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[keelay]

Of course it would be enough to heat water.
The campers and wheelers already figured that out a long time ago
http://www.off-road.com/trucks-4x4/review/camp-shower-23087.html

[ratcityrex]

Fuck the whole iacv setup. just screw your throttle blade adjustment screw in to keep the tb open on a junk ass d15 and set it to what ever rpms you need and call it a day. Them use a old busted cv welded/bolted to a old pressure plate with a direct drive to a old burnt up welder/generator and call it a fucken day. ON THE CHEAP!

[snm95ls]

Keep in mind that it is gonna have to run at 3600 rpm or some multiple thereof.

[Joseph Davis]

Solar panels, windmills and a shit ton of batteries is way out.

No, you take the fun out of all this.

Honestly?  I'd look into mounting 2-3 extra Honda/Kia/$5 apiece at the pick-a-part alternators onto the D15 in question and using a bank of lead-acid batteries, you'd have close to 900+ watts steady state output and the batteries would soak up any sudden loads associated with current inrush when compressors turn on.  If you're resourceful about this it could be cheaper than buying and driving a generator. 

You'll probably have to drive a generator with the crank snout, if you go that route, but you already know this. 

I'm not big on generator tech, I know spinning an inductor motor will generate electricity but I do not know how efficiently it does so - meaning, I'm pretty sure they are based off of inductor motors but if there are any inherent differences in the design or if it's all in current monitoring/smoothing/overload protection shit added on to a plain jane motor... bleh.

[jagojon3]

He didn't say batteries were out of the question; just a shit ton of them 

[turbob16hatch]

i like the alternator idea personally. but i really have no clue how much power a house needs/uses. No how one would hook that shit up. 

[Doug]

Tap into your closest neighbors, solved