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Old 10-22-2019, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by karostay View Post
They need to be run every month
My standby generator self runs every week for 20 minutes. One time someone shut the gas line off to the generator. It had to be restarted manually. There were a few steps, first one was I had to find the key to the cover box. Hubby was working his long hours as usual. But it does give comfort, takes 3 to 5 seconds to kick in and even the television doesn’t seem to notice the power transfer.

We had a bedridden person home alone once when the power went out in the winter for a long time. The temperature in the house fell dramatically and she could not even ask for help. Since then we have our standby.