Customer Reviews for Westinghouse - 12,500 Peak Watt Dual Fuel Portable Generator, Electric Start, Transfer Switch Ready - Blue
Customer Rating
5
Easy Peasy
on August 10, 2024
Posted by: Mary C
from Houston, Texas
After suffering without electricity in Houston after the May derecho and again in July following Beryl, I decided to invest in a generator. As a 71 year old woman, I knew nothing about generators. After speaking with my master electrician and finding out what I needed to power my home's central air and refrigerator plus a TV, I set to work finding the best product in my price range and the Westinghouse brand kept coming up with the best overall reviews so I took the plunge. The WGen9500DFc turned out to be more than I expected. My son-in-law had it set up within 15 minutes and I was able to easily maneuver it to the location I wanted. After following the easy step-by-step set-up instructions, the generator immediately started up and purred like a kitten. It's loud of course, but surprisingly not nearly as loud as my neighbor's! I am absolutely thrilled with this generator and I can honestly and without hesitation heartily recommend it to anyone looking for a generator.
Easy set up and started in like 2 seconds. Haven't had an outage to use it at full capacity, but looks like it will do the job I need, such as running household necessary things like a small AC, lights, fridge, freezer etc. Moves around easily, and the dual fuel will really be a great help. Seems to be a great product. Actually, I hope I never have to use it at any length, but that is an unrealistic thought as we have power outages from storms etc.
So far I've only needed to fire this up once, but it gave me no trouble in doing so. It ran fine for the few hours we needed on about a gallon and a half of perhaps 6-month old fuel with no complaints. Glad to have this in my arsenal. The ease of use and duel fuel are really what sold me on this.
We brought this generator to operate our food trailer for summer events after our old one died out. What took us so long, because this is what we have been needing.