Whole house Generators (Generac)

[Descant]

Originally Posted by NH.Solar

Marinewife, and for anyone else with automatic whole house generators. I suggest that you change your exercise schedule to occur every two weeks, but run for at least 30 minutes.
The purpose of those scheduled runs is three fold, to keep fuel from stagnating, to keep the starter battery charged up, and to drive moistuire out of the engine oil. A weekly short run can actually cause more harm than good both becuae it doesn't fully charge the battery to the desired float condition and becuase it won't generate enogh heat the oil enough to vaporize any condensation that may have built up. Additionally, if possible set your exercise run to occur at a time when your home's energy consumption would be high, this usually means early morning or early evening. That way the energy produced by the gen during your exercise run will be self consumed in the house and be worthy

My (Dayton) genset has been exercising weekly since 2004. no problems. I've always thought the battery was on a trickle charger. I've only replaced it once. I don't know where the power goes during exercise, but we never see any evidence of a surge or other activity when we hear the genset start or stop the way it does when it goes on/off for loss of power in the street. I can start and run the genset on m y boat without hitting the switch to actually power anything, so I'm not powering anything or feed back into the grid. Why would I think my home generator is powering anything during the exercise period?

[marinewife]

My husband corrected me, the generator goes on for 20 minutes every Tuesday, not ten as my earlier post stated.

Gen Connection said 20 minutes is plenty of time.

[ishoot308]

Been without power for 12 hours now. Eversource just texted me and said power could be out for three days…..sure am loving my generator!

Dan

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

Been without power for 12 hours now. Eversource just texted me and said power could be out for three days…..sure am loving my generator!

Dan

We went out at 4am and got it back about 3:45pm.

We installed 2 x 20kw generators here. The company was supposed to commission them yesterday morning but cancelled because of the storm. Of course then we lost power at 4am with no working generators. Many calls to the electrician and the generator company later they got someone here today to get us online.

This is on top of the driveway nightmares…Been a fun-filled weekend so far!

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by codeman671

We went out at 4am and got it back about 3:45pm.

We installed 2 x 20kw generators here. The company was supposed to commission them yesterday morning but cancelled because of the storm. Of course then we lost power at 4am with no working generators. Many calls to the electrician and the generator company later they got someone here today to get us online.

This is on top of the driveway nightmares…Been a fun-filled weekend so far!

Two 20 KWS! Holy cow what are you running up there?? My single 20 KW will run everything in the house including a double oven at the same time and our AC as well as a garage with mother in law apartment above!

I am still without power and most likely will be for some time…

Happy holidays!

Dan

[ITD]

My guy came by Thursday and got me online. We didn't lose our power though. 24 kw generac

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

Two 20 KWS! Holy cow what are you running up there?? My single 20 KW will run everything in the house including a double oven at the same time and our AC as well as a garage with mother in law apartment above!

I am still without power and most likely will be for some time…

Happy holidays!

Dan

The way our house is set up electrically is a bit odd. We have 2 x 200amp panels on opposite ends. It’s a big place so it helped with wiring runs. It was wired odd to begin with, and we had to redo from there. We have 2 x 60k Samsung condensers running our split system which is our main hvac, many fridges and freezers (3 in the bar alone), 3 laundry rooms, and eventually a hot tub when our deck is done. Originally he was doing a 20kw and a 12kw, but for the small price difference it made sense to do 2 x 20kw.

[DRH]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

Been without power for 12 hours now. Eversource just texted me and said power could be out for three days…..sure am loving my generator!

Dan

WMUR is reporting that Gilford got 17" of snow. Is that about what you got Dan? Here in Meredith we got about 7" of the heaviest wet-cement type snow I can remember. Snapped a shear pin on my snowblower auger!

We lost power around 5:30pm yesterday and our whole-house (propane) generator kicked in. About 90 minutes later power was restored. Not knowing how long it would be out, I was pretty happy that our two propane tanks had just been filled last week!

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by DRH

WMUR is reporting that Gilford got 17" of snow. Is that about what you got Dan? Here in Meredith we got about 7" of the heaviest wet-cement type snow I can remember. Snapped a shear pin on my snowblower auger!

We lost power around 5:30pm yesterday and our whole-house (propane) generator kicked in. About 90 minutes later power was restored. Not knowing how long it would be out, I was pretty happy that our two propane tanks had just been filled last week!

Hi Don!

Wonderful to see you back here on the forum! Happy Holidays to you and yours!

My power came back on back on at around 5:00 pm.

Hope all is well!

Dan