Generac

[Lucky]

Has anyone had one of these whole home generators installed? Any feedback welcome good or bad. What you would of done differently.

 

[Shadowrider]

My mom has a 14kw Guardian with the fully automatic switch. No issues in about 8 years now but it doesn't do more than the weekly exercise cycle. It's came on during a power outage a couple or three times is all, but it gives her peace of mind.

 

[hunter966]

Nothing bad at all to say about them, we’ve had our going on 2 years.

The only thing I would have done differently is to get one sooner that we did. Good product so far.

 

[n423]

Neighbor had one at our old house, worked great.

 

[Lucky]

Where did they purchase, did same company install that bought unit from?

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

We had a natural gas water cooled 21KW unit at our last house - 2008 thru 2015 - with no problems. We downsized with our 'retirement home' in 2016 and put in a propane gas air cooled 16KW unit and it has been testing just fine each week. It came on a couple times and ran for about half an hour each time. Maintenance is easy. The power is smooth and doesn't give the computers any fits.

We had the house pre-wired for it with the Generac breaker box so the electrical hookup was easy. We had a plumber hook up the propane.

I highly recommend putting in a standby generator. We lost power in an ice storm before we moved into our previous house. Power was out for about 5 days and it wasn't fun with no power. While the house we live in now was being built, we lived in a rent house in OKC and the street we were on lost power for about 3 or 4 days in another winter storm. Fortunately, our son loaned us a portable generator that kept the fridge running and the heat on. The only long duration power outages happened when we didn't have a backup generator! ...Don't know if it was karma or what ...

Woody

 

[Honey Badger]

Has anyone had one of these whole home generators installed? Any feedback welcome good or bad. What you would of done differently.

I’ve got one. 8500/5000. It’s a great generator

 

[chuter]

We had one put in when our house was built in '08, really happy with it.
Runs on propane, I think the longest it's run was about 6 or 7 hours.
Gives you a lot of peace of mind.

I do think it sucks a lot of propane if you had to run it for several days or longer. We make sure our tank is filled up before tornado and ice storm seasons.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

I used to sell their bigger commercial generators and we used the term "GenerJunk" but I'm sure their home units are good enough for their intended use. Just make sure to exercise them once a month and transfer the load.

 

[Snattlerake]

Faith Electric has our contract and installed a 15K whole house unit for us. It has electrified our home a few times for over 8 hours once during a blizzard and twice during a summer storm that knocked out power for 2 days during the steamy July and August months. It has been a good investment.