What you and I do at home in a power outage is not the issue...
What others request and are willing to pay money for.....is what I am speaking about...
What about Essential services.......Like Police....Fire....Emergency...Health care providers.....Hospitals...
They ALL have backup power with automatic transfer switches.......Some have redundant systems
We have clients that spend thousands and thousands of dollars so they are never without power and they are data centers....
After Hurricane Sandy they were so paranoid about possibly losing power in another possible storm they went on generator power before the storm and had us put men on site 24/7 until well after the storm......They even have backup machines in place to backup their backup!!! We have one in our yard now for one of those companies.....they have no room so we have it.....500KW unit on a trailer.....just for them incase their regular unit were to fail.....
Money talks......
So why should a homeowner not have the option of having the same capability....They do and if they are willing to spend the money for a proper install it gets done....
I worked on 3 phase switchgear but would not think of using it on my Home.
Or a Changeover that I have no control over, unless I am home when "It tries to start". What happens if it does not start ?
You still have nothing, and it can Pop electronics in your home. Seen electronics on oil rigs that fried because the Gen would not Gen. It can cost Millions of dollars when that happens.
Even Natural Gas may not be available.
You are correct Money talks, and fools fall for BS. I am not sold.
Like I said people are getting lazy.
As long as the Beer stays cold you should be good. Just buy or make Ice.
