Customer Reviews for Westinghouse - 12,500 Peak Watt Dual Fuel Portable Generator, Electric Start, Transfer Switch Ready - Blue
Customer Rating
4
Good Initial Experience
on November 13, 2021
Posted by: DanielRickerIII
from Issaquah, WA
Easy to assemble Footings and wheel. One footing nut may have hadd paint on the treads. Initially I thought I may have cross threaded the bolt. But the nuts are welded to the frame and then painted so I think there may have been paint.
We slightly difficult to identify the actual choke lever. There is a nice size sign, but the actual lever was small and behind a fuel line. A little red paint on the choke lever handle would have helped.
I like the controlled start. After pushing the start button, the unit tries multiple times automatically to start. I just wait for it to finally fire up.
I intentionally overloaded the unit to see what it would run. We are all electric and on a well so use lots of power. We could run the well, water heater, lights, electronics and two space heaters. We could not include the house electric heat but that was expected.
One concern when overloading is the breaker did not trip, but the unit bogged down and shut off. I would expect the main breaker on the generator to trip before the unit engine overloaded and shutdown.
I just received my new Westinghouse generator and setup was fairly easy with all the parts. Did exactly what the instructions said and it fired right up. I'm very happy with my purchase.
I bought this few months ago to power up my house. Instructions were very clear and instalation was very easy. I like the fact it can use dual fuel, and has remote start. It did great job powering my equipments and lighting. I highly Recommend it for all.