OT: Battery backup

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011, C Day wrote:
>
>Does anyone use natural gas powered, automatic start-up, stand-by 
>generator rather than gasoline powered?

My brother does, having it installed when his house was built.

I priced out an automatic system like this, around 12KVA, sufficient to run
everything.  The cost was somewhat north of 12K installed.  The 3KVA Honda
cost $2,000.

Some argue that natural gas might be shut off in the event of an
earthquake.  This is certainly a consideration around here, and other areas
prone to earthquakes.  Our natural gas was OK during the last significant
earthquake we had here, although there may have been outages in Seattle
were some buildings suffered serious damage.

Bill
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