Posted by Briar Hill Brittanys on October 01, 2017 at 08:13:08 from (199.116.199.148):
In Reply to: Standby generators posted by David G on September 30, 2017 at 19:22:19:
"Not to be rude but I can not understand the cost to use factor on a standby unit."
Hard to put a cost analysis on piece of mind.
After an ice storm in '07, and another in 08", we installed a 20kW unit, with SE rated auto-transfer switch. The power was off in '07 for 12 days. In '08 it was off 6 days. The genset has performed flawlessly. It has accumulated 220+ hours of run time. Several outages during the time it's been in operation, including a weekend long outage after a thunderstorm, but I couldn't tell you how many of those hours were exercising, or how many were operational hours.
I can still remember the NOAA weather radio reports leading up to the '07 storm..."historic and catastrophic". Words you don't forget. When the power goes off, and the genset starts restoring power, the look on SWMBO's face is priceless.
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