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Residential Generators

Your home is a busy place and a commercial-grade automatic home generator keeps that rhythm going by providing dependable protection during unexpected power outages. Home generators provide worry-free emergency power to support your electrical needs for days, or even weeks, within seconds of an outage. Power is then supplied directly to your home's electrical circuit breaker box. After utility power returns, the generator shuts itself off and waits for the next outage. Home generators operate on either the natural gas or liquid propane gas already feeding your home and sit outside just like an air conditioning unit. No matter your home's power requirement, AvCo Electric is dedicated to being with you every step of the way. We offer on-site consultation, design, and installation of automatic home generator systems.

Although the use of a portable generator is possible during a utility power outage, it is not always as advantageous as a permanently installed auotmatic home generator. During a utility power outage, an automatic home generator provides these key advantages over a portable generator:

• The American Red Cross recommends permanently installed standby generators as a safer way to provide backup power to a home than a portable generator.
• With an automatic standby generator properly installed outside, your home is protected from deadly carbon monoxide poisoning that is a much greater risk with portable generators.
• Running on the home's natural gas or LP fuel supply, it is less expensive to run than gasoline and does not need to be refilled.
• They start automatically within seconds of a power outage, and eliminate the need to haul a portable generator outside or run extension cords throughout your home.
• They provide protection 24/7, whether you're home or away, and they turn themselves off when utility power returns, so there is no need to monitor the unit during an outage.

Transfer Switches

In the event of a utility power outage, the transfer switch - working in tandem with the generator - automatically starts the generator to restore power to the home, whether you're home or away.

Although the generator creates the power, the transfer switch is really the core of your generator system. It is an electrical panel that allows you to safely connect a generator to your home's electrical circuits and is permanently installed near your main circuit breaker panel. It constantly monitors incoming utility power and determines when a true power outage is occurring, switching from utility power to emergency generator power and back again when utility power returns. Options include transfer switches that provide power to only essential circuits or every circuit for whole-house coverage, and some allow for prioritization of optional circuits or load shedding, such as heating and cooling.

Remote Monitoring

Wireless generator monitoring systems provides remote monitoring capability for convenient indoor observation. By adding this option, a generator owner can: observe generator function, set certain operation parameters, and receive maintenance reminders.