Great performance and exceptional engineering at a value
on February 10, 2018
Posted by: Sunshine State RVing
from South Florida
The iGen4500 was our choice after testing several inverter generators in the 3300-plus watt category. This was our fourth and final selection, as it serves the purpose of powering our travel trailer when boondocked and for quiet home backup during outages. The winning feature for the iGen4500 was the manual Efficiency Mode switch, which can be set to off when starting the RV's 13.5K BTU AC. It is sometimes desiirable (or necessary) to disable auto-idle when starting up high load demand appliances. This is not possible on many inverter gennys.
Fantastic product with all the nells and whistles! Well built and quiet running. Need to reverse rv plug as it is upside down! Super powerful and great design. Plugged in three block heaters and still haf power to spare! Impressed!!
Great design and control board. Started up the first time with no issues. Main concern is no manual choke. Yet instructions state it may be necessary to manually start and choke??? Had some scratches on the plastic from factory and rv plug g seems backwards. Appears well built. Still, very concerened about high altitude operation with no manual choke or a carb kit available at present.