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Best Portable Generator 7500W Review
How much can you justify spending, that ultimately may dictate how "good" it's going to be. In my experience the "pick up a cheap used unit on the second hand market" doesn't exist as you have to be part of that market on a daily basis to find what you are looking for. It took me 8 years of sporadically going to auctions etc to get a decent used PHD and that's only because I was not really in the market for one and just happened to be there when one went for less than $200. Other than that most of my stuff is bought at fair market value (used and new) and never really seems cheap to me. I would expect to pay around $1000 for what you are spec'ing. Also since they are used so seldom why do you need the most durable engine on the market, seems to me like it would never get more than a couple hundred hours on it, it will rust ect long before the engine wears out.
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Best Portable Generator 7500W Review
I have a 13.5kW PTO generator for the house. On top of the generator consider the following purchases:
Stand or trailer for the generator: $ 200
Transfer switch for power: $ 110
Cable from generator to house (sufficiently sized): $150
Appropriate receptacles at each end of cable: $90
3R enclosure for electricity inlet: $40
Independent frequency and voltage meter (more later): $100
Misc supplies: $20
Labor to set it all up (5 hours @ 25/hour): $125
WOW you are up over $800.
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Best Portable Generator 7500W Review
I bought the following from Northern Tool: NorthStar PTO Generator — 13,000 Watt, 24 HP Required
The idiot gauge on this unit is hopeless. I have a standalone quality frequency / voltage meter that plugs into two receptacles (L1 and L2) inside the house. I set the tractor throttle using that to get as close to 60 Hz as possible. I can then see the quality of the power while I am using it in the house (as opposed to outside in the cold and snow where the tractor is). The idiot gauge would have me running near 68 Hz and I would be just in the "green". Don't rely on them they are guesstimates and are not properly calibrated anyway. They have to make em cheap as no one forks out for "expensive" generators so the add on components are pathetic. Speed of PTO is directly related to frequency of power generated. This fact was kindly supplied by an article Murf mentioned on a generator quality power thread some years back.
Oh forgot to include driveline from Tractor to generator ($90)
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