Generac 27KW Natural Gas Home Generator
Overview of my Generac QuietSource series 27KW Natural Gas Liquid Cooled Generator. This is the liquid cooled, inline 4 automotive style engine. A little out of place from other other Survival videos, but having air conditioning after a hurricane is survival in my book! 
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We had a local …
We had a local electrical company called Wiring Solutions install our Generac in Oklahoma. a week later we had an ice storm and ran for four days on the generator. Cost us about $45 per day and that was great considering I could not have put the family in a hotel for anywhere near that money. Probably one of the best purchases we have made since moving in to the new house.
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@stretch34318 Same price. But the cost per hour depends on the generator load. On average over 24 hour day, even with AC units, I’m only pulling about a 50% load, which is about 200 cubic feet per hour on that unit. With nat gas running about just a little over a penny per cu/ft, that’s about $2.50 per hour, or roughly $60 per day. That’s a lot less than a gasoline or diesel gen. And you don’t have to refill it.
Do you have a …
Do you have a different natural gas price for the generator?
I think it would cost a small fortune to run it for a week in the event of a power outage.
Close to $20K, …
Close to $20K, total installation. That was from nothing (no slab, no 2nd gas meter, etc) to finish. Having seen the install, and if I were to do it again, I’d feel comfortable doing the slab, buying the generator and transfer switch direct, and then contracting the electrical install. That route, you’d be looking at somewhere between $10k – $15k.
What did that bad …
What did that bad boy cost, all in (i.e. installed)?
Thanks for the review.
I want one so badly.
I want one so badly.
Almost never. The …
Almost never. The primary cause would be a hurricane, albeit they are rare. But in the event we do have one (as in 2007 and 2008), the power can be out for days.
Humm… Does the …
Humm… Does the power fail so frequently over there that you need a generator?
Kind Regards.
Absolutely. The …
Absolutely. The key here is that if the ATS sensor failed to sense power loss and automatically start the generator, and/or initiate the transfer, then you can manually start the generator (at the generator itself, and then use the manual transfer lever to transfer the power. Nice to have a variety a manual backups in case the auto fails. But so far, it’s worked flawlessly.
Towards the end of …
Towards the end of your video, you describe the manual transfer handle as being able to start the system manually should the automatic sensor fail. That is incorrect – it will not start the generator.
It is intended for manually transferring the load from utility to generator only, assuming that you have the generator running… it does not actually start the generator or do anything else, it is just in case the automatic transfer switch (ATS) fails to automatically transfer.
Thank you for this …
Thank you for this video, i actually work for the company, and its nice to hear good and positive feedback! Thanks!