New to me 2006 270 gen and ac question

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• Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 2019

  Paul, the hourly fuel consumption depends on the load put on the Genny. Kohler has a fuel consumption chart somewhere but fully loaded I would guess 1.5 gallons an hour. Not too many 270s have a genny and AC. 

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• pault1216 Member Posts: 206 ✭✭✭

  June 2019

  Thanks. I will look for the chart. My houseboat had a 12.5k Westerbeke that only burned about a gallon an hour running ac and a couple small loads. Debated about the factory gen since I could run my little Honda with the ac on at about a gallon per 7 to 8 hours.

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• skennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

  June 2019

  My 2002 has the ac pump in the aft bilge.  It's tucked up in there...hard to see.

  2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3

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• Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 2019

  I had thought that under load the 5e was somewhere between .75 and 1.0 gph 

  07' Cruisers 390 (Previous Rinker's: 06' 342EC & 01' 310FV)
  
  

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• trip_n Member Posts: 747 ✭✭✭

  June 2019 edited June 2019

  lying in the aft cabin =facing forward = up and left.
  kohler 5e = http://www.kohlerpower.com/onlinecatalog/pdf/g2058.pdf
  

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• pault1216 Member Posts: 206 ✭✭✭

  June 2019

  Thanks!

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• trip_n Member Posts: 747 ✭✭✭

  June 2019

  @pault1216 = might be of help https://rinkerboats.vanillacommunities.com/discussion/comment/113556
  

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• pault1216 Member Posts: 206 ✭✭✭

  June 2019

  Thanks trip_n. I also found this after my post-

  5KW Kohler 5EKD
  

  Fuel Consumption 60 Hz
  Gasoline, Lph (gph) at % load
  

  100% 3.52 (0.93) 
  

  75% 3.26 (0.86)
  

  50% 2.87 (0.76)
  

  25% 2.57 (0.68)
  

  
  

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