1 Comment March 18th, 2009

Whole house generators?

babanugee asked:


I live in hurricane country in Texas…recently spent a good deal of time w/out power. Most of my neighbors had Portable Generators that allowed them to run a fridge, TV, few lights, few fans…but they had to refill gas like crazy. And with power being out so widespread, gas was hard to find anywhere!

My question is…I know there are failover generators that are supposed to run on natural gas and automatically take over when power goes out and it can run the whole house…but I don’t know ANYTHING about them.

Can anyone give me some advice…what kind of questions should I be asking myself? What brands? Size? etc? I’m totally in the dark and just looking for a point in the right direction.

Thanks in advance for the guidance!

Kathryne

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One Response to “Whole house generators?”

  1. Irv S Says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Edna

    Yes. Try Kohler.
    (Natural Gas and propane models available.
    Use of Nat. gas might require a service upgrade.)
    A 15 -17KVA unit will run most homes.
    (In Texas, you might have to skip the A.C.).
    You will need an automatic Transfer Switch if you
    want it to take over automatically.