Skibane wrote:
When an all-new Champion or Predator with the latest doo-dads costs only 1/5th as much as a stodgy old Honda, you can afford to upgrade when something new comes along.
First of all, we're talking generators here, not Iphones...."something new"? ROFLMAO. It's a tool, if it starts and puts out juice like it should, how much more totally awesome can a new model be? That was the funniest justification for buying Chinesium I've heard in a while.
And your math is horrible. The super ching chong cheapo generators are just under 1/2 of what a Honda/Yami cost. And the better "quality" ones like Champion are 1/2 or little over 1/2 the cost. 20% vs 50% is mucho different.
Noone is stopping anyone from buying a Firman, Wen, Westinghouse, wannabeYamaha, Predator, Champion or any other.
Some of guys are too funny!
Funny story, one of my crews just found a Westinghouse, I think, or maybe it was the "Onan" model 2kw inverter genny in one of our conexes. Of course it wouldn't start, because it probably sat full of cheap gas since last year or god knows when.
Guys sent me a pic of it. Looks like new.
(Probably someone needed another genny one night at work at 8pm and ran to Costco and bought one.)
I told the supt hey find a small engine shop to get it running. Guy said he called 3 or 4 places in Spokane and all of them said, don't bother bringing it in, we don't work on those.