Gary from Robbinsville, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since September of 2018. His Generac is an 8 kW unit from the 5000 series, a compact standby that carries the essentials, and it has sat under our PowerBase Silver plan for the better part of a decade. Silver is the maintenance tier: oil and filter changes, a battery test, a transfer switch check and a run under load, done on a schedule so nothing is discovered the hard way. Robbinsville is in Mercer County, at the western reach of our service area.
Project Facts
- Location
- Robbinsville, NJ
- Service
- Standby Generator Service
- Client since
- September 2018
- Manufacturer
- Generac Model # 5870
- Rated output
- 8 kW LP / 7 kW NG
- Transfer switch
- 35 amp
- Load management
- Dedicated (Essential) Circuits
My service Tech ((Trey) did a thorough job in tending to a special issue with my older generator.
Green Sun Energy Services replied
Thank you, Gary, and Trey will be glad to hear it. An older generator asks more of a technician than a new one: parts change, tolerances drift, and the fix is rarely in the manual. The 8 kW machine at your home in Robbinsville is worth keeping properly, and taking time over a special issue is how that happens.
Standby generator questions from Robbinsville homeowners
Can the existing natural-gas service in a Robbinsville home supply a generator?
Often yes, but the gas system has to be evaluated first. The review covers the generator's BTU demand, meter capacity, available pressure, regulator capacity, pipe diameter and length, and every other gas appliance in the house -- furnace, boiler, water heater, range and fireplace among them.
What is Base Flood Elevation and why does it matter here?
Base Flood Elevation is the elevation associated with the base flood -- generally the flood with a one percent chance of being reached or exceeded in any year. For a generator it is often the starting point for working out how high the mechanical and electrical equipment has to be protected or raised.
Can the generator share a propane tank with the furnace?
Potentially, if the tank, the regulators and the piping can supply the combined demand of the generator and every other appliance that might run at the same time. It is the whole connected load that has to be considered, not the generator on its own.