Home Generator Briggs & Stratton 40303 15,000 Watt

Home Generator Briggs & Stratton 40303 15,000 Watt 

Home Generator Briggs & Stratton 40303 15,000 Watt 

Briggs & Stratton 40303 15,000 Watt IntelliGen Natural Gas/Liquid Propane Powered Air Cooled Home Standby Generator (CARB Compliant) (Discontinued by Manufacturer)

To start, I purchased this product from another vendor for much less than amazon. Search and you shall find.
As to why I purchased a Briggs & Stratton. A neighbor of mine had a Generac and it failed him during the Sandy hurricane. It lasted him less than a day. I need to put my faith and family well being in a company that has a four year warranty rather than a one year from the competition. That to me shows they have faith in their own product. Plus after speaking to their tech support I had even more confidence in their company. (No Accent)

To my review:

I was able to save money by doing most of the work myself. I laid the gravel and poured the cement. I ran the black pipe and hook-up to the city gas line. I had all the electrical work done by a professional which cost me $600. Total cost for materials and install came to $4500. That included the 200 AMP Auto-Transfer switch.

After the install we turned the generator on and let it do it's prep cycle. You have to select a time for it to do it's weekly maintenance but that's no big deal it only last 20 minutes or so.
It's loud. Loud enough that even though we have it on the side of the house where the garage should shield us from the noise, we still heard it inside. I can only imagine my neighbors looks if and when there is another blackout.

After it cycled though it's prep we decided to test the automatic transfer switch and see how much of the home it could power before straining the unit. We flipped the main breaker to off, the unit turned on 20 seconds later and then less than a minute after that the transfer switch turned over to the generator and the house went live again.Read more
Home Generator Briggs & Stratton 40303 15,000 Watt