Genpower Helps The Coldest Journey Team to Cross the Antarctic

Genpower Hyundai help The Coldest Journey team.Genpower and Hyundai Power Equipment are pleased to have helped the Coldest Journey team to base camp of the Antarctic. Helping the team by providing a Hyundai generator for their bleak and challenging crossing of the subzero terrain, we received reports from the ColdestJourney team that they had hit a milestone in their mission, and had reached base camp. Unfortunately, experienced explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes had to pull of out of the crossing a mere week before, however, the expedition has continued without him and progress is being made. We were sent images from the camp for us to use, and we are pleased to be part of the sponsoring team helping the journey reach it’s ultimate end of raising  $10m for Seeing is Believing, a charity aimed at tackling blindness.

For more information, go to http://www.thecoldestjourney.org/donate/.

What You Should Know About Generators, Part 1

In your lifetime, no matter how brief an experience, you will be on the receiving end of numerous amounts of power cuts and outages.

If you live in India for example, these will be commonplace. Last year, there was a report by Ofgem which reported the incoming risk that Britain may face rolling blackouts come 2015. Even America is not immune to the odd power outage, with no less than their ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ falling victim to a blackout, as just after half-time  SuperBowl 47 came to a halt when the lights went out. So with the apparent energy crisis not letting up and not even planning to for a while, why are we still so content to let these random outages pass over us, and with proposed extended periods without power in the future, should we remain as passive as we have been?

It’s not only planned blackouts, but natural disasters which can only be predicted so far in advance that tend to strike, and when they do, they tend to strike hardest. Last year was the wettest year on record since people started writing these details down. The snow at the beginning of this year also came with its share of problems, with power lines and cables failing, homes and businesses abandoned or ruined due to adverse weather. The answer to everything is not going to be generators, but they are a good place to start. They can’t cure the weather, or fix a downed power line, but in most cases, they bypass the problems presented by both.

In this small series, I’ll be writing about the ins and outs of generators, explaining what you need to be looking for, what can you do and what you need to know about powering your home, business and life:

Well firstly, you need to know that there are different types of generator. Not just by different brands, and not even as innocuous as petrol or diesel. There are, for those who aren’t in the know, more than just one type of generator. There isn’t just one type and they don’t all do the same thing. They all share a common goal, but some do it in very different ways, and the output, usage and price of a generating set all depends on what you plan to use it for.

We’ll focus primarily on smaller scale generators for the time being. Chances are if you don’t really know much about them in the first place, then you probably won’t want one to run as backup for a hospital, city power grid or large maritime shipping vessel.

However, backup can come in many forms, and home and small business backup is probably more of an issue to the discerning end user.

So much of what we do from day-to-day is dependant on electricity and power. Backup power is the next logical step as we move forward into an era where even in the first world, this supply is under threat. Aside from backup generators, you also have the automatic or permanent generators. Constantly wired into a buildings electrical system, with the use of auto-transfer switches or in-built technologies, they will automatically trigger and spring into life when they notice the absence of grid power.

These machines are usually a lot large, as they are free-standing units, which need to pull a lot more power, more regularly so will generally have a larger engine and be much bigger units. They’ll also cost more in general, but it’s important to get the right machine for your needs. There is no point trying to get a backup machine to run your home or business. You cannot trick a smaller generator into running more often than it should be used for and it is false economy to use a smaller generator slightly less in order to prolong it’s running life. At the end of the day, you’re trying to maintain your current working and home life, not just muddle through.

However, unless you’re moving somewhere off-grid, you necessarily need to go for anything other than a backup generator, which will keep the size and cost down.

For more information on what else you need to know about generators, stay tuned for the next instalment from me.

Genpower stockist Seamark Nunn awarded Marine Retailer Of The Year

Yesterday was a happy day in the office as Seamark Nunn – stockist of our generators, water pumps and pressure washers – has just been awarded Marine Retailer Of The Year at the Marine Trade Association / Boating Business annual industry awards dinner held on Tuesday evening at the London International Boat Show.

The Marine Retailer of the Year is one of the premier accolades to be handed out by the MTA. In what the organisation’s chairman Chris Murdoch described “as a very tough past 12 months for both the marine industry and the whole retail industry in general”, this was an outstanding achievement for Seamark Nunn, who were established in 1961, to win this year’s award. The MTA/BB Awards are judged by a panel of different personalities who all have a firm foothold and a solid reputation within the marine industry.

 

This award looks to acknowledge an outstanding contribution in the marine retail sector and helps the winning company gain invaluable respect in the industry. Customer service is high on the judges’ list of priorities, as they believe that satisfied customers make for an active and successful industry.

So well done again to Seamark Nunn, and we hope the success continues!

If you’re interested in becoming a dealer for Genpower and our range of Hyundai and Evopower products, email Ben or George and we can help you make all the arrangements, and hopefully you can have a success story like Seamark Nunn’s!

Hello again from a new Genpower!

Hey folks!  I know it’s been a while since I last blogged and I can only imagine the suffering you’ve all gone through in my absence.  But hey, I’m back!  And that can’t be a bad thing. Hopefully.

Anyway.  I’m here again for the first time in around 6 months to bring my customary terribleness to the Genpower blog, and to announce some awesome things we’ve been working on.  Not sure if any of you reading know this, but I’m one of the resident geeks here at Genpower.  Rob and I spend our hours programming and drinking coffee.  Thinking about it, we probably spend more time drinking coffee than programming…  Don’t tell the management.

Our latest product is a stockist locator through which customers can quickly and easily find their nearest stockist, complete with contact information and a Google Maps mashup.  We think it’s pretty cool and we really hope people find it useful.  We’ve got some more awesome stuff lined up for our stockists, but there’s no point talking about it quite yet because honestly we haven’t even finished designing most of it.

We’ve also got a forum where people – both end users and dealers alike – are welcome to ask all sorts of questions about any of our products.  We’ve actually had this for some time but constant barrages of spam meant I wasn’t too happy to shout about it.  With any luck we’ve knocked that on the head now though so it’s ready to get some traffic.

I’m gonna go grab another cup of coffee and put my programming hat back on because we’ve got loads more awesome stuff we need to build for you, and much as I love talking about it, I kind of need to get on with doing it.