The lights stay on when the grid doesn't
⚡ Whole-home standby · Ice storms · OKC metro
Ice takes the lines down here every few winters. A standby unit has the furnace, the well and the fridge running again before you're out of bed.
What we install
One crew does the pad, the gas, the electrical and the permit. Nobody gets handed off to a subcontractor halfway through.
18kW to 26kW air-cooled units sized on a real load calculation. Pad, gas, transfer switch and start-up, all one crew.
Whole-house or managed-load switches. The power drops, it transfers in seconds, and it hands back to the utility on its own.
A generator needs its own supply and often a larger meter. We size the run and coordinate the meter change with the utility.
Not ready for standby? An interlock kit and a proper inlet box beats running cords through a cracked window in an ice storm.
Oil, filters, plugs, battery, and a run under real load. A unit that never gets tested fails on the one night you need it.
Batteries, controller faults, fuel pressure and failed exercise cycles. We service what we sold and what we didn't.
Latest install
The most recent unit we set — the size, what it runs, and where the transfer switch landed. New one most months, all of it within twenty minutes of here.
The installs
Work across the metro, photographed the way you'll actually see it — at night, with the power out somewhere else.
Who's wiring it
We were doing service electrical when a January ice event put half our customer list in the dark for nine days. We spent that week running extension cords between houses and decided there had to be a better answer than that.
Now it's all we do. Sizing, the pad, the gas line, the transfer switch, the permit and the start-up — same crew, one number to call when it's four degrees out and the whole street is black.
Why Blackout
Most generator jobs go wrong in the handoffs between three different trades.
We measure what your house actually pulls. Undersized units trip on the first cold start.
No waiting three weeks on a second contractor before the unit can run.
Pulled and scheduled by us, so you are not the one chasing the city.
We come back, run it hard and leave a report. That's what makes it start in January.
Get sized
Furnace, well pump, fridge, a home office, one air conditioner. That list decides the size, and the size decides the price — send it and we'll get close before anyone visits.
Contact
If you already have a unit and it won't start, call — we service other people's installs too, not just our own.
(405) 555-0143 office@blackoutstandbypower.com