Life can be strange. We live in a world where we rely upon electricity for so many things. How would you charge your phone without it? Run your laptop? Cook meals? Drive a hybrid or electric car? Watch TV? Phone a friend? Keep the food fresh in your fridge or freezer? Have light in your home at night? You couldn’t do any of that, and more, without electricity.
And yet, what is strange is that we are at a point where for one reason and another, our electricity supplies are likely to go down at some point this winter, and maybe for days or weeks at a time. Yesterday, October 17th, was the 35th anniversary of the greatest storm we have ever seen in Britain which this writer remembers only too well, having been without electricity for 13 days as a result! And now, climate change seems to be bringing more severe storms to add to our woes of gas supplies being threatened by a certain Russian gentleman.
No wonder so many people are considering buying a generator to provide the necessary electricity when the mains go down. We have had a lot of enquiries recently for new generators for sale in the UK at Blades Power Generation.
Many Different Sizes
In fact, we have new generators for sale in the UK of many different sizes, since the size that you need is dependent upon the amount of power that you need to generate. So, you may only need a relatively small generator to run things in your home, but if you need to power a factory that is a different matter entirely. In fact, it is almost more important to power your business because otherwise it comes to a grinding halt.
You will also need to invest in a changeover switch to switch from mains to generator when the power goes down, and the reverse when it comes back on again, of course. You can use a manual changeover switch, but this has certain disadvantages, so an automatic changeover switch is far superior.
When you have a manual changeover switch you have to switch off the mains, go to the generator, fire it up, then switch to the generator. And of course, the same the other way around when the mains power comes back on. This can be difficult at the best of times, and impossible if you don’t happen to be on the premises. As you might guess, an automatic changeover switch does it all for you, so you will only be without power for seconds until the lights come back on.
