In the spring of 2023, NH Generator Installers put in a Kohler 14kw whole house generator to power our home in Tuftonboro, NH. It went live on 5 July. During the course of the next few months, we had a handful of power outages ranging from a few minutes to slightly over an hour. But the real test of the generator came with the Thursday 4 April 2024 heavy snow storm. We lost power about 1 am. It came back on for two hours, and then went off again about 6:30 am. We ran on the generator until 1 pm on Saturday 6 April, or roughly 2 1/2 days.
We couldn’t have been more pleased with the performance of our unit. In reality, we lacked power for only 8 seconds. It was like nothing happened, except for the background sound of our unit running 24/7 to keep our house fully functional. The day before the storm, our propane tanks measured between 65 and 70% full. After the street power returned, they were between 45 and 50%. We felt that the Kohler generator ran in a very fuel-efficient manner. Our thanks to NH Generator Installers, and in particular Pete, Bill, and the other members of the installation team, for providing us with a top-notch, reliable solution to power outages in this rural town that is subject to them. Without our sump pump running, we would have had roughly a foot of water in our basement after 2 1/2 days.