01:29 PM.
Quote from workerant :
Wooden stove is being ban, natural gas is being ban, gasoline is being ban, and your washing machine is on the chopping block too.

This generator is using all the fuel source that is being ban right now by the government. Is my statement true?
I noticed this comment is a near exact word-for-word copy of what Sean Hannity recently said during a segment on his show.

Is that where you're getting these ideas from or is it just a coincidence that you both use the same talking points?
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03-19-2023 at 06:56 AM.
03-19-2023 at 06:56 AM.
This is the worst deal I have ever seen. There is like 5 generator deals on here. Don't buy this
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aliencds
03-19-2023 at 07:01 AM.
03-19-2023 at 07:01 AM.
I have a dual fuel model but would have loved to have natural gas. Should I sell mine and get this do they sell a converter for the propane?
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robertson136
03-19-2023 at 07:06 AM.
03-19-2023 at 07:06 AM.
With military discount this duramax 13000/10500 is only like $10 more.


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03-19-2023 at 07:45 AM.
03-19-2023 at 07:45 AM.
I still recommend to everyone to consider the Pulsar12000w dual fuel and add the Nash natural gas conversion kit. Still comes out cheaper than this when it's on sale. It's a beast and much quieter and more powerful than the Firman. I had that one. Hated it. With the pulsar on NG I hooked to a 50amp interlock and and could run 4 ton AC just fine.

Champion is a good brand but if ur gonna do it, go big
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03-19-2023 at 07:47 AM.
03-19-2023 at 07:47 AM.
Quote from workerant :
Wooden stove is being ban, natural gas is being ban, gasoline is being ban, and your washing machine is on the chopping block too.

This generator is using all the fuel source that is being ban right now by the government. Is my statement true?

I wonder if this generator will run on woke liberal book burning power.
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03-19-2023 at 07:55 AM.
03-19-2023 at 07:55 AM.
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No, your statement is not true. I'm pretty sure they're not going to ban natural gas anytime soon. Besides the fact that a good portion of the country heats their homes with it, the country produces somewhere around 38% of its electricity with it. My utility ran new gas lines in an 80+ year old neighborhood two years ago, pretty sure they're confident in getting a return on that investment. As for gasoline, the automobile market is turning toward electrification, this is true. What's not true is gasoline being banned. Besides the installed base of ICE cars that will last for at least two more decades; boats, snowmobiles, lawn equipment, propeller aircraft, etc., etc. all still have an installed base that require gasoline for the foreseeable future. As far as I can tell, you can't run this generator on wood and the washing machine remark is kinda outta left field. Finally, you didn't mention propane, so I will, also not going anywhere anytime soon, with its installed base of forklifts, construction equipment, rural home heat, bbq grills, portable heaters and on and on. Do continue to live scared of minor, incremental progress in the world's fuel use though.
Read up on California. It's the only state that's dumb enough to ban fossil fuel generators in the coming years claiming solar generators are enough. You could do a solar battery setup but you'll be down $5000 before you can even touch a $400 2000 watt inverter. Not to mention the bulk and battery weight.
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03-19-2023 at 07:57 AM.
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Just curious if anyone knows the answer, why is NG and LP always rated lower than traditional gas? If it's weaker combustion properties, wouldn't just an increase in pressure (e.g. more NG/LP pumped in) solve that? Just trying to wrap my head around it. If it's capable of higher wattage why is it limited when on NG/LP? Thanks in advance for any insight. I've always wanted to hook one up to my NG line for emergencies and have "unlimited fuel" but don't want to leave ~12+% capacity on the table.

My guess is that these generators are designed to run on gasoline. Although you can adapt them to run different fuels you cant change the compression ratio of the IC engine.
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Just curious if anyone knows the answer, why is NG and LP always rated lower than traditional gas? If it's weaker combustion properties, wouldn't just an increase in pressure (e.g. more NG/LP pumped in) solve that? Just trying to wrap my head around it. If it's capable of higher wattage why is it limited when on NG/LP? Thanks in advance for any insight. I've always wanted to hook one up to my NG line for emergencies and have "unlimited fuel" but don't want to leave ~12+% capacity on the table.
I suspect it has to do more with efficiency. E.g. does putting more gas in a 4 banger automatically increase HP or does switching from a regular to premium really increase HP? At the end of the day it's probably about how much o2 and fuel you can jam into the cylinder and your not really jamming o2 in as it's probably naturally aspirated and natural gas and propane occupy more space which means less room for o2 to flow in naturally.
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03-19-2023 at 08:40 AM.
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Quote from workerant :
Wooden stove is being ban, natural gas is being ban, gasoline is being ban, and your washing machine is on the chopping block too.

This generator is using all the fuel source that is being ban right now by the government. Is my statement true?

Government propaganda is the ultimate fuel source.
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03-19-2023 at 09:37 AM.
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A couple of thoughts:

Power: when it comes to generator use case, sometimes less is more. When you are stuck at home during extended outage, it is initially nice to have a large power output, and everything works, and no comfort is sacrificed. But then you start running out of gas. You don't want to run out of gas. Large generator means large idle consumption, so even when you turn off all the unnecessary loads, you still use a lot of gas. This is the point when you start thinking: "perhaps if I had a smaller generator, I would have not ran out so fast"

Inverter: non-inverter power source is not good for two reasons: 1) you can damage motors and electronics, and that will happen at the moment of an outage, e.g.: when you absolutely don't want to damage your motors and electronics. I had a generator using which my computers won;t work, because UPS units would not recognize it as a good power source and immediately switch to batteries. 2) non-inverter generators must always operate at RPM corresponding to 60Hz. That means that at idle they would have to work harder than they must. You waste a lot of gas compared to inverter generators, especially at low loads, and that happens at exactly the time when you don't want to waste gas.

Tri-fuel: that is certainly the way to go. Gasoline goes stale very fast because they poison it with ethanol these days. Clear gas cost an arm and a foot per gallon. At any rate it lasts perhaps a year, perhaps two, then you must use it off. Natural gas/LP has distinct advantage that you can store it for decades. LP is not ideal, unless you live on the farm and have a large LP tank, the BBQ gas tanks will run out very fast. Best way to operate generator is some combination of gasoline, followed by quick-connect to natural gas.

Also, tri-fuel: factory tri-fuel generators are overpriced. Best way to go is buy a gasoline generator and install snorkel kit to effectively convert it to tri-fuel. I have not seen generators on the market which are both tri-fuel and inverter (perhaps I was not looking hard). For myself, I chose to get an inverter generator and make it tri-fuel. This way I get all benefits of inverter and also have an option to switch to nat gas source
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03-19-2023 at 10:15 AM.
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I wonder if this generator will run on woke liberal book burning power.
Yes, I suspect it would if the books are burned in a wood gas generator [wikipedia.org] and the wood gas is fed into the engine. It would also be possible to make ethanol, which could be burned in the engine, from the books by fermenting the paper. See also Colin Furze's video on his wood burning lawn mower [youtube.com] and NileRed's video on making toilet paper moonshine [youtube.com].
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