NATURAL GAS GENERATOR
Natural gas standby electric generators provide your home or business with electricity when your utility power becomes interrupted due to snow, ice or high winds. With a natural gas generator installed, you will be able to keep your refrigerator freezer running and not have to worry about losing your frozen foods. If the electrical interruption occurs in winter, you will be able to keep the blower on your gas furnace operating and thus avoid frozen water lines. Even a small unit can help by running an appliance or two along with a few lights.
Efficiency:
Natural gas generators cost 40 to 50 percent less per hour to run than gasoline powered models. Natural gas powered generators do not require any fuel to be stored at your home for their operation. Natural gas is supplied to the equipment from the house line that delivers gas to your furnace, water heater and other gas appliances. Models are available in a variety of sizes from 5 KW (KiloWatt) to 60 KW to match your electrical load.
Features:
- Automatic start: Many models offer an option which senses when a failure occurs in your electricity from your electric supplier. The standby unit starts itself and begins giving you electricity in 30 to 60 seconds. It then monitors the electricity from the street and, when it senses that the power is restored, shuts itself off.
- Exercise timers: Many units offer timers which run the unit 15 to 30 minutes each week. This keeps the starting battery charged so it will be ready for use during an outage.
- Weather proof enclosure: The generator sits outside your home in a painted, weather proof enclosure like your air conditioning unit. This cover protects the equipment from rain and snow.
- Since the generator is installed on a concrete pad outside your home, you always have the option of taking the unit with you if you should move to a new home.
- Generator engines are manufactured by companies such as Briggs & Stratton, Kohler, Onan and Perkins. These are the same reliable engines which power garden tractors and other devices.
- The units require a minimum of maintenance. The oil, oil filter and air filter should only require changing once per year.
- These units can provide you with 120 volt and 240 volt service at 30 amps, 60 amps, 125 amps or more.
- Natural gas consumption for the generator varies from 110 cubic feet per hour to 475 cubic feet per hour.
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