re: Best Home Standby Generator?

Just had a 48kw generac installed. Had heard about quality issues but couldn’t find a kohler installer in my area. Hope the generac works ok for me.

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I’ve had my Generac for 6 years.

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We've had ours for 9 years.

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It has been flawless. 22kw whole house.

It ran my whole house for 2 weeks post Ida. Not one issue

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Same. Well over 200,000 hours on it. Runs like a champ.

The people who have problems with their Generac AIR-COOLED generator are the ones who tried to run them 24/7 and not perform any maintenance on them. You just can't do that. Stop bad-mouthing the generator and take care of your shite you lazy bum.

You want to run one 24/7? Get their big QuietComfort WATER-COOLED generator. Gonna cost you in the 12-15k range but it's 1/2 as loud as the air-cooled and can/has run 24/7 on several friend's houses.

Something you don't need to find and store gallons of gas for.

Kholer… generac is garbage.

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that's right. As far as I know Generac makes good products not sure why their whole house units have so many issues.

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My understanding is generac recently started replacing steel internal mechanical parts with plastic. The newer versions with plastic parts aren't holding up as well.

The hierarchy of quality is
Cummins
Koehler
Generac

The problem with Cummins if in baton rouge area is they have one guy in Jennette (from what I hear) that services the area. This was told to me by mommas neighbor so tale with a grain of salt

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The problem with Cummins if in baton rouge area is they have one guy in Jennette (from what I hear) that services the area. This was told to me by mommas neighbor so tale with a grain of salt

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Not true. GAGE in BR is Cummins top dealer in LA and services all south LA. LINK

I only know those 3.

And also

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Not true. GAGE in BR is Cummins top dealer in LA and services all south LA.

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I stand corrected.

Tesla Gateway 2 with Powerwall

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He says do not get a Generac

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My mother-in-law’s stayed broke. Hers was about two years old and she had to replace it because it was shot. It had never been run more than the weekly testing a few times and those were never more than a few hours each. I tried talking her out of replacing it with another Generac but she wouldn’t listen. Hopefully she has better luck with this one

I was investigating a while back and the choice hands down for quality was a Cummins water cooled. 3600 rpm that would decrease to 1800 rpm depending on the load. Quiet. Efficient. It doesn’t need as much clearance as an air cooled generator which for me is perfect in a tight suburban lot. The drawbacks were the thing is a beast; larger footprint than air cooled and the water cooled start at 22kw or 24kw when my house only requires 12-14kw total. Coincidentally I believe that that was also the asking price at the time, $12-14k. Someone had told me that the rule of thumb is the install price would be about the same as the generator price, so ~$25k (or the price of a used car these days).

My plumber knows about my clearance difficulties (air cooled would never meet code) and mentioned I could get basically a portable generator with the same output as a fixed whole home and just wheel it out as need be. Converting it to NG he said is easy and the electrical hookup is straightforward. Of course you lose all of the automation of a fixed whole house generator.