The AM Forum

Luck of the draw, I am the on the on call manager for an emergency generator company this week. How are you fellows doing down there in The Greensboro NC area?  Lots  of calls coming in via our Greensboro NC office phone number. While it shouldn't get to me after 6 years of hadling ememrgancy calls, I feel bad  :-[ for the homeowners that can't understand why we can't just run out and install a generator in their home. Or worse the ones who have a generator however never worried about having it serviced. Thankfully the majority of our work is commercial and the only real issue with that is after 3 days running, they just want up to come out and check on the units.. Testimonial to good maintenance.

It's been a rough winter down here overall, Steve. The natives aren't use to so much cold and repeated snow and ice storms. Even though it's something we'd shrug off or not even notice up north, it's a big deal down here.

Still a lot of folks without power over around Mebane and up in Oxford, just 10 miles or so from here. 1300 without power in our county alone. Three days or more for some locations that started getting hit Thursday evening. That makes people nervous.

I've got a little 3kw Onan W3S antique genny that is more a restoration project/toy than anything else. We decided a while ago that a decent backup generator is a must down here. Along with the occasional tornado like the one that hit Raleigh a couple years ago, we're also smack in Hurricane country. Now on top of that we need to consider ice and snow outages from increasingly colder winters.

Did my research and decided to get one of the old AT&T Long Lines backup generators made by GM/Delco. Found a 30kw driven by a 2-71 Detroit Diesel, but a 20kw would be more in line with our needs. If you happen to have any spares kicking around the warehouse.  ;D