Imagine the power fails. Your whole neighborhood is in darkness. Before anyone can react, your power turned back on automatically. Neighbors are looking out the window and its pitch black outside. The only lights they see are coming from your home. Now they are all scrabbling to connect portable generators and find extension cords. While this is going on your back to watching TV, cooking, working or doing whatever you wish in the comfort and safety of your own home. It is as if a power failure never occurred and it is all because you thought ahead and installed a home backup generator like this one.

This generator uses the latest in diesel engine technology. This means it can produce a lot of power with less fuel and leave no smoke or bad smell behind. Now this means you can own a powerful generator like small businesses and emergency services do but without the huge size or high costs normally associated with having one. Switching to diesel means that just like with heavy construction equipment, farm vehicles, and transport trucks you too can benefit from the lower operating costs and reduced maintenance.

This standby generator can be your main source of power and run full or part time. Typical life span of diesel engines like the one used here is over 10,000 hours. At their operating speed of 1800 RPM that is less then your cars engine speed on the highway and equivalent to over 590,000 miles of driving. That is four times as much as a gasoline engine and ten times longer then a portable generator.

This Home Standby Generator has heavy insulated doors that are easy to lock and secure. The doors contact automotive grade weather stripping that prevent noise from vibration and for increased sound proofing. Your generator stays dry, quiet and secure. The same twin doors are found on the other side too. Doing an oil change is much easier then on your car. Radiator fluid and oil can easily be drained and each have an easy to gain access valve and extension.

Aurora pays great attention to detail. A key unlocks the hinged electrical panel. Look at how easy it is to gain access to fuses, wiring and all electrical components. Everything is protected, secured and kept dry. Every wire is labeled and easy to identify today or ten years down the road.

Looking through the control panel window you can easily see all generator controls, gauges and operating status. The highly corrosion resistant enclosure is powder coated with anti-rust paint. Zinc plated and Stainless steel hardware is also used.

Highlights

• 1800 RPM 2.05 L 55 HP water cooled 4 cylinder diesel engine.
• High Performance Single Phase Brushless Alternator (maintenance free)
• Computer Safe Automatic Voltage Regulator
• Included 200 amp automatic transfer switch.
• Power Generator digital controller model GU601
• Built in Battery Charger
• EPA Approved
• Can be used as a Continuous Power Source
• Built in base / belly fuel tank.
• Installed glow plugs for cold weather preheating

Automatic Transfer Switch

An automatic transfer switch is included with this generator. The Automatic Transfer Switch is a control circuit that senses mains voltage. When utility power is interrupted, it starts up the generator, disconnects the load from the utility and connects it to the generator. It then continues to monitor mains voltage, and when it is restored, switches your household wiring from the generator back to the utility. When the generator is disconnected it normally goes into a cool-down process and then automatically shuts down. You can use your own transfer switch or bypass it if not required.

Control Panel

We believe our customers purchase diesel generators for their reliability, durability and ease of use. While some electronics is necessary to control generator functions, we believe simplicity is an important factor and is why we built this generator as shown here. Our generator controller is very efficient. It does all that is required. All controls and gauges are easy to read. There is nothing complicated about our products. Virtually anyone with little if any mechanical or electrical background can service our products with our without our help.

Our generator panel includes an electronic smart generator controller. The purpose of the controller is to automatically start and stop the generator engine. It checks for generator status and reports back any fault condition. The generator controller will automatically shut down the engine if necessary when a fault condition occurs. Shutdown may happen for low oil pressure or for under or over engine speed limits. If you are lowing the RPM to switch to 50 Hz the user can select the change and prevent false alarm and use it on either system. The controller can also manage engine preheating functions if connected.

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Large easy to read gauges for Voltage, Frequency and Amperage are easily viewed with lockable access door open or closed. Status lights also monitor and show presence of hydro mains and generator power conditions.

Other gauges indicate coolant temperature, oil pressure battery voltage and engine hour meter. The hour meter takes the guess work out of knowing when it is time to change the oil for example.

Very simple and easy to operate in either manual mode or fully automatic start up. Use it with the built in Transfer Switch or bypass it if you wish.

Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR)

This generator uses a Automatic Voltage Regulator so it can maintain output voltage to +- 0.5 volts. Because it is adjustable you can even set it to voltages for other countries or fine tune it for your specific application. If the generator was installed far from your home you could increase the voltage to make up for any line loss for example. Currently It is setup for Normal North American 120/240 volts at 60 hz.

The automatic voltage regulator helps to produce clean power that is safer for computers and other home electronics.

Engine