Actually I kinda hope we lose power, so we get to put some hours on this guy.
We live in the middle of nowhere so we are always the last to get power restored. After last year's storm when we had no water (400' deep well, needs a pretty big pump) or anything for 11 days my dad finally decided to put in a generator.
It was a fun weekend project, but drilling through the house foundation sucked. Even using a big Hilti, I still went through many bits and chisels. Since the newer generators are all digitally controlled with PLC's, the control wires have to be in separate conduit from the main power wires which is annoying, so the hole through the foundation had to be pretty big.
Pouring the concrete pad also too a lot more bags of concrete than I originally estimated...
Its a pretty cool machine though, 10-15 seconds after the power goes out it starts up (propane) and switches over. Even with 2 central AC compressors, a 220v clothes dryer, well pump, and several 220v woodworking machines all running at the same time, it doesnt struggle at all and according to my multimeter it steadily keeps the AC frequency between 59.98-60.11Hz so no problems running computers and stuff.
I really want to get one of these.
