New and looking for a generator
Hello everyone. I'm buying my first travel trailer, a Forest River Cherokee Wolf Pup 16BHS. I am planning to do a lot of boondocking, and I want a generator. I want a small portable generator, but I d...
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I have to recommend the Westinghouse 2500 that can be handled by one person is quiet and has great reviews. I've been researching generators for over 10 years when the ONLY good ones available were the Honda and Yamaha. I almost went with one called Kipor out about 10 years ago and it was a Chinese rip off of the Honda. Honda made a boo boo and licensed their tech to a Chinese company that promptly began ripping them off. They spent years hunting them down and finally actually stopped them in China. I bet that wasn't cheap.
So, anyway, Westinghouse got back into the generator market about 10 years ago with at first a 2000 unit at a decent price about half of the Honda. I bought it and am still using it and it runs a 13,500 airco at 7,000 feet. After much research and prompting an engineer who was testing different units http://performanceresearch.us/padgett/ I found out by research and prompting an engineer to test them that Westinghouse was sitting on a bunch of legacy patents and essentially went back to the library of them and now is a big deal in the home generator market here about 10 years later. The big problem was quietness in inverter generators 10 years ago. Westinghouse had a counter-rotating fan patent that cancelled noise somehow. They also designed the engine internals using some proprietary tech something in the guts that addressed the surge on start up of like an air conditioner that shut others down. Now they upped the watts on their unit to 2500 surge and I think it is designed to find the sweet spot of being able to power most TT's, be quiet and be able to be handled by one person. And it's at a reasonable price with very high stars in all settings around customer satisfaction... https://www.lowes.com/pd/Westinghouse-iGen-2500-Watt-Inverter-Gasoline-Portable-Generator/1002780854?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-sol-_-bing-_-pla-_-240-_-1002780854-_-0&kpid&placeholder=null&ds_rl=1286981&msclkid=6f225dcdaa3b1de4e8993d622ac983e6&gclid=6f225dcdaa3b1de4e8993d622ac983e6&gclsrc=3p.ds
They also have a 4500 watt unit but if and when I jump again, I will likely look at two of the 2500's in parallel at not much more than the larger unit and still able to move the system around with one person. Much more flexibility with two units and redundancy. I'll start with one.
So, anyway, Westinghouse got back into the generator market about 10 years ago with at first a 2000 unit at a decent price about half of the Honda. I bought it and am still using it and it runs a 13,500 airco at 7,000 feet. After much research and prompting an engineer who was testing different units http://performanceresearch.us/padgett/ I found out by research and prompting an engineer to test them that Westinghouse was sitting on a bunch of legacy patents and essentially went back to the library of them and now is a big deal in the home generator market here about 10 years later. The big problem was quietness in inverter generators 10 years ago. Westinghouse had a counter-rotating fan patent that cancelled noise somehow. They also designed the engine internals using some proprietary tech something in the guts that addressed the surge on start up of like an air conditioner that shut others down. Now they upped the watts on their unit to 2500 surge and I think it is designed to find the sweet spot of being able to power most TT's, be quiet and be able to be handled by one person. And it's at a reasonable price with very high stars in all settings around customer satisfaction... https://www.lowes.com/pd/Westinghouse-iGen-2500-Watt-Inverter-Gasoline-Portable-Generator/1002780854?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-sol-_-bing-_-pla-_-240-_-1002780854-_-0&kpid&placeholder=null&ds_rl=1286981&msclkid=6f225dcdaa3b1de4e8993d622ac983e6&gclid=6f225dcdaa3b1de4e8993d622ac983e6&gclsrc=3p.ds
They also have a 4500 watt unit but if and when I jump again, I will likely look at two of the 2500's in parallel at not much more than the larger unit and still able to move the system around with one person. Much more flexibility with two units and redundancy. I'll start with one.
