Psst! There’s an invisible force behind your heater. Yeah, it’s over there behind your lights, television and computer, too. You guessed it. It’s that super power we all take for granted – electricity. And, like many super powers, some type of “kryptonite” can put it down, leaving you in the dark.
Dark is not good. No power also means that your food starts spoiling. You and your loved ones can start getting extremely cold or hot, depending upon when that storm hits… disabling your super power electricity. Can you flush you toilet without the help of emergency backup generators?
No Power Can Be Hazardous
Lack of power can create a number of safety and health hazards, specifically for the young and the old. If you’re out of power for a couple of hours it may just be a nuisance. If you’re in a storm producing a great deal of water that needs to be pumped out of basements and crawl spaces, you’ll be out of luck if you do not have power. Being without power for days, possibly weeks, or even longer may not only be costly, but quite dangerous as well. Remember that heat and constant moisture breeds disease, bacteria and fungi with all manner of scary powers for causing human suffering. You’ll probably develop a mighty thirst, but won’t have fresh water to drink without that super hero – emergency backup generators.
Install Standby Generators
The great news is that with the installation of standby generators you can be up and running within seconds of a power failure from your local utility provider. These standby generators are better equipped to automatically switch into action than their portable generator counterparts. Large standby generators that can produce enough energy to power the entire home do, indeed, come with an automatic transfer switch that senses when an outage is about to occur and begins producing electric power immediately.
These standby generators are hot-wired right into the home’s electrical system, so there is no need to use extension cords to plug them in or gas tanks to fill up or switches to flip on. Once, standby generators were reserved exclusively for use in hospitals, television and radio stations, emergency centers, or for the very wealthy. Recent technological advances have made automatic standby generators much more affordable and fairly reasonably obtainable by many people in mainstream America. The cost for a 10 kW unit, depending upon the number of essential circuits that need to be included, would cost about $4000 plus installation fees.
Standby Generators Are More Reliable
Portable gas backup generators can be dangerous as well as hard to operate. Fuel needs to be filled in the tank, the engine needs to be primed and in many cases the engine has to be started with a pull cord, just like a gas lawn mower. Automatic standby generators operate on efficient diesel fuel. These backup generators are usually outfitted with digital controls that monitor incoming voltage from your utility company – sensing when power is interrupted and thus transferring the home circuitry to standby generators.
So, within seconds, standby generators start supplying electricity to all the essential circuits that have been chosen. This automatic jumping into action is how selecting standby generators can save the day. You could be in the middle of the year’s worst storm that blows away the local public electric grid, but you don’t have to lift a finger, brave the elements, or start the motor on your standby generators because they automatically go into action.
If you’re unsure over what size to buy, standby generators are our specialty. You will do well to call Emergency Power, as a leader in generators, its exactly the phone number your military and government calls first for backup power.
