Cross post from the Houston board-

I'm purchasing a new (to me) house in the Heights and want to get someone to look at the property to tell me what my options are for a whole house generator. The house is a 1910 Bungalow that's been expanded in a historic district so I'd like to talk to someone who is familiar with all that requires.

Also, because the question has already been asked:

I'm handy and have had a "cheap mans" version with a portable 8.2 KW portable gas generator for years. My current house has a back feed that I had installed that worked ok during Harvey/Ice storm but I could only run part of the house by shedding load via the circuit panel. I can do that but it's a pain when you are burning 12 gallons of gas a day for 14 days (looking at you Hurricane Ike) and I'm not a young as I once was as the saying goes. I want the "no fuss" nature of a NG gen with an auto transfer switch and am looking for someone who can advise on placement and cost for a constrained homesite.

TIA!

Generator Supercenter or storm guardian generator

There is a facebook group based here in Houston all about Generators. A lot of those guys have the large Duromax 13000 watt DuroMax and have sent it off to a local Propane shop called Blue Flame that adds a conversion kit to let the generator run off natural gas.

I have this same generator (I have not done a natural gas conversion however) and this thing runs my entire 2 story, all electric home, including my downstairs 4 ton AC unit. (I've added a Micro-Air smart start which drops my start up AMPs from 125 amps down to around 32 amps)

just thought I'd pass this along in case you decided you didn't want to bite the expensive bullet of a whole home generator.

How clean is the power output from that DuroMax?

pnut02 said:

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How clean is the power output from that DuroMax?

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This 13000EH is not an inverter generator so the THD is like a normal generator (10-15%). You can run your appliances and tv and computers, but your UPS isn't going to work.