Allan, I have heard from a generator sales / service friend that the water cooled Generac gennies (I believe 20 kW and up) are totally different animals than the standard Generac gennies. From personal experience and word-of-mouth I wouldn't touch the standard generac machines, but the water cooled ones seem to be good machines, although I have no personal experience with them. Not sure if they come with the integrated ATS which have caused major headaches for me in off-grid setup.
Howie -- Howie Michaelson NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer™ Catamount Solar, LLC Renewable Energy Systems Sales and Service VT Solar Electric & Hot Water Incentive Partner http://www.CatamountSolar.com 802-272-0004 On Mon, January 16, 2012 7:25 am, Comet Systems wrote: > Allan, > First, I'm a Generac sales & service dealer so I have an obvious bias. > The Olympian brand are made by Generac for caterpillar. > > Anything under 20KW will be residential and will be designed for short > runs. The Generac 6KW Ecogen is very well suited for your needs, as it is > built for long run applications and features an oversize oil pan to help > with oil breakdown and cooling issues.. If you need bigger than that, I > would look to a QuietSource 20KW. Low speed, long run commercial quality > but very cost effective and well supported. > http://www.generac.com/Commercial/QuietSource/Products/QuietSource_Series_22_kW/ > > Let me know if you need additional information > > > >> Re Olympian (made by Caterpillar): the smallest model sold in this >> country >> is a 25kW, well larger than we need. >> >> Re Generac: while I am quite impressed with the 6kW EcoGen unit, that's >> a >> special model, developed for the purpose, and too small for this >> application. I'm hesitant to use one of their standard units. >> >> > -- > Chris Mason > President, Comet Systems Ltd > mas...@cometsystems.co > www.cometsystems.co > Cell: 264.235.5670 > Int: +1305.767.2094 > Skype: netconcepts > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Options & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
