Customer Reviews for Westinghouse - 5,000-Watt Gas Powered Portable Inverter Generator with Remote Electric Start, LED Data Center - Blue
Customer Rating
5
Big power/ compact pkg
on April 16, 2021
Posted by: BeBe
from Houston, Texas
Arrived very securely packed. Product is well designed and easy to use. A lot of power in a small package. Looking forward to having power during hurricane season.
When up around 7500 feet the automatic choke puts out toon much fuel and the unit will not start. I have to remove cover and manually adjust the choke to get it to start. The manual adjustment means the remote start does not work. I am hoping tech support has a solution which retains the remote start function.
I purchased the generator online and it arrived today. I had some trouble with getting it running correctly but it finally started idling smoothly. I added the full container of oil it came with just like it said, put about a gallon of fuel in it and started it up. Initially it smoked pretty bad and ran rough. I turned it off and back on a few times and let it run for about 30 minutes. My guess is that it had a small amount of gas left in it for awhile from when it was tested at the manufacturer and it was just a small amount bad gas in the system. Hopefully it continues to run smoothly.
We purchased this a month ago for our new camper and love how easy it is to start and how quiet it is! Love that we can use this in our home as well if we were to lose electricity! Lots of power for a compact machine!