Taking a litlle break from cars this week.

Just wondering if anyone had opinions on the Generac Brand and their portable generators.

TIA

What is your budget? Honda is the best, but quite spendy. I bought a HF generator for the house for the occasional power outage and it has been surprisingly good.

We have the $1K budget in mind. The genearc GP7500E is on sale and I can get it for $850+ tax.

this is for a 7500 watt model. anything in honda at that wattage raiting is in the ralm of $3k. not where I wanna be for a portable.

Now i did splurge last summer and spent $1k on my Honda push mower and cant agree with you more about the quality. i think thats why my wife love's her honda pilot!

BTW, my neighbor has a HF one that I've tapped into for the sump pump when the lights have gone out. other than being a royal pita to get started it does work.
And I think tahts a little 2500 watter

I have heard good about Generac... Personally, I want a big mofo run on propane. Never have to cycle the gas out.

I hear ya! we dont loose power that often though.

Lots to read up on with this buy. Don't want to spent my money foolishly.

Dollar for dollar there is a homelite model that looks to good to be true!

avoid anything with the name "homelite" on it!

I do have a homelite chainsaw, but it's a rare one - it runs.

95% of the time that I have either bought or used homelite stuff, it's been junk.

Funny....after I responded to your message I went outside to do some work so I fired up the generator. Hasn't been run since last summer and has 4 yr old gas in it (with stabil). Fired up first pull and ran great. I siphoned the old gas anyways and refilled.

Btw, I bet a Honda rating is still equivalent to a double rating of generac...buy once, cry once!

I have a Generac 4000w bought specifically to run my Lincoln 110v mig welder at the racetrack.

Rough guess is that it's 15 years old.

I drain the 10% ethanol in the spring bit it sits with a full tank all winter.

On the first start in the winter when the power goes out, it takes 4 pulls then starts afterwards on one.

I was too lazy to install the box in the house electrical system. I run 2, 50 ft. extensions upatairs when the power goes out and run my 60in big screen, laptop and a couple lights.

The only thing that's a mild annoyance is that Home D quit stocking the oil filter (not surprising), gotta get them on line.

The main reason I picked Generac is the pressurized oil system.

I'd buy another one.

My buddy (where I'm painting the 67) has one of their permanent built in units, never had a problem.

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Honda's are sweet but it's like buying a Snap On tool box, cost way too much for what you get.

Bill thanks for the info. I doubt teh stuff they sell now can hold a candle to the one you have.

i ended up buying the GP7500e on line about 15 min ago. $909 which is about $170 less than what it is when i's not on sale. i'll pick up tomorrow and as long as I dont put gas in it I can return if I get buyers remorse

That model seems to get very good reviews online. I'm sure you will be pleased and it should serve you well.