Chad Kuntz on Back Up Generators – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-70

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

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In this episode I was joined by Chad Kuntz an Electrical Engineer with 10 years of experience working for large utility company building substation generation facilities with back up power redundancy. In this episode we discussed generator systems for our homes, sizing a generator to your needs and deciding between DIY vs. professional installation depending on your ability and system requirements. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 12-1-11 and was originally Episode-794- Chad Kuntz on Back Up Generators The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Well, you pull yourself up, they keep bringing you down.
0:08.0	Are they going to bail you out or just run you around?
0:15.0	They said you should have a house, the American way.
0:22.1	Well, hi, folks. This is Jack Spirgo with the American way. Well, hi folks, this is Jack Spirica with the Survival Podcast.
0:26.4	Welcome to an episode of Friday Flashbacks.
0:29.2	After 15 years and hundreds of interview shows, we decided to run them as flashbacks every Friday,
0:34.9	beginning with the oldest of them and going forward.
0:38.4	There's a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we've done over the year. So sit back and enjoy, whether
0:44.2	this is your first time or even your second time around with today's episode. I'm sure you will
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1:22.8	sign up. Now let's get into today's Friday Flashback. And today we rewind back to December 1st, 2011, originally episode 794.
1:35.2	This was Charles Cuntz on backup generators.
1:38.1	Charles was an electrical engineer with about 10 years of on-the-job experience at the time of this episode, which is, again, more than a decade ago.
1:46.7	But this is a great episode, and it's just as relevant today as it was all the way back in 2011 when we originally did it.
1:53.6	And I love the way that this episode came out.
1:56.1	Charles kept this very simple, very brass tacks, very much what you need to know about choosing a generator
2:02.4	for your needs. And I'll just throw in with this that over the years, the number one prep
2:08.1	that's paid off for us in our home here and up in Arkansas was the generator. Like more than
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