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Originally Posted by KevinW
Why Bill? I have a borrowed Generac XG4000 and like it, but I made need something a little bigger for my place. Was going to look at craigs list after everyone gets power 
I just finished making a L14-20 12/4 SOOW cable for my well pump, going to test it tonight if I do not have power. |
Sorry, I was posting from my phone and couldn't get into details. I am assuming Paul is asking about a non-portable standby unit.
My parents had a 17kw LP permanent generator installed after Irene. Was never used aside from the weekly exercises. Ran a well pump, one furnace, fridge, a small LCD tv and a handful of flourescent lights (as there's no reason to be wasteful during an outage).
Burned out the brushes after ~90 hours of run time at very low use. After talking with the electrician who did it (who does a lot of installs) he said he's had a rash of brush failures in this and similar models. Generac's fix is new brushes and for the technician to dial in the distance between the brush and hub with washers as it probably wasn't right leaving the factory. This is apparently a common problem.
Note I am not talking about a portable Generac.