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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3797428" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>My mother has a 14kw Generac with fully automatic ATS. Purchased and installed by Faith Electric. It was 2014 and cost $7145 total installed. No issues at all with it and it saved her bacon during the last freezemegeddon as she was going through chemo and radiation. It ran for 9 days straight with me shutting it down to check oil daily and doing one oil change towards the end of that blackout.</p><p></p><p>Have them come out and give you a quote. Have a couple done at least. They should check all your appliances and talk to you about what circuits you want the genset to run. One guy just looked around and said 20kw. Faith Electric plugged everything into a tablet and came up with 14kw. It'll run everything in her house, just not all the burners on her stove with the oven and A/C running all at the same time which she doesn't need to do anyway. They tested it upon installation and it did run her A/C, electric oven and one burner on the range while have some lights, TV etc. all on. It used to take 20-22kw to run the average house, but not anymore. 14kw has her with a bit of breathing room. 1800 SF house with gas heat, gas dryer and hot water. Everything else is electric.</p><p></p><p>Some notes.</p><p></p><p>1) Oil change intervals are 200 run hours (if running full synthetic oil). If you don't have a power outage this will take you 2 full years if running on NG.</p><p></p><p>2) They do in fact break it off in you on oil changes, tuneups, and maintenance. They charged my mom $175 for a battery change. After warranty is up it's quite easy to do normal maintenance yourself. They have maintenance plans, extended warranties, etc that may help you.</p><p></p><p>3) The engines are made in Wisconsin and are very durable. This one has been perfectly reliable too.</p><p></p><p>4) On long runs they will burn a bit of oil so you need to check them daily. This is normal when loaded. I had to add oil twice (about 1.5 quarts total) with one oil change towards the end. Total runtime before power came back on was 216 hours, IIRC. It ran day and night non-stop except when I came over to check on it. Mom was the only one around with lights until a couple of days went by and you could hear a lot of portables running in the neighborhood.</p><p></p><p>At the time mom bought this Generac, Kohler gensets were pretty good but their ATS was garbage. That may have changed since but it doesn't sound like it from the post above. That's why I had my mom go with Generac. Like I said the only thing this one has ever needed has been a single battery and it's probably getting due again now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3797428, member: 3099"] My mother has a 14kw Generac with fully automatic ATS. Purchased and installed by Faith Electric. It was 2014 and cost $7145 total installed. No issues at all with it and it saved her bacon during the last freezemegeddon as she was going through chemo and radiation. It ran for 9 days straight with me shutting it down to check oil daily and doing one oil change towards the end of that blackout. Have them come out and give you a quote. Have a couple done at least. They should check all your appliances and talk to you about what circuits you want the genset to run. One guy just looked around and said 20kw. Faith Electric plugged everything into a tablet and came up with 14kw. It'll run everything in her house, just not all the burners on her stove with the oven and A/C running all at the same time which she doesn't need to do anyway. They tested it upon installation and it did run her A/C, electric oven and one burner on the range while have some lights, TV etc. all on. It used to take 20-22kw to run the average house, but not anymore. 14kw has her with a bit of breathing room. 1800 SF house with gas heat, gas dryer and hot water. Everything else is electric. Some notes. 1) Oil change intervals are 200 run hours (if running full synthetic oil). If you don't have a power outage this will take you 2 full years if running on NG. 2) They do in fact break it off in you on oil changes, tuneups, and maintenance. They charged my mom $175 for a battery change. After warranty is up it's quite easy to do normal maintenance yourself. They have maintenance plans, extended warranties, etc that may help you. 3) The engines are made in Wisconsin and are very durable. This one has been perfectly reliable too. 4) On long runs they will burn a bit of oil so you need to check them daily. This is normal when loaded. I had to add oil twice (about 1.5 quarts total) with one oil change towards the end. Total runtime before power came back on was 216 hours, IIRC. It ran day and night non-stop except when I came over to check on it. Mom was the only one around with lights until a couple of days went by and you could hear a lot of portables running in the neighborhood. At the time mom bought this Generac, Kohler gensets were pretty good but their ATS was garbage. That may have changed since but it doesn't sound like it from the post above. That's why I had my mom go with Generac. Like I said the only thing this one has ever needed has been a single battery and it's probably getting due again now. [/QUOTE]
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