Generac

[Parks 788]

At our home on Kauai we had an electrician install the proper connections to hook up our 13K Watt generator to back-feed the house in the even of a power outage or hurricane. Not sure if it is optimal but for powering the home after a hurricane but it does make a lot of sense to have the larger generator to power the home and being able to power tools and other items that may be needed.

I would much prefer to get a generator that is much more quite than what we have but the climate in Hawaii is not really conducive to a nice expensive generator to sit standby for a residence. When we move to OK we will be definitely getting a standby generator.

 

[okietool]

We’ve had a 20 kw for about 15 years. I wish I had gone with a 30.

 

[Shadowrider]

Can these things also run on natural gas?

Yes, that's how my mom's is setup. If you run good synthetic oil it's a 2 year service interval provided you don't have any long outages. IIRC they want it changed every 200 hours of run time (or at 2 years), so if you have a bad ice storm or something you gotta keep track. Running on NG there is very little combustion byproducts to foul the oil.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

Any recommendations on a different brand?

Cummins/Onan is a good brand; https://www.cummins.com/generators/quietconnecttm-series?v=3151&application=Residential Home Standby

 

[Profreedomokie]

I've never owned one but, one guy I know has one big enough for the whole house and he has had problems with it. I don't know any details.

 

[Lucky]

Does anyone on here sell/install them????

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

Does anyone on here sell/install them????

You need a plumber to install the gas line and an electrician for everything else.

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[SoonerP226]

Cummins/Onan is a good brand; https://www.cummins.com/generators/quietconnecttm-series?v=3151&application=Residential Home Standby

We have small (4KWhr, IIRC) Cummins-Onan mobile generators in our vans at work, and they work great while they're working, but God help you if you have a problem. The ones we use are designed more for RVs, so you usually end up trying to schedule work at an RV dealership, and they're in no big hurry to get you in. (And when you're out in BFE, TX, even RV dealerships that can work on Cummins-Onan gensets can be a loooong way away.)

Where I used to work, they had a big Cummins diesel-powered generator, and I gather that it was a tank, and just worked when they needed it (it was in our area, but belonged to another department, so I didn't have anything to do with it directly).

 

[Louro]

Buy one at Sam's or Costco; you need an electrician and a plumber to hook it up.

Are you sayin to buy a portable generator?

 

[Lucky]

I'm looking at whole house generac system. It is a stand alone generator that is hooked to your natural gas.