Customer Reviews for Westinghouse - 12,500 Peak Watt Dual Fuel Portable Generator, Electric Start, Transfer Switch Ready - Blue
Customer Rating
4
Nice except!
on March 16, 2021
Posted by: RED104
from Illinois
Nice quality generator but one of the axel hole brackets were bent and had to hire a welder heat and bend back into shape before the axel bolt could be installed !
We bought this to power our home and guest house during an emergency. We looked at large (15kw) whole home systems, but couldn't justify those at 10X the cost of this 9500kw unit. We have a deep well pump and our guest house has electric heat and this can run both houses plus the well. I manually switch the two electric hot water heaters on at night when other high draw devices are not running, but otherwise every breaker is on and this just handles it. The set up of the machine was easy, although there was more play than I would liked to see on the shaft supporting the wheels so I added a second washer next to the cotter pin to reduce wear. The only thing that jumped out at me as odd were during the setup and initial operation. Their user manual is really complete and quite good but it omits a few basic things. It's fairly obvious to anyone mechanically inclined that they drained the oil prior to shipment, but the manual doesn't get to adding oil until page 18, and further seems to omit the oil capacity. The included 1qt oil is the correct capacity (actually it was not quite enough as 1qt only got it just barely above the Fill line). I liked that the manual spells out that synthetic 5w-30 is ok. Even though I didn't need it, the Spanish part of the manual didn't seem to have page numbers.
Lots of options, remote start and duel fuel (DF) work great. Pull handle and wheels make it easy to locate it where you want it, although it is heavy so you might need help pulling up an incline. It was easy to install the feet and wheels.