About 20 KVA, for domestic and home business standby use. New preferred, but good, low hours used considered.
Weatherproof enclosure not needed as to be installed in a purpose built brick outbuilding.
Push button electric start required, not auto start.
Reliability, and user serviceable at least for minor services, are the most important features.
When I was fifteen I had a part time job at a chicken hatchery just down the road from our house, my first job on a Saturday morning was to run the backup generator.
The backup generator was a huge diesel set off a ship, one of the bosses was an ex-merchant navy engineer and had set it up. As we were no where near the sea it was coupled up to a huge round corrugated iron water tank to cool it.
So eight o’clock every Saturday morning I had knock the mains supply off, then start the donkey engine and get it turn the seven cylinder generator engine over with the decompressors open, then bring each cylinder in one at a time until the main engine was running then knock the donkey engine off and switch the changeover to bring the power back on in the hatchery using the gen set supply, letting it run on the generator for half a hour, before closing the generator down and switching back to the mains supply.
Whilst I was doing this the alarms connected to the gaffers bungalows sounded, letting them kno that I had arrived at work, unlocked and had knocked the mains off ready to run the generator.
Can you imagine anyone letting a fifteen year old do that unsupervised these days?
My school year was the last that could leave at fifteen and I had actually started working at the hatchery when I was fourteen, so as far as they were concerned I could just be treated like any other worker because I could have been there full time. Over the summer I got a job in a factory working unsupervised on a machine cutting half inch square metal blocks that were to be welded on to the internal PTO shafts of Massey Ferguson tractors then tumbling them, again no one would let a fifteen year old anywhere near it these days.
When I was fifteen I had a part time job at a chicken hatchery just down the road from our house, my first job on a Saturday morning was to run the backup generator.
The backup generator was a huge diesel set off a ship, one of the bosses was an ex-merchant navy engineer and had set it up. As we were no where near the sea it was coupled up to a huge round corrugated iron water tank to cool it.
So eight o’clock every Saturday morning I had knock the mains supply off, then start the donkey engine and get it turn the seven cylinder generator engine over with the decompressors open, then bring each cylinder in one at a time until the main engine was running then knock the donkey engine off and switch the changeover to bring the power back on in the hatchery using the gen set supply, letting it run on the generator for half a hour, before closing the generator down and switching back to the mains supply.
Whilst I was doing this the alarms connected to the gaffers bungalows sounded, letting them kno that I had arrived at work, unlocked and had knocked the mains off ready to run the generator.
Can you imagine anyone letting a fifteen year old do that unsupervised these days?
My school year was the last that could leave at fifteen and I had actually started working at the hatchery when I was fourteen, so as far as they were concerned I could just be treated like any other worker because I could have been there full time. Over the summer I got a job in a factory working unsupervised on a machine cutting half inch square metal blocks that were to be welded on to the internal PTO shafts of Massey Ferguson tractors then tumbling them, again no one would let a fifteen year old anywhere near it these days.
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