I can't imagine a short test run every week or so being a problem for equipment that's worth anything. Generators for irrigation systems in my area run about
800 hours per year or so. They sit outside for months at a time between uses. There's usually no need to use them from about Thanksgiving or so until maybe mid March. Most of these generators are Lima-Mac. They're three phase, 480 volt, 10 or 15 kw.
Impossible. They run for about 10 mins once a week. Insignificant in the expected life of a generator. And even if it did, it would still be the manufacturer's fault. They spec'd the eqpt and set the default weekly test cycle.
they design in a weekly test, if it killed the genset?] cted life of a generator.
Center posted, like your reply.
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The only thing that made my reply "center posted" is that I didn't trim off your usual Mormon plug. And about this you actually have the nerve to complain? And you were the poster that people for years complained about top posting and you continued.
Now go f*ck your Mormon self.
I know that you know this already but...
the Internet is overflowing with drama queens. If we listened to some of the clowns here we'd never buy any product ever again.
I have a 9-year-old 17kw NG Generac and it powers us thru the typical 3-day after-storm outages just fine. Has not failed yet.
Also have a house full of Whirlpool appliances, some over 20 years old, all are humming along just fine. And the Toyota vehicles in the driveway perform flawlessly as well.
And then there's Comcast. According to the attention-seekers, Comcast is the devil incarnate yet we enjoy perfect service from them. Comcast employees have always treated us well and their prices are the best in the area. What's not to like?
My 94-year-old parents just retired a 44-year-old Lochinvar electric water heater made in Detroit.
They also have a 62-year-old GE chest freezer that is still in service.
Sure, products fail occasionally and I'm sure Comcast has missed a service appointment or two but it's not the epidemic that some would have us believe.
Consumer grade generacr and "equipment that's worth anything." in the same sentance? My, My,My ---------
The dealers and service people who attend the forum make the claim that everybody is building similar stuff, and switching brands will not make much of a difference. I have no way of proving or disproving their claims, but my own unit has had a lot of small failures, each of which has rendered the generator useless until they are fixed, such as failed oil pressure sensor, leaking rubber part (manufacturing defect) leading to overcrank /no start, bad gaskets, etc. It has delivered 7 years of weekly testing and a total of 4 hours of actual use.
If Honda or somebody with quality engineering offered a replacement, I would immediately replace mine. I would gladly pay twice the price for a really reliable unit. Mine was $17000 for a 7K natural gas unit, and I did all the installation (gas, electric, concrete pad, etc.) by myself in one weekend.
Generac keeps changing model styles, cabinets, internal components, and specs. They have not even slightly focused on perfecting a single design and refining the functions, performance, safety, or reliability.
They have, as a single and only compliment, kept their prices fairly constant, but their service and reliability makes them totally unsuited for any really critical backup. If I leave and go out of town, I have absolutely no confidence that my furnace, sump pump, refrigerator, etc. will continue to work in a power outage, I know several Generac owners locally with the same conclusion as mine, some of whom paid $5-7K for big 16KW units with labor to install.
Thanks for confirming what I thought. Luckily I figured it out before putting $$$ into repairing that freebie one. Another factor that lead me to that conclusion was that from my testing, the only thing that was shot was the armature. A new one could be had for a few hundred bucks. Yet the dealer was recommending scrapping it and buying another on a unit that was only about 5 years old. It was possible that the service guy had better test eqpt and figured out that the stator was also shot, but I tend to doubt it had multiple failures all at the same time. So, I'm thinking the service guy knows that a 5 years, even if you fixed it, the future isn't likely to be very good. I guess they also make more money faster on selling a whole new unit, but if you're doing that only for that reason, you're not going to have many happy customers.
BTW, if you need any parts for yours, post a message here and maybe I can help you out. Still have most of the parts. I made the mistake of deciding to part it out instead of putting it on CL or Ebay as a whole unit. And what do you think the one thing is that I sold? The cabinet.... Go figure.
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