Easy to start, even the first time and VERY quiet.
on November 24, 2018
Posted by: Gary the Cabinet Guy
from Alliance Ohip
We had a power outage for over 15 hours and this generator saved a freezer full of meat and all of our food in the refrigerator. Also kept our sump pump from failing.
Generator seems to work ok. started ok. Ran it and used it for a while to break in. When tried to start again took several hard pulls to get going. Hope it starts after setting a while. The oil fill port is hard to reach, have to get on knees and crouch underneath which will be a pain when using generator in snow/rain/ power outage which is likely scenario for use. Would be impossible to fill without the specially designed crooked funnel, so hope I don't lose that...where do I store the special generator oil funnel to remember where it is?? It comes with strange metal "shipping brackets" that have to be removed. They were mounted with very tight hard to reach bolts that stripped when using the tiny supplied wrench. Had to get out ratchet set and ratchet extension bar to get them off. Curses. That took longer than all the other assembly startup. As always, engineers should uncrate and assemble at least 20 of their own product using only the supplied instructions verbatim and not their own acquired intuition of the product.
I ordered this generator in preparation for hurricane season but shortly after buying it needed a generator to power a house that was having electrical problems. This generator ran for over three days, powered a large window AC unit, a fridge, and some power strips for chargers and such. It ran smooth and provided everything we needed. Can't beat that for the price. Great that it comes with the tools because the spark plug would be hard to get to otherwise. Handle is awesome for moving it around. Great product so far!