Generators - Whatcha got?

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

Wow, some of you have gone quite overkill on yours, 7500-10000, very huge producers.

Mine doubles as a truck mounted welder

5000W Champion. I think been a couple years bought it to use for work purposes but now it sits covered and ready for use service it every year sits with every little gas in it as when gas evaporates it leaves a very hard shall-lack on and in everything. it does everything I need it to and we can still watch satellite TV kids love that feature. some lights and my tanks works great.

Bill

[dsaundry]

Mine has to power up my shop as well, thats why we went 7500w. It will power up the house too, haven't figured out what will happen if the power goes out in both places...

[MitchM]

I put in one of those whole house generators from Costco. We've had snowstorms here with no snowplow for 3 days. I used to use a 6500w gas generator, but 5 gallons of gas only lasts about 10 hours.
It has an auto transfer switch and runs on natural gas.
I think it's 16,000w and was the price of a big skimmer and some lights....

[russp]

I picked up a small 1000w from Napa , P3 I think.
It is 1000w & runs my tank no problem . It was under $200

[StirCrazy]

4000W Champion, from costco 225.00 when on sale 300 normaly.

works great and goes camping also

Steve

[Skimmerking]

I have a 400W UPS from Canadian Tire. Power failures what is that. We Don't get them here in Brandon, and we only pay .587 cents per KW so to heck with you tree hugger's lol hello flatlands

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by MitchM

I put in one of those whole house generators from Costco. We've had snowstorms here with no snowplow for 3 days. I used to use a 6500w gas generator, but 5 gallons of gas only lasts about 10 hours.
It has an auto transfer switch and runs on natural gas.
I think it's 16,000w and was the price of a big skimmer and some lights....

Didn't know you could get those thru Costco. Is that an online order? Never saw one in the Kelowna warehouse.

[PoonTang]

I actually have 2. a 650w honda that only weighs 40 lbs and runs for hours on a liter of fuel. Its enough to run all of the essentials on the tank and is super quiet when running just outside the sliding glass door. I also have a 2150w crappy tire model that really is just a rebadged mitsubishi Not so quiet or frugal but will run the whole tank + other stuff. I really bought this one for running stuff in my RV tho.

[MitchM]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Didn't know you could get those thru Costco. Is that an online order? Never saw one in the Kelowna warehouse.

The Calgary south warehouse had 4 on the shelf, 1 week later there was only the demo left, which I got. They went pretty fast.
Home Depot sells the same Generac generators, but the Costco price was $300 - $400 cheaper.