home generators for back up?

[Fisherman]

I didn't see anywhere in this thread mention of the system for a generator hookup where you have an electrician meet up with a Hydro worker at your house, they disconnect your power and remove the meter head, the electrician adds a small ring behind the meter to which you can plug your genny in when you have a power failure, and Hydro reinstalls their meter head. It all takes just a few minutes, and when the power does go out and come back on, if you are running a genny there is no problem with backfeeeding. I believe the cost is well under$2k and the good part is it is an approved alteration, not some fly by the seat of your pants job cause you are out of power .
John

I'm sure you can get a properly installed transfer switch for much less than that.

[wolf]

been twenty years or more but in one of my past lives as an electrician I used to disconnect the "hardwiring " from water pumps, furnaces and any other appliances and feed them from regular plug in cords. With the new style "rental" furnace scams it might be a questionable practice however.
All you had to do in a power outage was run an extension cord to the pump, furnace, etc and plug them in to the cord instead of the outlet on the wall....

That is the way it's done at the farm
Right on!

Originally we had a sub panel and separate generator. It was a bit clumsy opening up certain identified circuits, We looked at a propane generac system but that was approx. 9k installed even though we are on natural gas. In the end we updated the generator with a 7800w model and a generlink at the smart meter.
Much simpler and effective for about $1800.

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[pinepointer]

I didn't see anywhere in this thread mention of the system for a generator hookup where you have an electrician meet up with a Hydro worker at your house, they disconnect your power and remove the meter head, the electrician adds a small ring behind the meter to which you can plug your genny in when you have a power failure, and Hydro reinstalls their meter head. It all takes just a few minutes, and when the power does go out and come back on, if you are running a genny there is no problem with backfeeeding. I believe the cost is well under$2k and the good part is it is an approved alteration, not some fly by the seat of your pants job cause you are out of power .
John

It's called a GenerLink. I used one to connect my portable generator and it worked well as long as you had enough gasoline to fuel the generator. Close to about $1k plus installation. Traded it in when I bought a permanent natural gas stand-by generator from Port Electric in Port Perry, who sells and installs both systems.

[BIG MAC]

Good Chilly Sunday Morning, think this topic has been discussed before but for anyone wanting a Generator package check out the TSC Stores, they carry Generac and sell them cheaper than the dealers can buy them. Volume buying I'm sure and some models came with the automatic transfer switch. if you have natural gas or a big propane tank get them so they can hook-up to those sources.

[Fisherman]

About Generacs, look twice before you buy. We have a 11K natural gas unit at work that lasted a measly 3 years. Of that time it had maybe 50 hours of real use. It crapped out last monday during a power outage. Mechanic came by and said it was fried. Personally I'd rather go with a Honda or Yamaha home unit.

[jaycee]

About Generacs, look twice before you buy. We have a 11K natural gas unit at work that lasted a measly 3 years. Of that time it had maybe 50 hours of real use. It crapped out last monday during a power outage. Mechanic came by and said it was fried. Personally I'd rather go with a Honda or Yamaha home unit.

A friend of mine is on his 3rd Generac generator in as many years, he runs them on propane to power his Maple Syrup operation in the bush, this last one just packed it in last week and he is getting another. Fortunately they have been covered by warranty and replaced by it.
The units are large I believe they are around 10 K.
When they are running , they are great , provide all the electricity he needs for lights, pump in his filtration system and his Reverse Osmosis system, but for some reason or other it is the computer that packs it in.