Hello all,

I asked this question a long time ago, but it seems that I'm finally going to give in and buy one. I thought I could get away with just a portable generator, but after Wilma blew through South Florida, my house will not have power back until November 15th. Luckily, the weather is favorable, but this can easily get worse if the heat picks up.

I started searching around and found this generator which doesn't seem too expensive for what it can do. I'm lucky that I have Natural gas for my house.

http://www.electricgeneratorsdirect.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=372

My house is about 1600 sq ft. I have a very new 3.5 ton AC unit, a fridge that is a year old, an electric water heater(soon to be changed to gas), and a clothes dryer that is already gas.

I don't have any amperage readings right now since I'm away from my house and won't be back for several days.

Obviously, I won't be running all the appliances at the same time as I might do under normal situations. So I guess my questions are:

Are these types of natural gas generators any good?
Are they noisy? Like any noisier than a portable gasoline generator?
What are some possible pitfalls I have not thought of?
Is the Guardian name any good
Is this model any good?

Thanks guys!

David

No suggestions? Any help is appreciated...

Others and I let your question go, I guess because we lack experience with such a unit. It looks like a great unit. With the housing, it could be quieter than the portable gasoline ones. The transfer switch is quite important. People get into trouble trying to rig up connecting the portable ones into the house wiring. I got a good deal on a 6250 watt unit, and it may cost me as almost as much to legally connect it in as I paid for it.

Looks like you could hold out a long time on it. On another forum I am on, somebody brought up the idea that a gasoline generator isn't much good if the local gas stations don't have power to run their pumps. I think the natural gas is fairly secure unless there is a earthquake.

I guess I will have to do some more research to see if anyone who bought these types of systems are happy with them.

Thanks for the reply!