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Installing a Home Back-up Generator
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" Ron Ford is here from Kohler power systems to tell us a little bit about the generator that we've installed here now. There's a lot of different reasons why people should. Consider having a generator right absolutely you consider we have a lot of wind storms ice storms and hurricanes. The brownout situations that California experienced especially in certain regions like California where you do have power outages and you do have. Brownouts but. You know Indian in New England where we are right now very often you have winter storms that leave people stranded without power for three or four days right absolutely have a lot of trees really. I It takes a lot of time getting know -- the lines back up think exactly and the ice storms that we've seen in the midwest in the last two years anywhere anyway are lots of reasons why you would lose power there's also a lot of reason why you need to. Keep the power on people working from their houses."
" That's right the government tells us that 22% of the population works out of their house so tell us also a bit about what we have here okay. What we have here is a 22 kilowatt generator or 22000 watts now that's enough for a mighty big house right. Yes in most cases it is when you're dealing with a 5000 square foot house though it it tends to get a little small Right actually what we do is we only do. A portion of the house what the homeowner homeowner considers. the essential loads refrigerator freezer sump pump well pump even some lights security systems yeah. And getting the furnace going absolutely and exactly exactly so 22000 watts and it's powered by what. This has powered by natural gas it could be powered either by natural gas or LP propane. And we also make them that are powered by diesel. What are some of these things we're looking at here This is the intake . were resilient natural yes and from the street goes into the carburetor. And then burns inside the engine turns the engine end and which underneath on the back where the alternator is that -- all senators that produces the electricity. All right. Up here is a control box which has all our gauges on it and and it has the safety shutdown so if this were to happen lose oil it would shut down before it would burn up you don't have to come out and turn this thing on and crank it yourself if you have a power outage very good point the whole feature of the system is that it's completely automatic. It works whether the homeowner's there or not get a sense a brownout condition. Or blackout condition and that comes from a transfer switch that's located by the electric panel OK so the transfer switch is installed right inside the house. And you are saying it will sense if the power from the grid stops absolutely and it'll turn the generator on right and then when the utility returns it shuts the generator on. Now what to two quick questions what about cost and what about noise. Cost depending on installation how much installation has to be involved with digging up pipes and everything else. Looking at a range of somewhere between nine and thirteen thousand thousand dollars listed would have guessed And what about the noise aren't they awfully noisy things yeah good point we do a lot of insulation -- the you see foam rubber on the back we try to really condense the noise within the box itself. OK and see there's baffles in the box right from the top and it's a pretty tight shut Ron thank you very much thank you about -- Bob."
