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Batavia, IL 60510
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Standby Power Generators
The average power outage in the state of Illinois lasts six days, ten days in the United States. Battery powered sump pumps run 7.5 hours. Refrigerators and freezers will keep product for 24 hours if you do not open the doors. Many families do not even have a house key on their person anymore- they click the remote or use the keypad to enter the garage. What about heat, well pumps for water, tankless or direct vented water heaters, and security systems?
Standby Power Generators automatically start and run on engines powered by natural gas within seconds of losing power from the grid. The automatic transfer switch protects against backfeeding into the grid and the electricity produced has less that 5% harmonic distortion, compared to 15% from the grid. If you are lucky enough to be home when the power goes out a small camping type generator will run the sump pump, but will use 400 gallons of gasoline over ten days. If you can, get gasoline, because gas pumps are also powered by electricity. In 2008 3 people in Indiana died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning when their camping generator was left running in the garage overnight.
Trick question- would you rather have money or power? Serious answer- you do not have to choose! This very affordable investment will give you total peace of mind and will increase the value of your home 1.5- 3 times its cost!