[RE-wrenches] Request for Gennie Recommendation

[Howie Michaelson]

Allan,
I have heard from a generator sales / service friend that the water cooled
Generac gennies (I believe 20 kW and up) are totally different animals
than the standard Generac gennies. From personal experience and
word-of-mouth I wouldn't touch the standard generac machines, but the
water cooled ones seem to be good machines, although I have no personal
experience with them. Not sure if they come with the integrated ATS which
have caused major headaches for me in off-grid setup.

Howie
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Howie Michaelson
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Catamount Solar, LLC
Renewable Energy Systems Sales and Service
VT Solar Electric & Hot Water Incentive Partner
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On Mon, January 16, 2012 7:25 am, Comet Systems wrote:
> Allan,
> First, I'm a Generac sales & service dealer so I have an obvious bias.
> The Olympian brand are made by Generac for caterpillar.
>
> Anything under 20KW will be residential and will be designed for short
> runs. The Generac 6KW Ecogen is very well suited for your needs, as it is
> built for long run applications and features an oversize oil pan to help
> with oil breakdown and cooling issues.. If you need bigger than that, I
> would look to a QuietSource 20KW. Low speed, long run commercial quality
> but very cost effective and well supported.
> http://www.generac.com/Commercial/QuietSource/Products/QuietSource_Series_22_kW/
>
> Let me know if you need additional information
>
>
>
>> Re Olympian (made by Caterpillar): the smallest model sold in this
>> country
>> is a 25kW, well larger than we need.
>>
>> Re Generac: while I am quite impressed with the 6kW EcoGen unit, that's
>> a
>> special model, developed for the purpose, and too small for this
>> application. I'm hesitant to use one of their standard units.
>>
>>
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