THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN BUYING A GENERATOR

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THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN BUYING A GENERATOR
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BUYING A GENERATOR
If you have been thinking about buying a standby
generator for your home, now could be as good a
time as any to do it. There is a global rise in
the use of electrical power, and this is only
going to increase because of climate change and
the fact that we are all having to turn over to
electrically powered vehicles as petrol and
diesel ones become, in the UK at least,
outlawed. This is very likely indeed to increase
the number of power outages that we experience.
OK, you might say, if the power goes down for a
couple of hours, so what? But what if it goes
down for a couple of weeks as it did in the
northwest of Scotland at the beginning of the
year? Thats a whole different ball game.
Investing in a generator now is just plain common
sense.
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Buy New Generator
You can actually buy a new generator in the
UK for as little as about 300, but it wont
provide very much power. On top of that you have
to allow for installation which would take about
3 days and cost a ballpark figure of
1,000. However, the average home would need a
much larger generator than that. You can see that
an oven uses 2,000 watts, a fridge 1,200, washing
machine 1,200, and so on. And there are a few
things that are not shown such as a water heater,
which also uses a lot of energy. In order to buy
a new generator in the UK you need to calculate
the amount of power that you need and then add
about 25 in order to allow for any overload.
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However, the average home would need a much
larger generator than that. You can see that an
oven uses 2,000 watts, a fridge 1,200, washing
machine 1,200, and so on. And there are a few
things that are not shown such as a water heater,
which also uses a lot of energy. In order to buy
a new generator in the UK you need to calculate
the amount of power that you need and then add
about 25 in order to allow for any overload.
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Manual Transfer Switch
You also need a transfer switch in order to
transfer from the mains to the generator. You can
get a manual transfer switch quite cheaply.
However, a manual transfer switch, rather
obviously, means that you have to physically fire
up the generator and then when it is running at
full speed switch from the mains to the
generator.
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Automatic Transfer Switch
Far better is an automatic transfer
switch because this, again rather obviously, will
automatically fire up the generator when the
power goes down and switch over when it is up and
running. That means that you are only without
power for a matter of seconds. 
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Contact US

• Deveraux Crescent, Ebley,
• Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4PX
• Landline 
• 01453799655
• Email ID
• sales_at_bladespowergeneration.com
• Web Site
• https//www.bladespowergeneration.co.uk/

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