June is the official beginning of hurricane season, so do not procrastinate any longer to service your existing generator or purchase the generator you have been wanting to buy ever since you moved to coastal North Carolina. Although the forecast is for fewer than normal storms this year, it only takes one bad storm to cause severe problems.
If you have an existing generator, it needs to be maintained regularly, just like your car. Please call us to come inspect your generator and perform the preventative maintenance that will help to ensure that your generator will run when the power goes out for any reason. Preventative maintenance also ensures that any warranty claims to the parts’ manufacturers can be supported with evidence of routine maintenance.
Our preventative maintenance includes:
- Visual inspection for any issues, including any faults reflected on the controller
- Oil and filter change
- Fuel top off
- All systems inspections:
- Battery
- Engine starting and exhaust systems
- Alternator and electrical systems
- Cooling system
- Transfer switch operation
Like AAA for your car, you can also purchase one of three levels of annual Preventative Maintenance Service Plans. These plans also put you on a priority list for response during a storm plus random checks when we are in your neighborhood.
If you are considering the purchase of a new generator, we are one of the few local providers who sells many different brands. Therefore, we understand the differences, the pluses and minuses and limitations of all those brands. As a result, we can recommend the brand that suits your specific needs the best.
As a result of our experience over many years with many different brands, we have developed our own HERO brand generator that has a water-cooled engine and exhaust that solves many of the other brands’ issues:
- Lowers the need for air through the system
- Combats the coastal salt air that corrodes the metal parts
- Allows use of a fiberglass enclosure with insulation, instead of metal enclosure
- Lowers the noise level
- Fueled with diesel instead of natural or LP gas because low pressure on the natural gas lines can interfere with its delivery when so many neighborhood generators are using it at the same time
- Lessens the difficulty of LPG delivery during a storm because of large trucks
- Runs five times longer on diesel than gas for same volume of fuel
In addition to storms and other random damage to power lines, the extreme growth in power usage is beginning to create instability of the system due to all the new data center projects that are required to support the computers we use for everything. As the utilities try to keep up with this power demand growth, it creates another reason to need a generator for more than a storm.
Call Greenfield Energy at 910-619-0256. We are experts at diagnosing your specific generator needs, and can help and support you through your purchase, maintenance and repair.
