Interestling Bunning now sells a Portable Petrol Generator for $98!
This is a GMC branded one, rated at 240v 750watts peak, 550watts continues. Its also will supply 12 volts at 8 amps.

This seems damn cheap! Dumhed bought one and we were playing around with it, seems pretty good, not incredibly quiet but still good.
We connected up a 500 watt floodlight to give it a nice load, then just to see what happedend tried two 500 watt lights It handled them ok, just the engine note was a bit lower hehe, also it was hard to tell if they were each dimmer than one by itself.

Anyway for $98 you cannot go wrong! All those electric go-kart ideas people have can now become hyrbid powered for cheap!

and where else can you get a 63cc 2hp two stroke engine for under $100!!??
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I have a 160cc 2 stroke motor i got for free

Generators are very cheap right now, we just bought a scorpion for $250 generator for our home business.
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well yeah, I have a few lawnmower engines I got for free too, but that's not new from a shop

Now I just need to think of a decent use for it
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I have a 1043cc 40BHp engine I got for free.

Bit heavy for robot usage though

wanna get rid of it?

I've been looking for a small engine to run a jet boat drive unit I have
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Sure, not sure that shipping on a 1983 VW from the UK would be cost effective though

ahh, that does make a difference

Also, I have a 1600VW engine sitting around somewhere. It kinda seems dumb to use an air cooled engine in a boat, since there's so much cooling available, but it does simplify things a bit.
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