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My neighbor in Concord spent $3,200 on a standby generator and still lost power for 4 days last winter
I live just outside Concord, NH, and after the ice storm in December 2023, a bunch of folks on my road rushed out to buy whole-house standby generators. My neighbor dropped $3,200 on his, plus another $800 for the propane hookup and permits. Then we got that windstorm in March and his generator ran fine, but his well pump circuit was on a panel the electrician never moved over, so he had no water for 4 days anyway. I've got a $650 dual fuel portable and a manual transfer switch I installed myself, and I keep 20 gallons of gas rotated plus a few 20 lb propane tanks. It's louder and I have to go out in the weather to pull the cord, but I've never been dark for more than an hour. The thing people miss is that a generator is only as good as what's actually wired to it. Has anyone else here had a transfer switch installed and found out later that half their house wasn't on it?
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paulw633d ago
Reminds me of my uncle Ray up in Loudon. He had a transfer switch put in back in 2015, ran the thing every fall just to be safe, and felt like a genius. Then one October storm hit and he sat there in the dark because the breaker he needed flipped was in a sub panel out in his garage that the guy never tied in. He was running extension cords to the fridge from a little 2000 watt Honda for three days. His wife still brings it up at every cookout. Point being, you can do everything right and STILL miss one dumb thing.
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