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How to Choose Coffee Truck Generator

If you’re purchasing an espresso machine, you’re going to get a commercial espresso machine, meaning it has, typically, the easy way to look at it.

If it has two Group heads, it’s most likely going to be 220 volts.

If it only has one group head, there’s a good chance that it’s only 110 so if your espresso machine is 220 volt, you’re going to need to get a generator that’s 220 volt.

When they sell generators, they sell them with a running wattage and a peak wattage,

and you want to have all of your equipment well within the running wattage parameters.

You don’t want to be maxing out your generator with peak wattage all the time.

It’s kind of like redlining your car if you’re in that red all the time.

It just puts a lot of stress on the vehicle that doesn’t need to be there. It’s the same way with generators.

you’re going to typically see that they’re going to have 220 volts when you’re purchasing your machine.

So when you’re purchasing your generator, you don’t want to run all your equipment at the same time and have your peak wattage in the red.

The way I think of it is that there are certain appliances that are on all the time and that you need to have constantly running, such as your refrigerator and your espresso machine.

So you want your generator, you want the amount of electricity that those units are drawing to be within the parameters of your running wattage on your generator.

Now, there are certain pieces of equipment that I noticed that I don’t run at the same time.

A very good example of that would be my blender and my coffee grinder. I rarely run those two at the same time.

If I’m grinding coffee, it’s to pull a shot, and then I’ll take the shot, put it into the frappuccino and blend the smoothie or frappuccino.

But I noticed that those two machines don’t run at the same time, and even if they needed to, I would just wait until one machine is not running.

You don’t necessarily need to add up all of your equipment and then have a generator that can handle the power of all of your equipment at once, because you don’t run all of your equipment at once.

For me, the way I do it is my hot water heater and my espresso machine and my coffee maker are my three largest pieces of equipment.

The hot water heater I run in the morning, before any coffee is made, any espresso is heated up, anything at all, and then I unplug it.

I just leave it alone. And so I allow the 2.5 gallons to two and a half gallons inside the hot water heater to slowly cool off throughout the shift.

And that’s plenty of hot water to get me through my shift.

Now, at the end of the shift, I might need to plug in the hot water heater again and make some more hot water for my sanitization sinks,

but for the shift itself, I only need that 2.5 gallons, so there’s no need for me personally to run the hot water heater my entire shift.

The other thing is, I make cold brew and I steam my cold brew or I’ll add hot water to my cold brew concentration to make my drip coffee so I don’t have a commercial coffee machine anymore.

I started off with, like, you know, the bun commercial. They call them pour-over commercials. They’re basically the commercial coffee pot.

But then, when I started experimenting with my cold brew, I found that that was way better tasting than any other coffee I ever had. So it blew my it just it blew it out of the water.

There was no question whatsoever that my cold brew coffee was a better tasting coffee when heated up than my commercial coffee maker was making.

So it completely removes the need for having those wattage out of my generator.

So at this point, I’ve now removed my hot water heater from the equation.

I’ve now removed my commercial coffee pot from the equation.

The only thing that I need to run throughout my shift is going to be my espresso machine, my refrigerator.

Periodically, I do need to run my grinder, and I do need to run my blender, but my grinder and my blender are not at the same time.

I only need one of those to be part of the equation for the amount of energy that the generator is producing.

All that being said, it keeps my wattage needs underneath 7000 even with the 220 machine, because the 220 machine is about 4000 to 4500 watts.

Well, that still gives me 2500 watts to operate a refrigerator and grinder or refrigerator blender, whichever one has the most wattage, so I still have plenty of room to manoeuvre.

So those are some kind of like generator hacks that I’ve used to be able to purchase a smaller generator.

We should talk about decibels and noise ratings, anything that’s within the 70s decibel, in my opinion, you can’t have a conversation while you’re standing next to the thing.

You need to be at least a coffee truck’s distance away from that generator.

In order to have a conversation, anything below 70, you can have a conversation next to it at this point.

Honda is the only generator that I know that makes a 7000-watt generator that’s below 60 decibels.

But for one of those generators, typically you’re going to pay four grand plus.

They’re beautiful generators, but they’re very expensive.

The other one that I was looking at that I like is the Westinghouse that looks like a pretty promising generator.

They have one that runs at 7500 watts with a peak of 9500 watts. Its decimal rating is 73 decibels. And right now they’re going for $850 that’s a great deal.

The other one that really caught my attention, a brand that I have experienced with the past, is champion. Champions done me well.

So far, they have made a lot of RV mobile truck generators. They have one right now with 7000 running Watts and 9000 peak watts, and that one only has 74 decibels, that’s running for $850, and they do have a dual fuel option.

So if you are interested in propane, they have one that runs off of propane as well as gasoline.

I think Yamahas are good generators too. I’ve owned Yamaha generators, a coffee truck, and I have not been disappointed with those. So those have been very good generators to me so far.

And those are probably the major brands that I like. I’ve had a Briggs and statin die on me, and so that’s something I won’t purchase again.

I’ve had a Generac before that was a good generator because it was loud. It was a beast, but it was loud.

I’m recommending a gas generator that has a good running wattage, low decibels. If I were to pick right now, it would be the Westinghouse,