Generator Repair & Service in Auburn — Any Brand

Why Standby Generators Fail — and What We Repair

• The battery — by far the most common failure. A standby generator lives outside and cranks a few seconds a week. Batteries die quietly and the unit looks perfectly fine until the day it has to start. This is the single biggest reason generators fail during an outage.
• Fuel and carburetion — propane regulator problems, undersized or partly blocked gas lines, stale fuel in units that sat, and carburetors that gummed up between runs.
• Oil, filters, plugs and valves — overdue service, low or degraded oil, fouled spark plugs and valves out of adjustment, which show up as hard starting, rough running, or a unit that starts and then quits under load.
• Controller and sensor faults — alarm and error codes, failed sensors, boards that lost their programming, and units stuck in an alarm state that will not clear.
• Rodent and weather damage — genuinely common out here. Chewed wiring harnesses, nests built against the engine, corroded connections and water intrusion through failed seals.

Annual Maintenance — Book It Before Fire Season, Not During

Repair or Replace? We Will Give You the Honest Answer

Frequently Asked Questions

• Will you service a generator you did not install? Yes — that is a large part of what we do. Any brand, any installer, including units whose original installer is no longer in business.
• My generator will not start. What is it usually? Most often the battery. After that: fuel supply and regulator problems, overdue service, or a controller fault. We diagnose it rather than swapping parts and hoping.
• The generator runs but the house has no power. That is almost always the automatic transfer switch or the electrical side rather than the engine — a failed contactor, a control board, or a utility-sensing fault. As a licensed electrical contractor we can actually repair that, not just report it.
• How often does a standby generator need service? Annually as a baseline, and ideally scheduled ahead of fire season. Heavy use during a long outage season warrants a visit afterward too.
• Do you do Generac warranty work? Yes — we are an authorized Generac dealer, so warranty service and genuine Generac parts come directly from us.
• Can you service Kohler, Briggs & Stratton, Champion or Cummins units? Yes. We repair and maintain home standby generators of any brand.
• My unit runs its weekly test fine — does that mean it is ready? Not necessarily. A self-test proves it starts; it does not prove it will carry your house under real load. That is what a load test during a service visit is for.
• Is my generator worth repairing? We will tell you straight. Age, parts availability, repeat failures across different systems and whether it was correctly sized in the first place all factor in — and if replacing it is the better value, we will say so.