Is Your Home Generator Ready for Ontario’s Winter
Prepare your home generator for the winter. Ontario’s winter season can be deadly if you’re not prepared. Toronto winter storms, rapidly dropping temperatures and gusting winds can wreak havoc on road conditions, make it unsafe to be outdoors and lead to the occasional power outage. In addition to having an emergency kit in your vehicle […]
Generator Safety Tips: Ensuring Safe Use During Power Outages in Ontario
The Necessity of Generators during Power Outages For Canadians in Ontario, weather-related power outages are a frequent reality. Whether you’re a homeowner or business owner, having a reliable generator can be a lifeline, ensuring warmth, light, and uninterrupted operation of essential appliances. However, while generators provide significant advantages during a power outage, following specific […]
7 Tips to Prepare Your Home Standby Generator Before Winter
Is your home standby generator ready? If not, it’s time to prepare. Read to learn why preparing your generator is a must before winter and find seven tips. Why Preparing Your Generator Is a Must Before Winter A frigid winter holds the possibility of blizzards, ice storms and high wind gusts. These are dangerous, weather-related […]
When is it Time to Replace Your Backup Generator?
Keeping your home and business running smoothly is hard without an adequate source of power. A backup generator can help make sure you’re still in operation when the power goes down. As your business grows, your need to have a working generator at all times — after all, time is money. Making sure you take […]
5 Things To Look for When Choosing a Backup Generator
When you need access to electrical power that the normal power grid isn’t able to provide — either because of power failure or a lack of infrastructure — investing in either a portable generator or a standby generator is an attractive option. However, all generators and generator brands are not created equal. There are several […]
How Long Can Backup Generators Run Continuously?
Backup generators are designed to keep your power running during long outages, which in itself raises a couple of obvious questions: how long a backup generator can really go on functioning continually before it needs to shut down and the specifics of how a generator’s ongoing protection for your power really works. Here, we’ll go […]
Why Generator Maintenance is Important to The Health of Your Backup Generator
As standby generator technicians, we get asked all the time why it’s important to conduct maintenance in regular intervals on backup generators. There are numerous reasons we’ll cover in the article but let’s start with engine oil. Engine Oil Most people don’t know that engine oil degrades with time even if the engine doesn’t run […]
How Long Do Backup Generators Last? | Backup Generators Lifespan
Because power generators are designed for infrequent and intermittent service, backup generators will often last over 30 years. The exact lifespan depends on how often the generator runs, the quality of the generator and whether it receives regular servicing. As the leader in automatic standby generators, Generac builds generators of the highest quality with a […]
How You Can Spot Trouble on the Horizon with Your Current Standby Generator
When your backup standby generator doesn’t work properly, you need to have it looked at right away. Normally, it’s supposed to test itself weekly, start up and run smoothly and generate the rated voltage at the correct Hertz. If it doesn’t do these things, it’s worse than not having a generator at all because you’re […]