Get ready for the next one !!!!

Darn, don good idea. As things stand, Hurricane Rina is showing a track to run into the area around my place on Marco Island. I thought we were through the season. Ugh!

Gerry
 
I bought the 20KW Generac w/alum. case and transfer switch for $4K, delivered to my house.
That is a good deal, if you don't have any problems with it.
 
Mine does whole house.
My dad has the 13KW unit. It is essential loads only.
He used it for several days during Hurricane Ike.
 
This will be one of the first things I install on our new house in Florida. There is no N/G service to the building....so I may have to go with an alternate fuel. :(
 
The guy across the street from me has one that I think runs on diesel fuel. We don't have any gas in the street here. I guess you could also go with propane if you wanted to.
 
Yeah.......I think propane would be the next best fuel........I don't want cans of gas/diesel laying around. It will be our secondary backup generator.....the primary one will be in our motorhome.
 
Shortly after the North East Power Failure in 2003, I installed a big generator to power my home. At that time, whole house generators were not popular and were very expensive. I bought a big a$$ generator online from Northern Tools and had an electrician wire it in to my house (transfer switch). entire cost including the outdoor enclosure was around 3k. At that time, the above type set up in the add was around 8 to 9k for the same size gas generator I installed.
I don't have natural gas at my home, and to bury a LP tank would not be cheap, so natural gas or LP was not an option for me.
With a full tank of gas in the generator, and a full tank with the porti containers with wheels (used for boats), I can get 2 days of constant use (3/4 load). In reality, I can get 3 days use because I would not be running 3/4 load all the time and would shut the generator down at night.
I don't store gas around the house, any sign of a storm I top the tank off in the generator and then get my porti tank filled up. After the storm, I just transfer the gas to one of my cars. Also, if I needed more gas, I could siphon gas from the one of many cars I have.

If you have natural gas I would go that route today, especially since the price of these generators are pretty cheap these days. The other advantage of the NG generators is, less maintenance, auto start in a power failure, auto exercising of the generator, and of course a constant supply of fuel.

This my setup
Transfer switch in the basement
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Generator in outdoor enclosure
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Generator
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Enclosure
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nice work but I wonder about locating the genny under a window, without an exhaust stack and in a closed area. Wont it be breathing it's own exhaust?
 
Exhaust stack comes out the right side

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Plus the doors are kept open when the generator is running
 
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