Customer Reviews for Westinghouse - 12,500 Peak Watt Dual Fuel Portable Generator, Electric Start, Transfer Switch Ready - Blue
Customer Rating
5
WGen9500DF
on February 25, 2023
Posted by: Acole
from Maco, GA
I bought this unit a few weeks ago and the price was so good I could not pass it up. Setup was so easy and I love the remote start, I was able to start and stop this unit from over 200 ft away. This generator will definitely power anything you connect to it.
We are so in love with our new generator. Previously, we had a little 3750-watt gas generator with extension cords hooked up to it and had to be so careful to get everything hooked up right so that we didn't blow the generator or the appliances. We had to go out to check the gas usage, change the extension cords in the house from appliance to appliance, etc. It was so much work to have the power go out and then so much work to run our generator, too.
Our WGEN9500DF has totally changed our lives. We have the fob to turn it off/on in the pouring snow instead of hiking through 2' of snow to do so. The instrument panel tells us how much fuel we have so that we know for sure when to add propane or gas. Not only is there a push button start if we choose not to use the fob, there is also a pull line as a backup starter. It's easy to change from propane fuel to gas with the turn of a mechanism on the front panel.
As far as maintenance, there is a window that tells us both the current run time and the overall run time in hours. This is used to know when we need to change our oil and other maintenance. Our surge with gas is 12,500 peak watts.
I feel like we purchased the Mercedes of generators at a fair and affordable price (I reviewed a lot of generators and prices.) It's like we have a new baby. I know this review may sound over the top, but if you had used our old generator and were 76 years old, you would understand my enthusiasm.
Now, we spend our time shoveling snow instead of shoveling snow AND changing extension cords and running outside to change fuel every hour.
Last, do you know how when you buy a product, oftentimes, the manual it comes with is generic, for example, one manual for all their vacuum cleaners in that line of vacuum products? I am so pleased to report that my GEN 9500 has a manual that is exclusively for the WGen9500DF with the customer service number right on the front.
I bought this for a backup power source to my solar panels and batteries. I was impressed with how quiet it is, and it has enough running watts to power my whole house incase of a really cloudy day when my batteries don't get charged all the way back up.