What do you normally do when you experience a power outage? If you’re like many other homeowners, you may light candles or make your way through your home using a flashlight, assuming the batteries are working. You may also refrain from opening your refrigerator and freezer with the hope they stay cold enough to preserve their contents.
While those actions may not be too annoying if a power outage only lasts an hour or two, they can get old quickly if the outage continues for the better part of a day, several days or even longer. You may want to consider installing a home backup generator to prevent an extended outage from disrupting your life and lifestyle.
Plenty of things can interrupt the power supply to your home. Natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and severe thunderstorms can cause the power to go out, for example. Blown transformers and accidents can also disrupt your power supply.
When there’s a short- or long-term disruption to the power supply from your utility company, your home won’t be plunged into darkness if you have a whole-house emergency generator. An automatic backup generator sits outside your residence. The unit will be connected to a transfer switch located inside your home, making it easy for you to re-establish a power supply to your home if the power from your utility company gets cut off for any reason.
In addition to illuminating your home during a power outage, the backup generators we install in the greater Harrisburg area and throughout Central PA provide the following benefits:
Old fuse panels like push-o-matics along with Federal Pacific Electric Stab-lok, Zinsco, and Sylvania panels are not to code and should be replaced. This is because the breakers will not trip when they should and pose a fire risk due to arcing between the terminals.
The size of your generator is going to be dependent on your needs. If you want your house to be fully powered during an outage a 16Kw generator or larger should provide enough power to keep your house running. But if you need just the necessities or have specific medical needs you can use a 7Kw generator to operate a combination of a sump pump, refrigerator, garage doors, and some other dedicated outlets or devices.
