Posted on 11/13/2022 9:38:48 AM PST by karpov
Made his money utilizing fossil fuels. Smart.
It’s great to see a Mechanical Engineer who did good! May he RIP.
We installed a whole-house Briggs & Stratton 26 kW generator a year ago. When we ordered it, it was 20 kW, but they replaced that model with a 26 kW for LESS money! We added an automatic transfer switch which is REAL handy. We also added two load-shed modules for the air conditioner and the electric oven. It there is too much load when the generator is starting or running, those modules prevent the air conditioner and oven from getting power. The oven load-shed module failed recently and it was replaced under warranty. They also changed the air conditioner module because there was a bad batch of circuit boards.
26 kW is huge and should easily run the entire house.
We get some serious outages in severe wind and snow storms up here in North Idaho, so this is good peace of mind.
It runs on natural gas so we should be ok as long as King Brandon doesn’t shut down all natural gas sales in the USA or drive NG prices to the stratosphere. The probability of that is clearly not zero.
The unit runs an exercise cycle for 15 seconds once every two weeks in the winter and once a week in the summer. It also runs a longer “burn off” cycle once in April and once in September to warm it up and drive off any condensed water. Older generators run for 20 minutes every week.
So far, we’ve had one four hour outage and it was really cool to have a well lit house when most of the neighborhood was dark!
Same for us, MayflowerMadam. Whole House, automatic, standby Generac; powered by propane. Love it! We don’t have to worry about it even if we are not home. Added Power Managers that shed voltage draw for the furnace and the (elec) hot water, but we don’t notice a thing.
And the fuel to run them will come from?
I’ve owned a number of Generac’s, great product.
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