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Best Portable Generator 7500W Review

Looking to buy a 7500w + portable gas generator for my house as back up for power outages. I prefer Honda or other japanese makers, but going straight Honda seems to be too pricey. Admittedly this will get used very rarely.

It seems that idle control is a nice feature available on the more expensive units that lowers noise and increases run time.

I wanted to stay away from Briggs & Stratton, but I did read that one of their larger units has a Mitsubishi Vanguard engine.

There also seems to be alot of private label stuff which I think is mostly Chinese gear, are those units a headache?

Any advice? Experience with one unit over another.

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Best Portable Generator 7500W Review

Since I started this thread, I will add that I am only interested in new portable gas powered equipment. I'd like to spend under $2000, and the closer to $1000 the better.

Anyone use Pramac generators, they come with Honda engines which I like.

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My input is Unless you use it lots, buy a cheapie like the Coleman.Keep fresh gas at hand and run it for a few minutes every couple of months under load.Put the money you saved in a safe place and keep it for your retirement or take a nice vacation.

On that note I saw a Homelite 5500 at Home Depot that had a 'Yamaha' engine in it for $599.00. Great price a little less watts than I wanted, no auto low idle control, but great price and Yamaha is a good engine, the straight Yamaha gens are some of th most expensive.

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Since I started this thread, I will add that I am only interested in new portable gas powered equipment. I'd like to spend under $2000, and the closer to $1000 the better. Anyone use Pramac generators, they come with Honda engines which I like.

On that note I saw a Homelite 5500 at Home Depot that had a 'Yamaha' engine in it for $599.00. Great price a little less watts than I wanted, no auto low idle control, but great price and Yamaha is a good engine, the straight Yamaha gens are some of th most expensive.

Since I started this thread, I will add that I am only interested in new portable gas powered equipment. I'd like to spend under $2000, and the closer to $1000 the better.

Anyone use Pramac generators, they come with Honda engines which I like.