Sam's Club has for its
Members: Generac Guardian Series WiFi Enabled 22,000-Watt (LP) / 19,500-Watt (NG) Standby Generator with 200A Automatic Transfer Switch (G007043) on sale for
$5499.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
tunabreath for finding this deal.
Product Details:
- Best-in-class power quality with less then 5 percent total harmonic distortion
- Mobile Link remote monitoring allows you to monitor the status of your generator
- 200 Amp Whole Home Transfer Switch
- Alexa Smart Home Compatible
- True Power Technology delivers utility-grade power quality with less than 5 percent total harmonic distortion for clean, smooth operation of sensitive electronics and appliances.
- Comes with a 10 Year Warranty (must be installed & activated by 6/25/23)
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Like an A/C heat pump it needs a concrete or composite concrete pad to sit on. You will likely need an electrician to connect it to your house and you may need to coordinate with your electric company for certain aspects of the installation like the auto transfer. Unless you have natural gas and get the conversion (I think a conversion is possible) you will also need a large propane tank installed (capacity of 100 to 250 gallons) by a propane company and coordinate with them for filling when needed/ahead of storms, etc. The tank is pretty big and needs to be within so many feet of the generator. These require annual maintenance that you may be able to do yourself or it's around $100 to $150 to have Generac do it. The 10 year warranty seems nice but 10 years of annual maintenance would be better. Finally these generators are big and heavy. I don't think you will be able to move it in place with a dolly.
I had a quote for purchase and install from a Generac dealer and installation was 30% or more of the quote. I never went through with it because installation seemed to be where they were gouging. The coordination with your power company should be free or minimal. Obviously electricians vary by area. I think the dealer had me coordinate with the propane company for install of the tank. I know Lowes sells Generacs. I would be interested in how much they charge for installation.
At the time generators we're on backorder for 6 months or more. Sounds like they've gotten ahead of the supply issues now.
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This kind of sized generator is truly meant to be "whole house." They also make selective emergency smaller generators that are meant to back up a couple of circuits. At 20kW you're looking at "I want to use my whole house when the power goes out, as if nothing's wrong."
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If you have multiple A/C units you need to put on a slow start kit so they don't all start up at the same time and overload the generator.
(Or just do like the prior owner of my house did and put in a 48 kW briggs and stratton with a 5L GM Vortec V8.)
I have a 5k watt generator that will power my house with the essentials that I spent about $500 for "all in" including so electrical work. Not the best and or the safest but in a real emergency I will have the essentials.
I also have a small sub 1000 watt solar setup with 2 deep cycle RV batteries and a 2k watt inverter, i have about a $1000 into that system.
Our regular PV system is great but it's a no-go when the power goes out (like most of them) .
Every year I spend $500 for a company to service the generator (air filter, oil change, oil filter) and be on 24/7 standby for emergency repairs.
Every three or four years I spend around $800 for major service (battery, lube points, coolant flush, clean out) by that company.
Owning a whole-house generator is just like owning another car. In fact my generator has a Mitsubishi 4-cylinder car engine inside it that is converted to LP. Note that using natural gas on an LP engine will require even more modifications and expense.
Outside of a winter event 15 years ago, we've never lost power for more than half a day and that's pretty rare. I have some solar here for minimal backup but it's mostly used for novelty purposes.
You must really be concerned because that's a pretty steep bill.
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We also have 8k watts of solar I'm not sure it's a "good investment", our solar is grid tied. We also have a small 2k watt inverter generator that can keep our refrigerator & freezer going for 8 hrs on a gallon of gas.
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