Generator Companies Hate Me for Showing These 5 Whole Home Generator Mistakes

Five mistakes that turn a good whole home standby generator into a bad week, each checked against one question: was it installed to the maker's own book, or to the sale? It covers placement and the federal safety staff's carbon monoxide findings after Hurricane Ida, buying in the months after a big storm, a propane tank sized to the minimum, the maker's rule for shutting down every 24 hours in a long outage, and the weekly test that runs 10 decibels quieter than the real thing. The document at the center is the maker's own annual report to the SEC, where a year without major outages is listed as a risk to its sales. Nothing here is for sale and no link is attached.