Generac Back-up Power Supply
Jan. 22, 2010 — New York City gets blackouts. Oy, we get blackouts — we don't have to tell you, you were probably here for one of them. And even other places, like, oh, a big chunk of the Midwest and all of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, if we're remembering 2003 correctly, get blackouts, too. So, OK, it doesn't happen often, and maybe that makes this a bit of a luxury item — but there are luxury co-op and condo apartment buildings out there, and if you can afford it, better safe than sorry. Besides, we all know there's going to be a zombie plague someday, and won't you be happy that as a co-op or condo board you'd prepared for that eventuality?
With that in mind — well, maybe not the zombie part — the Wisconsin-based Generac has been producing backup generators for residential, commercial and industrial applications since 1959. Also little bitty ones for RVs, if we have any Winnebago-minded folks among us. (Winnebegans?) The manufacturer's automatic standby generators are natural gas- or liquid propane-powered backup electrical systems that within seconds of an outage automatically supplies power directly to your building's power grid. After Con Ed or your other local utility returns, the generator shuts itself off and waits patiently for the next outage. That's "outage," by the way, and not "outrage." If it were "outrage," these days? It would never turn off.
The company says its range of models and options meet all applicable codes and standards, including 2009 emissions requirements, and are the first such generators to be UL 2200-listed by Underwriters Laboratories. The enclosures have corrosion-resistant coating, and there's a 24/7 factory-trained support.
What's new under the sun is the company's line of digital controllers, which monitor utility voltage, oversee transfer switching, and have LED displays of system status and faults, such as overcrank, overspeed, high coolant temperature, low coolant level, low oil pressure and low battery. So let the zombies come. You'll be drinking nice, cool zombies with those little umbrellas in the glass, safe within walls lit and warmed by your emergency generator.
Generac Power Systems • S45 W29290 Highway 59, P.O. Box 8, Waukesha, Wisc. 53187 • (262) 544-4811 • toll-free (888) GENERAC (888-436-3722) • E-mail contact form here