John from Freehold, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since June of 2021. The generator was installed by another company and the servicing came to us at the three-year mark. Every interval since has been kept without a gap – the three-year visit in June of 2021, the fourth in 2022, the fifth in 2023 and the sixth in 2024. Taking a machine on at three years is the useful moment: the original installer’s involvement has usually lapsed by then, and what happens next is either a continuous record or none at all. An annual maintenance plan covers the yearly visit, with the manufacturer’s standard warranty behind the machine.
Project Facts
- Location
- Freehold, NJ
- Service
- Standby Generator Service
- Client since
- June 2021
- Manufacturer
- Generac Model # 7043
- Rated output
- 22 kW LP / 19.5 kW NG
- Fuel
- Natural Gas
- Transfer switch
- 100 amp
- Load management
- Managed Whole House
Standby generator questions from Freehold homeowners
Can Freehold require a generator to sit farther from the house than the manufacturer does?
Yes. Another applicable requirement can result in greater separation than the manufacturer's listed minimum -- equipment may be permitted eighteen inches from a qualifying wall while the local ordinance requires several feet from a property line. Both requirements have to be satisfied; neither cancels the other.
Can the generator stay connected during a pressure test?
The machine has to be protected from test pressures beyond what its fuel controls are built to withstand. The fuel-gas code sets out when appliances are disconnected or isolated for testing, and the plumbing contractor follows both that code and the generator's installation instructions.
Will it work if nobody is home?
Yes, which is one of the main advantages over a portable generator. It has to be properly installed, fuelled, maintained, free of active shutdown alarms and left in AUTO. That matters most where an outage would otherwise stop a sump pump, the heating, refrigeration or a well pump while the house is empty.