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James Daulton

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Anybody have any experience getting one of these installed? I see a 20Kw Kohler I can buy for $4,050. What I'm struggling with is the install cost. I've heard from a company that does everything a total of around $10k, I've heard from an electrician that the plumber + electrician would be like $3k - $4k. Am I really looking at roughly $10k to buy and install one of these things?

 
I have a neighbor that has one that he will plug into his house. Not sure what the size is, but he had an outlet installed so he could move the thing from his garage and plug it in and go. It's not automatic, but it would work if needed.

 
Mr. Ected said:
I have a neighbor that has one that he will plug into his house. Not sure what the size is, but he had an outlet installed so he could move the thing from his garage and plug it in and go. It's not automatic, but it would work if needed.
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I'm more talking about this big box that goes next to your house and kicks on automatically if the power goes off.

 
James Daulton said:
Mr. Ected said:
I have a neighbor that has one that he will plug into his house. Not sure what the size is, but he had an outlet installed so he could move the thing from his garage and plug it in and go. It's not automatic, but it would work if needed.
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I'm more talking about this big box that goes next to your house and kicks on automatically if the power goes off.
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I get that, I have a friend that has one of them too, his came with the house so I don't have any numbers on it.

Just giving an option. The neighbor's is big and it can cover all of his 4 Br. house and everything inside without any loss.

 
Both Lows and Home Depot have these units and install them. Prices depend on what your house power usage is.

Check out their web pages.

 
Had a 16k Siemens standby installed a few years ago. Hired an Electrician and he subbed out the gas work. Total was about $6500. I'm in New Hampshire.

In your area, a larger unit, today's prices, $10k probably not far off the mark.

 
I'm contemplating one of these as well.

Minimum would like to run a few lights, fridge, stove, and fire the tankless water heater when needed so I may be able to get by with a portable. Anyone who has this can comment on how useful it's been or not?

 
Just got a transfer switch set up to cover my pumps, heat, lights, some stuff, fridge for around 7 maybe 8k installed and with the BGE meter change.

Haven't had it kick on yet.

 
gianmarco said:
I'm contemplating one of these as well.

Minimum would like to run a few lights, fridge, stove, and fire the tankless water heater when needed so I may be able to get by with a portable. Anyone who has this can comment on how useful it's been or not?
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Have a 6000kw portable generator. Have a permanent transfer switch installed to the outside of the house for quick connect.

Cost me about $900 for my total setup. Have had it about 7 years, have used it every year at least once here in Michigan. Runs all my lights, outlets, TV, waterpump, frig.

Total godsend.

 
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yep, $10k+. Especially if you're looking to run everything off it. We looked closely at one that connected to the gas line and had the auto switch, between the unit, gas work, & electrician our quote was 12k. pass.

 
Just purchased a portable 10,000 Watt generator that can run on either gas, natural gas or propane.

Hoping 10,000 is enough? Any opinion on a portable vs fixed?

 
BroncoFreak_2K3 said:
gianmarco said:
I'm contemplating one of these as well.

Minimum would like to run a few lights, fridge, stove, and fire the tankless water heater when needed so I may be able to get by with a portable. Anyone who has this can comment on how useful it's been or not?
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Have a 6000kw portable generator. Have a permanent transfer switch installed to the outside of the house for quick connect.

Cost me about $900 for my total setup. Have had it about 7 years, have used it every year at least once here in Michigan. Runs all my lights, outlets, TV, waterpump, frig.

Total godsend.
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6000kw or watt? 6000000 watts is a lot.

 
We had a 20KW natural gas Generac whole home generator with automatic transfer switch installed last July. Total with everything was $8900 plus a few hundred for town permits, I'm in central NJ so I thought that was a pretty good price, I had received quotes as high as 12.5k from some installers for the same unit. It hasn't really been put to the test yet as I don't think we've had a power outage for more 10-15 minutes in the last year but it has come on within a few seconds every time the power has gone out so no complaints so far.

I have a portable gas generator that can run most of what I need, so I probably wouldn't have shelled out the coin for this except my basement can flood fairly easily if the sump pumps don't run and I don't trust the battery backups in an extended outage or if I'm not home to run extension cords. Once you've had a foot of water in your basement 9K seems pretty cheap to keep it dry, having heat/ac during a power outage is just a nice bonus.

 
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Fat Nick said:
avoiding injuries said:
You're talking about a Whole Home generator vs one with a manual transfer switch.
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Yup...this. Whole Home can certainly be $10K+ depending on the job.
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This. I looked at this some time ago and got quotes. Some guys on Long Island were quoting me around 15k all in. If you buy the generator yourself (try northerntool.com), and sub out the electrician and plumber yourself, you can probably be around 10k or less.

Likely will do this in the next couple of years.

 
I had a Generac put in a couple of years ago that will run the whole house. I also had to have tanks put in for the propane. I think the whole thing cost around $9,500. It seems to work great. Power goes off, there's a 15 second delay, then the generator comes on.

 
Wow - some of you spending serious loot for something you hope ya never have to use.

Getting this 10,000 watt portable generator that can work on three different fuel types for under 2k - installed. Electric, plumbing, switch box -,everything.

 
if you have it avaialble i really think getting the natural gas hook up is the way to go automatically starts runs on something you do not have to worry about filling up and keeps you going take that to the bank bromigos

 
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