5 Standby Generator Mistakes Utility Companies Hope You Keep Making

A $12,000 standby generator can go quiet on the second night of an outage with nothing broken on it. This video covers five mistakes that leave a home standby unit dark or overpriced: buying the propane rating when you run natural gas, trusting the weekly self-test in place of real maintenance, assuming a gas line never stops, mistaking the transfer switch for independence, and battery setups that slowly put you on the utility's rate schedule. Each one comes with what it costs and how to check it yourself.