Uninterrupted Power Supply For Your Home: How It Works

Amanda Tucker
2 min readNov 8, 2017

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With ever increasing power outages due to power grid problems, natural disasters, and general power service interruptions, more and more homeowners are turning to back up standby generators. In the past, the ability to have uninterrupted power supply was seen as the privilege for the rich but this is no the case today. By way of example, Austin has seen a large surge in backup generator interest due to living in earthquake country. Basically people have to look for other things that will meet their needs.

The concept behind emergency power generators is very simple. A standby generator unit is made up of a generator that has the size of the air conditioner and which is kept outside the house. A generator is majorly located near the main electrical panel of the house.Generators are best installed on a cement pad for proper stability. it is a transfer switch that connects the generator to the main electrical unit. Transfer switch is basically installed in order to act like a traffic cop. To understand how it works, the description below is very important; when electricity is working well the transfer switch routes power into the main electrical area. When the primary power source fails (i.e. PG&E power is no longer available), the transfer switch automatically starts the power generator and routes the emergency power to supply the main electric panel. Automatic power up and transfer is key to a complete system. Therefore ensuring that one does not have to be around in order for power supply to be continuous. The other important aspect is that this system of power supply can be sized in order to cover some parts of your home to cover all the areas in your home. Please view this site http://solaratorelectric.net/generators/ for further details.

How does an emergency power generator get its power? The major sources of power may include:propane gas, diesel as well as propane gas. However, most residential houses standby generator use propane gas. Moreover,propane gas is more economical as a tank of propane gas is able to power a good sized house for some few days. Kindly visit this website http://solaratorelectric.net/contact-us/ for more useful reference.

So why invest in a backup standby generator? The reason is this, natural calamities are prone to this area and so it may be a good thing to guard ourselves against any undesirable incidence. Fires and storms can cause multi day power outages. Therefore in case such instances happen, a backup generator is able to enable your family to operate normally. We all know that electricity is everything in our lives. Food will perish, safety issues will escalate (candles for days??), and you will need to find a way for your family to cope.

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