6AM and 6:15 AM they both exercised. 6AM for the propane fired unit and 6:15AM for the diesel unit. Mailman dropped off a package the other day and remarked 'looks like you have a new standby genny to which I replied, no, it's the old one in a new enclosure. It was less expensive for me to gut the old corroded steel enclosure and install the guts in a new powder coated aluminum cabinet. Damn genny and motor was heavy. Had to use a cherry picker to remove and reinstall it. It was all plug and play hooking everything back up. Generac thoughtfully color codes everything. Hopefully, I won't have to repeat that anytime soon. Interestingly, the diesel powered unit has no corrosion on it anywhere and it has a painted steel enclosure but the propane fired unit that takes care of the house rusted terribly. I even poured a new concrete pad for it. 6" thick with reinforcing mat in it. I moved the unit slightly to the right so I didn't have to move the earthing rod. Generac provides a very complete enclosure kit, right down to new decals which I tossed. The instructions were terrible but it wasn't rocket science to pull it and reinstall it in the new enclosure. Interestingly, all the hardware was individually packaged in zip lock plastic bags. I have a pile of empty bags now. They even provided Rivnuts for the front panel and interestingly, all the new hardware was metric except the Rivnuts, those were SAE. All done and no spares left either. Generac didn't provide enough (length) lid sealing gasket so I had to get a roll from Amazon. I could probably go into business replacing the corroded steel enclosures with the aluminum ones as there are a load of rusting away steel enclosures around here. The new enclosure set me back almost 4 grand but was still a lot cheaper than a new unit.
One thing I did have to do was fabricate internal front and back bulkheads as Generac didn't provide them Not a big deal, just took time to measure the old corroded ones, generate a cut plot and cut them on the CNC plasma table and then weld on nutserts for the threaded fasteners that secured them to the engine and generator head.
All is well that ends well and it's much quieter than it was in the corroding away cabinet as well. Generac provided a complete set of sound absorbing foil backed foam.
Was a ton of grunt work and a bit of pre assembly guessing as the instructions were pretty cryptic.
I'm guessing that Generac never considered an owner and not a dealer would do a refit.
Interestingly, I had no issue purchasing the new enclosure from Generac at all and the new enclosure looks just like the old one except it's aluminum.
Don't look at all like the newer ones with the curved sides and overlapping top.
