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Choosing A Home Portable Generator
Portable Generator Sizing:
• A home with a mixture of electrical and gas/propane utilities tends to only need a 30 amp portable generator outlet installed to power their home. A 30 amp hookup for a home is best for a 10,000 watt portable generator.
• A home that has all electric major appliances will more than likely need a 50 amp hookup or more to power their home. A 50 amp hookup for a home is best for a 12,000 watt portable generator and up.
Home Hook Up For Portable Generator:
There are two main ways to hookup your home to a portable generator. These are installed in order to stop the generator from back-feeding power into utility grid.
• One option is called an interlock generator kit which gives you full access to every circuit in your electrical panel, but can take sometime to learn how to operate.
• The other portable generator hookup option is called a manual transfer switch. They are easier to operate, but limits the amount of home circuits you can use with a portable generator.
We see a lot of home portable generator installs. Feel free to ask us for help choosing your next home portable generator.
Where Is The Portable Generator Located?
We need to know where the home portable generator is going to be installed? Try to find out the distance from the electrical panel location to where the generator is going to be stationed when power go out. This will help to quickly estimate the portable generator home wiring install.
Portable Generator Install Details
Depending on the home portable generator install, we may need some additional details about the home project.
Another question we would ask maybe wither there is open access in the basement or is it completely drywalled? Portable generators can cause damaging electrical surges. We check to make sure you have a whole home surge protector installed in your electrical panel in order to prevent any electrical surges from entering your home and causing damage.
TradeWork is here to help and will walk you through your next home portable generator install.
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