Jan, I like Kamil’s advice: try some other gensets with the welder before you buy one. I know Steve U. has some generators that will start up a heavy load, and some that will hesitate and give up. Any welder is a heavy load, but you will only be using the highest amp setting on rare occasions, mostly you will use 100 amps, or 125 amps, etc.
Remember, Giorgio makes beautiful stick welds using three 12v automotive batteries!! 
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It’s hard to find anyone I know who has an electric generator, and if they did, I probably wouldn’t dare borrow it in case it broke with my welder.
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All too true JanA.
Safer to capacity test an electrical generator with a portable air compressor.
For your use generator portability is a need too.
Pay out the money and step up to a big one sure enough to have the power for welding and now it becomes more than one man movable heavy.
I’ve made that mistake too. Not once. But twice. I can be a slow learner. ( Actually too hard to shake from my wants-to-be to the realities of must-be.)
S.U.
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8,5 kVA for welder powered by single phase 230V 16A fuse seems heavily oversized. If you consider that peak voltage of 230V RMS is 326V, than maximum spot power flowing through output is 5200VA. Bigger load will be switched off by the fuse
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If you all aren’t tired of these yet, here is a second video of stars, this time to the south. I’ve never seen so many satellites! Thanks Elon. 
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This got put on my youtube suggestions. A wood gas video. It claims that there is a guy in Alabama that has driven over 3000 miles on 5 dollars worth of fuel.
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Hey Tom, I know this guy in Alabama that the video is talking about. Everyone on DOW knows Wayne. I like the video even though it is so very basic in cartoon format.
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Looks the same here Bruce. I had to go out to replenish the wood rack by the front door. Snow pants, down vest, hooded fleece sweatshirt, hooded jacket, face mask and wool hat. My fingers froze after two wheel barrow loads. Warmed them up and got two more loads before they froze again. Snow isn’t just blowing horizontal. It’s blowing upward. I think I’ll just stay in.
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Did any of my northern friends see any auroras last night? Might be a chance for tonight too.
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No Marty, too cloudy and stormy here in Michigan. 
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No not here, inversion of cloud cover in our area. We need a little wind to blow it out and clear it up.
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To cloudy up here too. Heard on the radio there’s a 4 (outof 5) warning for sun storms that can affect electronic equipment.
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It was a fairly clear day here, but it was too cold to be outside. It was -26c here yesterday plus wind chill. Funny thing is two weeks ago we had melting temps. There is ice on most of the roads now. It makes for a fun drive to work.
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50 degrees N is pretty far north Kamil. That puts you north of Lake Superior here and north of every America state other than Alaska. Just in case you ever get into a trivia contest.
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although weather was clear last night, i did not see any northern light.
but i recorded one on video 10 years ago.
unfortunately it is a bit out of focus.
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