Whether you are a homeowner or the owner of a farm or commercial facility, you want to protect yourself, your family, your goods, your production, among other things, from a power failure. Indeed, there is nothing more stressful than not having enough heat in winter, the risk of losing part of your goods due to your refrigerators or freezers shutting down, or even putting the lives of many animals in danger due to a power outage.
If you need to make up for a blackout, consider buying a propane generator. It’s a safe and reliable choice with many advantages.
The Main Advantages of a Propane Generator
A propane backup generator has many advantages. Here are the main ones:
- Reliable: it is equipped with an automatic transfer switch that manages when it starts and stops. So, regardless of whether you are there or not, your generator automatically takes over in case of power failure. You don’t have to do anything.
- Maintenance-free: with its automatic regular maintenance mode (every month or at your desired interval), the generator starts up, keeping it clean and ready to operate.
- Stable: Propane is a safe and secure fuel that does not degrade over time when stored in a tank or pressurized cylinder.
- Convenient: it eliminates all the drawbacks of gas-powered generators.
- Versatile: The generator is not only handy in the event of a power outage, but it can also be very handy in situations where there is no electrical power, such as camping (providing a portable refrigerator, light, stove, etc.), a construction site (giving light, heat, powering specialized tools, etc.), and many other uses.
- Safe: it eliminates the stress and many worries associated with a lack of electricity (being plunged into darkness, losing food, crops, or animals, running out of heat in winter, finding yourself without water in the countryside, the basement drain pump shutting down leading to a risk of flooding, etc.).
- Durable: a generator has a lifespan of 20 to 30 years.
What you should know about propane generators
To ensure that a standby generator fulfills its role and meets your needs, you must, before buying it, calculate the power output in kilowatts (on average between 100 and 250 kW for a farm, for example) that you will need in case of a power outage. It would be best to consider all the devices that will be powered and increase this total by 20%.
There are two types of generators: portable, which is smaller and can be moved around but requires a regular supply of gas, or fixed, which is larger and produces more kilowatts.
Are you interested in purchasing a propane generator? Are you hesitating between different models? Contact Propane Levac! The team will be happy to advise you on the unit that will best suit your needs and budget.