Caitriona from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since May of 2021. The generator was installed by another company and commissioned in January of 2014, and the servicing came to us seven years later. It has been seen every spring since – June of 2021, June of 2022, July of 2023, July of 2024, May of 2025 and April of 2026 – working up from the seven-year service to the ten-year interval it now repeats, along with a courtesy visit in January of 2025. Six consecutive years on a machine somebody else installed is the whole argument for taking over servicing: the record starts the day we do, and from then on there is one.
Project Facts
- Location
- Middletown, NJ
- Service
- Standby Generator Service
- Client since
- May 2021
- Manufacturer
- Generac Model # 6247
- Rated output
- 14 kW LP / 13 kW NG
- Fuel
- Natural Gas
- Transfer switch
- 60 amp
- Load management
- other
Standby generator questions from Middletown homeowners
Does the residential building code apply to a generator?
It can. For applicable one- and two-family dwellings New Jersey adopts the 2024 International Residential Code, subject to state amendments. Structural and flood-related generator installations may therefore need review under the residential subcode as well as the electrical and fuel requirements.
Can a generator be converted from propane to natural gas later?
Many air-cooled models can be configured for either fuel, but the conversion has to follow the exact procedure for that model. The new natural-gas supply then has to be properly sized and pressure-tested for the generator before it is put into service.
Can the generator be connected to any nearby gas pipe?
No. The branch supplying the generator has to be sized for the flow and pressure the machine needs. A pipe that happens to be close by may be too small, or may already be carrying too much load. Undersized piping shows up as poor starting, unstable running, reduced output or a generator that shuts down under load.