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Old 06-11-2021, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by keepsake View Post
The 1800 rpm ones are 1/4 the volume of the cheaper 3600 rpm ones. If you want it to be reliable and run when you really need it -- don't get a generac. Gen- are known to fail when you need them most.
There are 5 Generac standby on the street where my NJ house is. Over the space of about half a mile.

We get power outages fairly frequently, and once every two years, we get a multi-day one.

Not a single one of these Generacs has failed when we needed it most. In fact, mine ran for days after Sandy. I changed the oil two days in. I have literally had zero issues with it.

I also work with an Electrician who is a Kohler dealer but services all types of Standby gensets. He tells me he gets more calls on Generacs. I then asked him what's the proportion of calls on Kohler vs Generac? About the same because there are about 10x more Generacs than anything else.