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Generacs at Sam’s Club
Posted on 8/19/22 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 8/19/22 at 2:49 pm
A little fyi for anyone looking, Sam’s had 22kw Generacs In stock for $6k. I know there’s always people on here asking for them, and the dealers were pretty backed up.
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Posted on 8/19/22 at 8:35 pm to indytiger
I’ve always heard the whole house Generacs are pure shite. The portables are great but the whole house ones have always given people fits.
Posted on 8/19/22 at 8:40 pm to TDsngumbo
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the whole house Generacs are pure shite
They aren't. They're great for their intended use.
Posted on 8/19/22 at 9:23 pm to indytiger
Gautreaux’s in BR & Gonzales has 22kW’s for $5999 w/ transfer switch in stock. Also has 26kW’s w/ switch in stock.
Posted on 8/20/22 at 5:12 am to TDsngumbo
LOL....need to get your hearing checked.
Posted on 8/20/22 at 10:17 am to skinny domino
Anyone know if there ever sell just the generator without the transfer switch? I already have that installed when we built the house, but have procrastinated on the actual generator
Posted on 8/20/22 at 10:36 am to gsvar2004
Sure, any dealer should sell generator without transfer switch. That’s how I got my gen.
And it’s not so much that all whole-house Generac generators are bad. It’s that they tend to use air-cooled higher-RPM engines—that’s were the problem can be, versus water-cooled engines.
And it’s not so much that all whole-house Generac generators are bad. It’s that they tend to use air-cooled higher-RPM engines—that’s were the problem can be, versus water-cooled engines.
Posted on 8/20/22 at 11:10 am to SurfOrYak
That was the problem in the hurricane last year. We have a 32kw liquid cooled and had no problem running straight through the outage while others around were having issues with air cooled. I would not get air cooled in South Louisiana, trying to air cool something when the temperature of the air being sucked in is 95 degrees seems like a losing battle to me.
This post was edited on 8/20/22 at 11:21 am
Posted on 8/20/22 at 12:47 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
[quote] quote: the whole house Generacs are pure shite They aren't. They're great for their intended use.[/quote
A couple of years ago I was talking to an electrician that installed whole house units all around Montgomery County Texas. He was very professional and experienced. He told me that a little over 40% of the Generacs that he was familiar with failed before the hone owner ever used them in an outage.
Maybe they have improved since then but they are not as good as Kohler, Onan (Cummings) or Briggs and Straton, especially the ones with the Vanguard engine.
It HAS to start, run, make electricity and power the house for hours at a time.
A couple of years ago I was talking to an electrician that installed whole house units all around Montgomery County Texas. He was very professional and experienced. He told me that a little over 40% of the Generacs that he was familiar with failed before the hone owner ever used them in an outage.
Maybe they have improved since then but they are not as good as Kohler, Onan (Cummings) or Briggs and Straton, especially the ones with the Vanguard engine.
It HAS to start, run, make electricity and power the house for hours at a time.
Posted on 8/20/22 at 1:48 pm to Swazla
At my old house we had a 2008 or 2009 model generac 20kw. The only 2 issues it ever had was 1) the battery wouldn’t keep charged, and 2) the control unit went out. You could still start it manually, but it wouldn’t start automatically. I eventually replaced that, but never got the battery to charge so I put a tender on it and ran a chord to the nearest outdoor outlet. Fixed that problem.
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