When a power outage occurs, your generator provides electrical power to your home within seconds. During installation, you decide which important lights, appliances and equipment you want to keep running when utility power goes down. When your stand-by generator powers up, these crucial items will continue to operate.

You don't even have to be at home to start the generator. The generator's fully automatic transfer switch continually monitors your utility power. When it senses a disruption, the generator turns on within 30 seconds - often so fast that you don't even notice the interruption.

When utility power is restored, the generator shuts down automatically, and the transfer switch resumes monitoring for the next power emergency.

To see more of how a home standby generator works, watch this flash movie from Guardian generators.

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