Originally Posted by JakeBlues
Anyone have experience with one of the Generac systems?


7 years ago we bought a house that had a 20KW Generac installed. Immediately after moving in, I needed to run a propane line to the kitchen, the convenient place was to use the generator feed. My thought was to temporary it in for testing, then I'd make it permanent. Of course, I disconnected the generator, got the kitchen up and running, and left the generator disconnected for 2 years.

Then we bought a new house and moved.

I hooked the generator back up (that had sat for 2 years untouched). Manually started it, fired after about 10 seconds of cranking. Shut it off. Pulled the main feed to the house. Generator fired right up and powered the whole house.

So, I have no experience running in a true power outage, but had no issues running after sitting untouched for 2 years.