Wow, nice prices. I think I would have to pay double that here. If you were in an area where power failed all the time, you might want to go even deeper into this stuff. Do a google search and you should come up with a story by a fellow in Florida who got tired of hurricanes taking out his power. He got one of the Lister style diesel engines now made in India and hooked it up to a big generator head. A nice setup if you need it.
Randy -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of LWB250 Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:43 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hey Andrew I can give you some ballpark numbers for a couple of nice air cooled automatic standby systems: 8kW natural gas with 100A automatic transfer switch - around $2400 13kW with same - around $3900 These can be set up for LP as well if you don't have natural gas. That's with shipping, no installation, but unlimited customer and technical support..... If you have done any sort of house wiring and/or plumbing you can install one. It's really quite simple. I have two sump pumps in my basement that absolutely cannot fail. One can handle things unless there are torrential downpours for hours, but without electricity it would be a matter of minutes before my basement would be afloat. With a standby generator installed, I am comfortable leaving on vacations and the like, as I know that I won't come home to a flooded basement. The additional privilege of having power during an outage for the rest of the house is icing on the cake. The size of my generator is such that there is little I can't run when we're off-grid, but that's the exception for most. Being in the "business" has allowed me to get a much larger unit than I could otherwise afford.... Dan --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 <meade.m.dil...@navy.mil> wrote: > From: Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 > <meade.m.dil...@navy.mil> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hey Andrew > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 3:49 PM > I like it, but such a beast might be > more expensive than a gasoline > powered generator to purchase, and you may have to pay a > fee to someone > for installation. It would be an elegant engineering > solution though, > with no need to re-fuel. If you had an electrician > wire in the > connection so you only had emergency power for the furnace > and maybe > some lights and the microwave, you'd be in business with > maybe only a > 3kw or 5kw generator. > > -Max > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
