Planning For A Home Generator Involves Understanding Your Options
Today’s home standby generators are fully automatic, self-contained and built to be permanently installed outside your home. They use an automotive style muffler and sound attenuation to limit sound to as low as the mid 60 db’s. Environmentally friendly natural gas or propane are the fuels of choice. The most popular small automatic home generators... Read More
Never Be in the Dark Again During a Power Outage
If your electricity is currently out, contact us immediately so we can help restore power to your home! Many don’t realize how much they depend on electricity until the power goes out. Take a minute, and recall the last time the power went out in your home. Do you remember specific appliances or key lighting... Read More
Understanding How Home Generators Work
How does a home standby generator system work? Within seconds of a power outage, the engine will automatically start, allowing your home generator to begin producing power. After a short delay (10 to 60 seconds) the Automatic Transfer Switch will restore power to the designated emergency circuits in your home. The home generator control system... Read More
During An Extended Power Outage, How Can I Conserve Propane Fuel?
As previously discussed in How Long Can My Generator Run?, when propane is your source of fuel for your home and generator, you have a finite source of fuel to manage. The amount of fuel is limited by your tank size. Your generator’s fuel consumption is a function of the electric loads of the home... Read More
Home Generators or Solar Power – Which is Best?
There is much buzz these days about solar power as a viable alternative power source. As a successful home generator dealer in North Georgia, I’m often asked, which is best – solar power or a home generator? The answer is, it depends – it depends on what problem are you trying to solve, why it... Read More
Kohler 14 RESA – Quiet, Reliable & Powerful!
When the chips are down, most of us want to make sure that we have the best available to back us up. One home generator system that has impressed us is the Kohler Model 14 RESA. While there are certainly smaller and larger generators, the Kohler 14 RESA in our opinion is the sweet spot... Read More
Fuel, Spark & Compression
In our earlier post, How Long Can My Generator Run?, we discussed the role of fuel and oil to keep your generator running during an extended outage. In this post we will discuss how fuel, spark & compression work together to allow your engine to start and continue to run so that your home generator... Read More
How Long Can My Home Generator Run?
This is a question asked by many of our customers. There are two primary factors that will affect the continuous operation of your home generator engine during an extended period: fuel to power the engine and oil for lubrication and cooling. In future post, Fuel, Spark & Compression, we will address the essentials required for... Read More
Be Prepared
“Be Prepared”, the Boy Scout Motto, has been repeated over and over again by many young men. As a former Boy Scout myself, and the father of 3 Eagle Scouts, I’ve heard it many times. Little did I realize at the time that I would be in the business of helping so many others achieve... Read More