Bought April of 2020. Heavy yes , but what do you expect with a 420cc engine and 6.6 gal of fuel. Very Fuel efficient. Living in Maine and being amongst the trees we have to have a power back-up. Other makes don't really compare to the electronics in this. Gas gauge is a bit cheap, but works good enough. Bought the smart switch, but haven't installed yet. SW is hard to obtain right now. This will work like the expensive home models minus the high costs. Battery charger a plus. With it plugged in the control panel while letting it run every couple of months will maintain the Battery just fine. When putting together I put marine grease on exposed welds that didn't hold paint, but they were just small tack welds on frame cross members. Started right up after putting on the wheels. Don't need any Tim The Tool Man gruffy remarks to get sold on this. . My wife loves it. Its the REAL deal out there.
After receiving, assembly was a breeze. Impressed on how machine is designed to power up, then load up, appon start up and unload and power down. This machine is truly set up for standby backup power but, with portable capabilites. It also appears that they test fire this unit at the factory before they ship it, per the label on the oil fill port (stating they had drained the oil). Indicates to me that they are taking extra steps at making sure they are shipping a quality product.