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Thank you electric co for giving my Generac a 30 min test this evening, definitely more comfortable about next week now.
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I’ve had mine since the big freeze and it hasn’t had to come on once yet except for its routine exercising. I made “one call” to one call plumbing, electrical and air and they came out today and did a 2yr routine maintenance checkup. We cut off the power to the house just to test it and everything ran smooth. I keep hoping I’ll get to see it in action one day so I know it wasn’t a waste of money.
I have a genny but it is always a pain to deal with. The generacs are nice but always seem to need service. In a pinch, and if you don’t want to spend 8-16k on that, an easy solution I came across (think it was a convo here with @foos) is a high power inverter. Hook it up to your car battery and power the essentials like… the fish tank and freezer because that’s where I keep the fish food.
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Actually service mine myself 2 months ago. I was saying electricity went out for real foe 30 minutes and it did its job.
I have a genny but it is always a pain to deal with. The generacs are nice but always seem to need service. In a pinch, and if you don’t want to spend 8-16k on that, an easy solution I came across (think it was a convo here with @foos) is a high power inverter. Hook it up to your car battery and power the essentials like… the fish tank and freezer because that’s where I keep the fish food.
This is great for late nights when you don’t want to pull the generator out. I have a super cheap tank oxygenation set up - car battery, harbor freight inverter, air pump with a large air stone.
If I need to plug in chiller/heater needs to be plugged to a larger inverter obviously.
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I never worry about air its temperature that scares me.
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That's also where the beer is. However, keep the beer cold isn't the issue in a winter power outage hahaI have a genny but it is always a pain to deal with. The generacs are nice but always seem to need service. In a pinch, and if you don’t want to spend 8-16k on that, an easy solution I came across (think it was a convo here with @foos) is a high power inverter. Hook it up to your car battery and power the essentials like… the fish tank and freezer because that’s where I keep the fish food.
