[CTSARA] Fw: Generators

[jon at giciman.com]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Perelstein <jperelst at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:36:59 
To: Jonathan Shapiro<jon at giciman.com>
Subject: Re: Generators

One cylinder at 7kVA??  Wow.

You may want to resend this to everyone, it's very interesting and might wake up some of the people who think that they can work with 2kVA.

Jon
KB1QBZ

--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Jonathan Shapiro <jon at giciman.com> wrote:

From: Jonathan Shapiro <jon at giciman.com>
Subject: Re: Generators
To: "Jon Perelstein" <jperelst at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 8:37 PM

I installed a one cylinder Winco generator, 7 kVA, which I bought from North East Generators 24 years ago. It runs on natural gas. It is installed on concrete blocks in my basement and exhausts outside via stainless steel piping. A window exhaust fan kicks on when the generator is running via a solid state relay in parallel with the fan switch.
I would like to get a larger unit outside- 20 kVA to run the whole house. If they get too big they will outstrip the gas supply.

It is hard wired into my house with a built in transfer switch and a sub panel for the protected circuits.
It was primarily to protect the basement and power the sump pumps, which would only be needed in a big storm.
There are folks who install sump pumps, and forget the power goes out when the pumps are needed most
This generator has saved me numerous times and while it runs when the lines come down, it ran for 6 days after a Northeaster about 1995 or so.
During this storm it ran for 30 hours.

It runs:  2 sump pumps, 1 refrigerator, bedroom and hall lights, outside lights, and I can turn on the toaster oven or the coffee maker as well. It also powers the furnace.
Survival was easy.

Stay Dry
Jonathan  Shapiro
AB1HI