new westinghouse generator 3700/4500

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Westinghouse manufactures some of the world's largest hydroelectric generators -- like one hundred megawatts. The vastness between these monsters and small generators is so large that even if consumers should grow violently opposed to Westinghouse as a brand name it would little affect the parent that signed an agreement that Westinghouse would not sue them for brand name misappropriation. That's exactly how it works.

Mex,

The "Westinghouse" of old that you are aware of is not the "Westinghouse" of today.

Back in the late 1990s Westinghouse started to spin off and/or sell off parts and pieces until (WABCO/WESCO. Westinghouse office furniture systems, Communications (IE "Group W" which was a massive group of CBS TV/Radio affiliates like KDKA), TVSC which was a huge satellite video/audio up/downlink system, Unimation which was a robotics division and so on) the ONLY thing that was left was the NUCLEAR POWER group.

NO BODY wanted that hot potato and eventually Toshiba Corp (yeah the Toshiba the chip maker, hard drive make, that Toshiba) thought that at the rock bottom price of $5.4 BILLION would somehow be a good fit in their company in 2006. That purchase completely ended the offical Westinghouse Corp..

That purchase has continued to haunt Toshiba to the point a yr ago or so they were considering selling off their money making chips/memory/hd division to prop up the company..

The Nuclear division ONLY designs and services commercial nuclear power plants is bleeding money out everywhere..

They are a former shell of what they were..

The CONSUMER SIDE is nothing more than a shell corp that simply sells the Westinghouse name to be slapped on anything that may make a profit. They simply license the name to the highest bidder. They do not make nor service consumer equipment.. That is farmed out to third party folks if you are lucky that they still support it..

The reason I know a lot about the "W" is back in the late 1980s I worked at the downtown Pittsburgh HQ for a short stint..

After the Toshiba purchase, they moved the Nuclear division out of the city of Pittsburgh and since then it has been moved another time to Warrendale PA which is about 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh..

My Company has a office building so close to the Westinghouse building you can spit on it..

Westinghouse has laid off thousands of Nuclear division personal over the last 3yrs that they have too much office space and are now trying to sublet the space.. Some of the local engineers that lost their jobs have been hired by my company..

This is why I caution folks considering a Westinghouse gen, it is nothing special it is simply a rebadged Chinese import Honda clone gen. It is not designed, made or sourced in the US and is 100% Chinese parts assembled by Chinese people. Try finding a dealer or parts department for repairs or parts. At nearly $1000 there most likely IS better Chinese import gens at lower price points (Champion was mentioned, they do have parts/service support).